Import / Export Schema

[willow9886]

People are having to recreate their attributes when moving environments (e.g. dev to prod). Would be nice if we provided a feature to export / importing all attributes as a file via an ldif.

Backup schema, and import schema in order to make it easier to move from dev to qa to prod, etc.

[shekhar16]

@willow9886 there few changes we made on attribute registration i.e #339 and they are in Yuriy's plate to verify it.
Lets wait to finish attribute registration,so that the things will be clear to import/export bunch of attributes from/to ldap.

[shekhar16]

[shekhar16]

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[yurem]

it's very powerful functionality. Is it check if it imports only attributes?

[willow9886]

Very cool! cc @mzico @aliaksander-samuseu

@jschristie : I'll make a note about adding this to docs.

[mzico]

@willow9886: very nice. We can QA if required.

Couple of questions:

• I think we might need it when we upgrade from 2.4.x to 3.0.x, right?
• If yes, do we have procedure available for such upgrade?
• If no, then is it necessary when we will re-install a new server with same build ( say: old server is 3.0.0 and installed new server with 3.0.1 from setup.properties.last and other backup directory from old server )?

[shekhar16]

Presently it is supporting for all branches. And I m working for export LDIF functionality.

[shekhar16]

Now it will allow to import only attributes.

[yurem]

I've review code and updated it. It's ready for QA now. It's allows to load attributes meta-data only.
I offer to open another issue because this part requires more changes to make it useful:

• There is not export attributes functionality. User should be able to select attributes definitions needed to export.
• There is no validation during import that attribute with specified name already exists.
• Import not updates attribute DN. It should update atttributes DN to conform new org_inum

[shekhar16]

Export attributes ldif is completed.

[yurem]

It looks almost ready to use. The one question which bother me is:

• Import not updates attribute DN. It should update atttributes DN to conform new org_inum

It's useful for case when we do export on one machine but import tham on another one with.

[shekhar16]

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