Dspace-python-api

used for blackbox testing, data-ingestion procedures

How to migrate CLARIN-DSpace5.* to CLARIN-DSpace7.*

Important:

Make sure that your email server is NOT running because some of the endpoints that are used are sending emails to the input email addresses. For example, when using the endpoint for creating new registration data, there exists automatic function that sends email, what we don't want because we use this endpoint for importing existing data.

grep mail.server.disabled local.cfg
mail.server.disabled=true

docker compose -p d7ws exec dspace /dspace/bin/dspace dsprop -p mail.server.disabled
true

Prerequisites:

1. Install CLARIN-DSpace7.*. (postgres, solr, dspace backend) - you can use docker compose. At this point keep your local.cfg minimal, you'll modify it when the migration is done.

2. clone these sources

   2.1. Clone python-api: https://github.com/ufal/dspace-python-api (branch main)

   2.2. Clone submodules: git submodule update --init libs/dspace-rest-python/

3. Get database dump (old CLARIN-DSpace) and unzip it into input/dump directory in dspace-python-api project.

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4. Go to the dspace/bin in dspace7 installation and run the command dspace database migrate force (force because of local types). NOTE: dspace database migrate force creates default database data that may be not in database dump, so after migration, some tables may have more data than the database dump. Data from database dump that already exists in database is not migrated.

5. Create an admin by running the command dspace create-administrator in the dspace/bin

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Prepare dspace-python-api project for migration

:~$ ls -R ./input

input:
dump

input/dump:
clarin-dspace.sql  clarin-utilities.sql

• Create CLARIN-DSpace5.* databases (dspace, utilities) from dump. Either:
  • run scripts/start.local.dspace.db.bat or use scipts/init.dspacedb5.sh directly with your database.
  • do the import manually

     docker compose -p d7ws exec dspacedb createdb -p 5430 --username=dspace --owner=dspace --encoding=UNICODE clarin-dspace
     docker compose -p d7ws exec dspacedb createdb -p 5430 --username=dspace --owner=dspace --encoding=UNICODE clarin-utilities
     cat input/dump/clarin-utilities.sql | docker compose -p d7ws exec -T dspacedb psql -p 5430 --username=dspace clarin-utilities
     cat input/dump/clarin-dspace.sql | docker compose -p d7ws exec -T dspacedb psql -p 5430 --username=dspace clarin-dspace
    

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• install dependencies for this project (ideally in a python venv)

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

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• update project_settings.py with the db connection and admin user details
  • You can use an internal backend IP
  • With "testing": True the mechanism described in ufal#4 (comment) should kick in (if you also have the mentioned file)

    docker compose -p d7ws exec dspace bash -c "mkdir -p /tmp/asset && pushd /tmp/asset && curl -LJO https://github.com/user-attachments/files/21145749/57024294293009067626820405177604023574.zip && mkdir -p /dspace/assetstore/57/02/42 && zcat 570242* > /dspace/assetstore/57/02/42/57024294293009067626820405177604023574 && popd && rm -rf /tmp/asset"
    

    You don't want this in the final migration
  • Think about the ignore section, usually you don't want to ignore eperson 198 (but you might have other that you won't be migrating)
  • If you were using many custom licenses and their text was under xmlui/page you can use the licenses hash to do an automatic udpate of the urls

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• Make sure, your backend configuration (local.cfg) includes all handle prefixes, that you use, in the handle.additional.prefixes property, e.g.,handle.additional.prefixes = 11858, 11234, 11372, 11346, 20.500.12801, 20.500.12800. Get them from the old database:

  clarin-dspace=# select distinct(split_part(handle, '/', 1)) as prefix from handle;
  

• This project only migrates the data stored in the database(s) not the actual files. Copy assetstore from dspace5 to dspace7 (for bitstream import). assetstore is in the folder where you have installed DSpace dspace/assetstore.

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Run the migration

• NOTE: database must be up to date (dspace database migrate force must be called in the dspace/bin)
• NOTE: dspace server must be running
• run command cd ./src && python repo_import.py
• check the logs (by default) in __logs for CRITICAL, ERROR or WARNING and especially when you see 500 errors check also the dspace.log (on backend in /dspace/log/dspace.log)
• if you need to rerun the migration you simply drop (including the volumes) the compose project (or just the database as suggested in ufal#4 (comment)) and recreate the admin account etc. (if your dumps are in dspacedb container you'll need to recreate those as well). Also consider wiping the migration logs and temp files.

  docker compose -p d7ws down --volumes
  docker compose --env-file .env -p d7ws -f docker/docker-compose.yml -f docker/docker-compose-rest.yml up -d
  docker compose --env-file .env -p d7ws -f docker/docker-compose.yml -f docker/docker-compose-rest.yml -f docker/cli.yml run --rm dspace-cli create-administrator -e test@test.edu -f Sys -l Admin -p password -c en -o UFAL
  docker compose -p d7ws exec dspace bash -c "mkdir -p /tmp/asset && pushd /tmp/asset && curl -LJO https://github.com/user-attachments/files/21145749/57024294293009067626820405177604023574.zip && mkdir -p /dspace/assetstore/57/02/42 && zcat 570242* > /dspace/assetstore/57/02/42/57024294293009067626820405177604023574 && popd && rm -rf /tmp/asset"

  rm -rf __logs/ src/__temp/ input/tempdbexport_v*

!!!Migration notes:!!!

• The values of table attributes that describe the last modification time of dspace object (for example attribute last_modified in table Item) have a value that represents the time when that object was migrated and not the value from migrated database dump.
• If you don't have valid and complete data, not all data will be imported.
• check if license link contains XXX. This is of course unsuitable for production run!

Check import consistency

Use tools/repo_diff utility, see README.