db.csw.admin.py - GRASS GIS manual

NAME

db.csw.admin.py - CSW database manager

KEYWORDS

SYNOPSIS

db.csw.admin.py

db.csw.admin.py --help

db.csw.admin.py [-rsiohdfa] configure=name [load_records=string] [export_records=string] [gen_sitemap=name] [url_csw=string] [file_xml=name] [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

-r: Load records recursively; Load records from directory recursively
-s: Setup database; Creates repository tables and indexes
-i: Database indexes; Rebuild repository database indexes
-o: Optimize db; Optimize repository database
-h: Refresh harvested records; Optimize repository database
-d: Delete all records(!!); Delete all records without prompting
-f: Force confirmation; Force confirmation of task
-a: Automatic configuration; Set database according GRASS default and confugure server
--overwrite: Allow output files to overwrite existing files
--help: Print usage summary
--verbose: Verbose module output
--quiet: Quiet module output
--ui: Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:

configure=name [required]: path to configure file (default.cfg); Default: /var/www/html/pycsw/default.cfg
load_records=string: Load metadata(folder); Loads metadata records from directory into repository
export_records=string: Create db dump(folder); Dump metadata records from repository into directory
gen_sitemap=name: Sitemap; Generate XML Sitemap
url_csw=string: Url of CSW; Execute a CSW request via HTTP POST: URL of CSW
file_xml=name: XML file; Execute a CSW request via HTTP POST: XML FILE

DESCRIPTION
NOTES
USAGE
- Configure file
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

DESCRIPTION

Module db.csw.admin allows to handle csw server.

NOTES

For dependencies and installation instructions see wiki page.

USAGE

For using this module must be installed pycsw libraries. Default path to configure folder is setup to pycsw install folder(LINUX) /var/www/html/pycsw in another case, path to config file must by set by user.

Configure file

In configure file must be setup few parameters for proper work of pycsw library.

server.home
Path to folder with installed pycsw
database.homez
Path to database with data of catalog. By default is set to SQLite database. E.g GRASS GIS sqlite database.
server.url
For using local serever this parameter should by set to http://localhost:8000/

db.csw.harvest source=https://geodati.gov.it/RNDT/csw destination=http://localhost:8000/

AUTHOR

Matej Krejci, OSGeoREL at the Czech Technical University in Prague, developed during Google Summer of Code 2015 (mentors: Martin Landa)

SOURCE CODE

Available at: db.csw.admin source code (history)

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