Hi Calle Yeah, I think its obvious from the quick emails we are getting that we should not remove it. I would be great to have a proper rollback feature, but right now this won't be that easy to add.
(I am talking about metadata only though, you seem to also mention aggregate/event data? those importers are not scheduled to be rewritten, and will behave as today) -- Morten On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Morten, > > Dropping the dry run is OK if, and I stress if, the import process itself > becomes more transparent and step-wise. Basically this means > 1. > Display new records coming in, with the ability to remove all or some from > import > 2. > Display updated records coming in and the equivalent existing records, > with the ability to remove all or some from import/updating. > > The fundamental problem with DHIS2 imports are that they are "black > boxes", you cannot see what's happening until after it's done. Without even > the dry run, your only "Safety net" is to back up the whole database just > before importing - which is tricky to do in a production environment when > manager A imports data while user B,C,D, and E are capturing data directly. > > Regards > Calle > > On 2 February 2016 at 10:15, Morten Olav Hansen <morte...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> I'm currently in the process of re-writing our DXF2 metadata importer, >> and was wondering if anyone is actually using the dryRun option? its adds >> quite a bit of complexity to the code, so it will be added only to the new >> importer if people are actually using it for imports >> >> -- >> Morten >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > -- > > ******************************************* > > Calle Hedberg > > 46D Alma Road, 7700 Rosebank, SOUTH AFRICA > > Tel/fax (home): +27-21-685-6472 > > Cell: +27-82-853-5352 > > Iridium SatPhone: +8816-315-19119 > > Email: calle.hedb...@gmail.com > > Skype: calle_hedberg > > ******************************************* > >
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