[rt-devel] First attempt at importing

[Jesse]

These fixes have been applied to RT currently in cvs. they'll be in 1.3.95.
I look forward to hearing how the import goes with 1.3.95.

        -j


On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:45:34AM -0700, Bob Finch wrote:
> Tried importing a 8000 ticket RT1 database yesterday using rt-1-3-90.
> 
> I'm running Postgres on another box and found that bin/initacls.Pg is
> missing the -h option:
> 
> *** initacls.Pg-orig	Tue Jun  5 18:14:50 2001
> --- initacls.Pg	Tue Jun  5 18:15:27 2001
> ***************
> *** 14,18 ****
>   export PATH
>   
>   echo "Enter the postgres administrator's database password to create a new user for rt"
> ! psql -d $DATABASENAME -f $DATABASEACLS -U $DATABASEADMIN
>   
> --- 14,18 ----
>   export PATH
>   
>   echo "Enter the postgres administrator's database password to create a new user for rt"
> ! psql -h $HOSTNAME -d $DATABASENAME -f $DATABASEACLS -U $DATABASEADMIN
>   
> 
> My RT1 database has tickets imported from Req -- import-1.0-to-2.0
> didn't like the "import" transaction type.  I changed it to treat
> "import" like "create".  I'm not sure if it's correct, but it seems to
> work.
> 
> ***************
> *** 502,507 ****
> --- 502,511 ----
>   	    $load_content = 1;
>   	    $trans_args{'Type'} = "Create";
>   	} 
> + 	elsif ( $row->{type} eq 'import' ) {
> + 	    $load_content = 1;
> + 	    $trans_args{'Type'} = "Create";
> + 	} 
>   	elsif ( $row->{type} eq 'status' ) {
>   	    $trans_args{'Type'} = "Status";
>   	    $trans_args{'Field'} = "Status";
> 
> There were a number of warnings in the log that I haven't had a chance
> to track down yet.  These two appeared once near the start:
> 
> Odd number of elements in hash assignment at /usr/local/rt/lib/RT/User.pm line 538.
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/DBIx/SearchBuilder/Record/Cachable.pm line 188.
> 
> The following errors frequently occur while importing tickets:
> 
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/rt/lib/RT/Ticket.pm line 397, <FILE> chunk 521.
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/rt/lib/RT/Ticket.pm line 409, <FILE> chunk 521.
> RT::Ticket=HASH(0x881b9c8) ->Create called with an unknown datatype for Owner: . Defaulting to Nobody.
> 
> and:
> 
> RT::Ticket=HASH(0x87d3f6c) user sharris(4) was proposed as a ticket owner but has no rights to own tickets in this queue
> 
> 
> It appears that user acls were not imported correctly.  The tickets in
> the database look OK but I can't access them from the web ui.  Sounds
> like this may be fixed already, I'll try again with the current
> snapshot this afternoon.
> 
> -- Bob
> 
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