Configuring SPADE to use a customized metadata
This article explains how to configure a SPADE deployment so that data it uses a customized MetaData class rather than the default, which simply contains the date and time that the semaphore file was originally created.
Pre-requisites
It is assumed that the nest-spade-war project has been install and running as outlined here, and that the log output of the JBoss server can be seen in a second terminal.
It is also helpful if you have at least read the Local Warehouse scenario in order to familiarize yourself with the concepts discussed there as they will be re-used here. Moreover, as this scenario builds upon the Non-dropbox Data scenario to provide data, you should work through that one first.
Also, as in that scenario, the following environmental variables need to be set. They are show here being set to their standard values.
export JBOSS_HOME=${HOME}/server/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final
export SPADE_VERSION=2.2.0
export SPADE_WAR_HOME=${HOME}/nest-spade-war-${SPADE_VERSION}Configuration
SPADE can use any arbitrary class to carry a file's metadata provided it implements the gov.lbl.nest.spade.registry.Metadata tag interface. However you need to provide an accompanying gov.lbl.nest.spade.services.MetadataManager implementation for SPADE to be able to use the class. Details about the MetadataManager are provided elsewhere, suffice that you need to know such a class exists. The standard distribution of SPADE contains an alternate Metadata implementation, along with its accompanying MetadataManager implementation. In order to use this alternate version you need to edit the src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/beans.xml in your copy of the nest-spade-war project and add the following to the bean element in that file.
<alternatives>
<class>gov.lbl.nest.spade.metadata.Metadata2ManagerImpl</class>
</alternatives>
You then need to rebuild the deployment WAR file using the following command.
cd ${SPADE_WAR_HOME}
mvn -DuseExampleDS clean package
cd -Execution
Execution of this scenario is the same as the scenario upon which it is built, namely the Non-dropbox scenario. The following commands show how to run the whole scenario.
${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/jboss-cli.sh --connect --command="deploy \
--name=spade.war ${SPADE_WAR_HOME}/target/spade-${SPADE_VERSION}.war"
mkdir -p ~/spade/other/directory/mock
cat > ~/spade/other/directory/mock/mock.7.data << EOF
put some junk in here
EOF
echo "../../other/directory/mock/mock.7.data" > ~/spade/dropbox/mock/mock.7.nem
${SPADE_WAR_HOME}/src/main/bash/localScan
# Wait for the "finisher" for this file to stop, e.g. 5 seconds
sleep 5
${SPADE_WAR_HOME}/src/main/bash/inboundScan
# Wait for the "finisher" for this file to stop, e.g. 5 seconds
sleep 5
${SPADE_WAR_HOME}/src/main/bash/sendConfirmations
find ~/spade/warehouse -name "mock.7.*"You can inspect the new metadata using the following command and will see that the metadata now contains a sourcefile element that contains the path where the shipping SPADE instance found the data and a sourcehost element containing the node on which the shipping SPADE instance was executing.
xmllint -format `find ~/spade/warehouse -name "mock.7.meta.xml"`