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[EP-tech] Re: Importing files from another system

Hi Seb,
Thanks for this - but how much of the data structure should I include when trying to make a new eprint?
E.g. I don't have an eprintid, docid, fileid, so can't include them.

I /could/ supply a mime_type, but should eprints be able to work this out from the file?
Should the filename be calculated from the <url>, or do I have to specify this? (I see some fun with XSLT coming my way :o)

>From a bit more testing, I think this is the minimal set of data to get a file into the system, from the local file system (although you'd want to map more data in there if you had it!):

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<eprints xmlns='http://eprints.org/ep2/data/2.0'>
  <eprint>
    <documents>
      <document>
        <files>
          <file>
            <datasetid>document</datasetid>
            <filename>thumb.jpg</filename>
            <url>file:///tmp/files/thumb.jpg</url>
          </file>
        </files>
        <format>image</format>
        <security>public</security>
        <main>thumb.jpg</main>
      </document>
    </documents>
    <eprint_status>archive</eprint_status>
    <userid>1</userid>
    <type>image</type>
    <creators>
      <item>
        <name>
          <family>test</family>
          <given>test</given>
        </name>
        <id>test@test.com</id>
      </item>
    </creators>
    <title>test</title>
  </eprint>
</eprints>

Hope that helps someone in the future - and thanks for your help today!
John

-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Sebastien Francois
Sent: 21 June 2012 15:08
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Importing files from another system

Hi John,

See an example attached - tested on 3.3.9, imported this way:

bin/import <REPO_ID> --enable-file-imports --enable-web-imports --user 1 
--verbose eprint XML ./export2.xml

Seb.

PS: in the attached XML, I replaced the URL of my dev machine with 
__REPO_URL__, change this to your repository URL.

On 21/06/12 14:55, John Salter wrote:
> Yep - that didn't work either :o\
>
> According to this:
> http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Import_From_URL
> I was also missing a<files>  around the<file>.
> I've added that and re-tried all the options, so far none work :o\
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jose Martin
> Sent: 21 June 2012 14:40
> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Importing files from another system
>
> Have you tried for local files
>
> 	<url>file:///path_to_file</url>
>
> ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Salter
> Sent: 21 June 2012 14:24
> To: 'eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk'
> Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Importing files from another system
>
> Nothing silly in the verbose output.
>
> I can wget the file over http (when trying the http method), but even using the file from the local filesystem doesn't work :o\
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Yuri
> Sent: 21 June 2012 13:48
> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Importing files from another system
>
> run the command with --verbose --verbose and try to see what happen. Can you go to port 80 from the server to another server? Check your firewall settings.
>
> Il 21/06/2012 14:22, John Salter ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to import files from another system, into EPrints.
>> I can either copy the files onto the server, or make them available over http.
>>
>> In the XML, I've tried specifying (in an<eprints><eprint>   node)
>> <document>
>> 	<file href="/path/to/my.pdf" />
>> </document>
>>    - or -
>> <document>
>> 	<file>
>> 		<url>http://url.of/my.pdf</url>
>> 	</file>
>> </document>
>>
>> And importing with:
>>> bin/import ARCHIVENAME --enable-file-imports --enable-web-imports
>>> --user 1 archive XML test.xml
>> Both import the metadata from the XML OK, but neither option attaches the file to the eprint.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong - or will this even work?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John
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