CGSpace Notes

Documenting day-to-day work on the CGSpace repository.

CGIAR Library Migration

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Rough notes for importing the CGIAR Library content. It was decided that this content would go to a new top-level community called CGIAR System Organization.

Pre-migration Technical TODOs

Things that need to happen before the migration:

  • Set up nginx redirects for URLs like:

Migration

Process for the actual migration:

  • Export all top-level communities and collections from DSpace Test: console $ export PATH=$PATH:/home/dspacetest.cgiar.org/bin $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/2515 10947-2515/10947-2515.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/2516 10947-2516/10947-2516.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/2517 10947-2517/10947-2517.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/2518 10947-2518/10947-2518.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/2519 10947-2519/10947-2519.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/2708 10947-2708/10947-2708.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/2526 10947-2526/10947-2526.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/2871 10947-2871/10947-2871.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/2527 10947-2527/10947-2527.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10568/93759 10568-93759/10568-93759.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10568/93760 10568-93760/10568-93760.zip $ dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch -i 10947/1 10947-1/10947-1.zip
  • Import to CGSpace (also see notes from 2017-05-10)
    • This submits AIP hierarchies recursively (-r) and suppresses errors when an item’s parent collection hasn’t been created yet—for example, if the item is mapped
    • The large historic archive (109471) is created in several steps because it requires a lot of memory and often crashes
  • Create new subcommunities and collections for content we reorganized into new hierarchies from the original:

    • Import collection hierarchy first and then the items: $ dspace packager -r -t AIP -o ignoreHandle=false -e aorth@mjanja.ch -p 10568/83536 10568-93760/COLLECTION@10947-4651.zip $ for item in 10568-93760/ITEM@10947-465*; do dspace packager -r -f -u -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch $item; done
    • Import items to collection individually in replace mode (-r) while explicitly preserving handles and ignoring parents: $ for item in 10568-93759/ITEM@10947-46*; do dspace packager -r -t AIP -o ignoreHandle=false -o ignoreParent=true -e aorth@mjanja.ch -p 10568/83538 $item; done
    • Get the handles for the last few items from CGIAR Library that were created since we did the migration to DSpace Test in May: dspace=# select handle from item, handle where handle.resource_id = item.item_id AND item.item_id in (select item_id from metadatavalue where metadata_field_id=11 and date(text_value) > '2017-05-01T00:00:00Z');
    • Export them from the CGIAR Library:

      # for handle in 10947/4658 10947/4659 10947/4660 10947/4661 10947/4665 10947/4664 10947/4666 10947/4669; do /usr/local/dspace/bin/dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e m.marus@cgiar.org -i $handle ${handle}.zip; done
      
    • Import on CGSpace:

      $ for item in 10947-latest/*.zip; do dspace packager -r -u -t AIP -e aorth@mjanja.ch $item; done
      
    • [ ] Shut down Tomcat and run update-sequences.sql as the system’s postgres user

Post Migration

  • HTTPS certificates:

Troubleshooting

Foreign Key Error in dspace cleanup

The cleanup script is sometimes used during import processes to clean the database and assetstore after failed AIP imports. If you see the following error with dspace cleanup -v:

Error: ERROR: update or delete on table "bitstream" violates foreign key constraint "bundle_primary_bitstream_id_fkey" on table "bundle"                                                                                                                       
  Detail: Key (bitstream_id)=(119841) is still referenced from table "bundle".

The solution is to set the primary_bitstream_id to NULL in PostgreSQL:

dspace=# update bundle set primary_bitstream_id=NULL where primary_bitstream_id in (119841);

PSQLException During AIP Ingest

After a few rounds of ingesting—possibly with failures—you might end up with inconsistent IDs in the database. In this case, during AIP ingest of a single collection in submit mode (-s):

org.dspace.content.packager.PackageValidationException: Exception while ingesting 10947-2527/10947-2527.zip, Reason: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "handle_pkey"                                    
  Detail: Key (handle_id)=(86227) already exists.

The normal solution is to run the update-sequences.sql script (with Tomcat shut down) but it doesn’t seem to work in this case. Finding the maximum handle_id and manually updating the sequence seems to work:

dspace=# select * from handle where handle_id=(select max(handle_id) from handle);
dspace=# select setval('handle_seq',86873);