Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of LEGACY - CaTissueBulkOperations


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11/26/10 14:12:50 (13 years ago)
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jeff.lusted
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  • LEGACY - CaTissueBulkOperations

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    11== caTissue Bulk Operations ==
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     3These are very high level points. I'll expand upon them as I learn more. But feel free to add/make changes, please.
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    35It is my understanding that bulk operations can be invoked either from the caTissue web interface or from the command line. In both cases the invocation is just a trigger mechanism. A piece of caTissue functionality then picks up a local CSV file (a file with a list of comma separated values) that depicts all the changes you want to make; ie: these are the bulk part of the operation. There is another file in an XML format that in its entirety does three things:
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    57  * Describes the comma separated file
    6   * Describes the caTissue domain objects that the changes will apply to. Note the plural: domain objects.
     8  * Describes the caTissue domain objects that the changes will apply to. Note the plural: domain objects. It could be one, but it can be many.
    79  * Connects the csv format to the domain objects, so basically what change goes where and to what.
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    911Both files are sent to the caTissue application for processing.
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     13=== Mapping File ===
     14This is my name for the XML file.
     15  * Is there an XML schema file for this?
     16  * It seems to me (as per the client API) there is a heavy premium on knowing how the domain objects fit together.
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     18=== CSV File ===
     19I haven't seen any other formats. Well, it's unlikely there are any given the complication off designing a Mapping File. If we are talking of driving this process via an Excel spreadsheet, we would need some way of converting a spreadsheet into an csv file.
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     21Do we have an idea of the size of a file?...
     22  * How many lines?
     23  * How many values per line?
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     25=== Transactions Again ===
     26What can we assume about a bulk operation:
     27  * One line within the csv file = one transaction?
     28  * The whole csv file = one transaction?