[PATCH] CLI Interface to the Sugar Datastore

[Michael Vorburger]

Hello,

Attached a patch for copy-to-journal.py which adds auto-detection of
the MIME type! Hope you find this useful. This has been suggested in
the thread "How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?", and
may be elsewhere, and probably makes sense in order to make
copy-to-journal more end-user friendly.

Sorry for not providing a real git diff; this form was easier for me.
I'll get to git, promise. (Actually - how does one get a git account
on dev.laptop.org anyways? Just asking.)

Once you commit this,
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Copy_to_and_from_the_Journal needs to be
updated. I can do it if you want after you've applied the diff to git.


A MIME stuff unrelated problem report / question: With big (e.g. 70
MB) files, I get a "Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not
receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did
not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply,
the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." from
copy-to-journal. Should some DBus timeout (what? where? how?) be
increased somehow for this to work more reliably?

Also noticed that Journal or the API isn't particularly
"transactional" - that's probably normal and doesn't surprised you
guys, or is this not normal? (The presumably only partially imported
file shows up in the Journal... I would have expected it not to, as
the 'import' failed with an error.)

Minor: The attached patch also has a really minor bugfix, destroy
should be in finally; found that when looking into above NoReply
Error.

Regards,
Michael


On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 6:14 PM, Phil Bordelon <phil at thenexusproject.org> wrote:
> Reinier Heeres wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I just added a simple script to do this to the ticket about fetching
>  > objects from the datastore (#5571).
>  >
>  > Please feel free to extend it!
>
>  Thanks for proving me wrong on the complexity front. :)
>
>  I didn't change much of your code here; I just spruced up the text to
>  look more like copy-to-journal, and added comments throughout so that
>  later generations of code-spelunkers can understand what the heck we
>  are doing in the program.
>
>  Thanks so much for taking the time to do this; copy-from-journal is
>  easily one of the most requested features in #olpc-help.
>
>
>
>  Phil
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