Metadata Export and Import (1.1)

DHIS 2 Tracker Program related metadata can be exported and imported from and into the Adapter.

Metadata Export

One or more Tracker Program including its direct and indirect dependencies are exported. The export will include alls data that is required to setup the Tracker Programs again. The metadata export will be in JSON format. Compression of exported metadata is not yet supported.

curl -u admin:district http://localhost:8081/api/metadata

The following query parameters are supported.

Parameter	Default Value	Description
trackerProgramId	All	The Adapter IDs of one or more Tracker Programs that should be exported.
excludedSystemUri	None	The system URIs of one or more system for which no codes should be exported (e.g. http://snomed.info/sct)
includeTrackedEntities	false	Specifies if tracked entity mappings should be included in the export. Tracked entity mappings require often profiling and should normally not overridden on other systems.
includeResourceMappings	false	Specifies if resource mappings should be included in the export. Resource mappings require often profiling and should normally not overridden on other systems.
download	false	Specifies if the resulting JSON file will be offered as a download by the browser. Otherwise the content of the export may be shown in the browser windows.

Metadata Import

Previously exported metadata can be imported again. Specific parts of the exported metadata can be skipped.

curl -u admin:district -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -i -d "@metadata.json" http://localhost:8081/api/metadata

The following query parameters are supported.

Parameter	Default Value	Description
updateResourceMappings	false	Specifies if resource mappings should be updated. If this is disabled, only new resource mappings will be imported.
updateCodes	false	Specifies if code related metadata should be updated. If this is disabled, only new code related metadata will be imported.
updateScripts	false	Specifies if script related metadata should be updated. If this is disabled, only new script related metadata will be imported.