A change to the Imports service, to be included in v2.3, will return additional data in the response: * Total records imported * Number of records imported by document (record) type (useful if you mix two or more document types within a single import file) * Individual elements containing the document type and CSID of each successfully reported record, in addition to the previously-provided text report of same A sample response, from POSTing a file to the Imports service that contained two Intake and two Object Exit records, is appended below. Since this represents a change that could affect your import scripts, wanted to give you a "head's up" on this. AFAIK, these new fields should solely be additive, and existing fields should be unchanged. There is one behavior that this change removes: the <report> tag / element no longer will sometimes return Aron P.S. This change was made to help support automated testing of the Imports service; if it offers any side benefits for manual or scripted imports, so much the better. P.P.S. It's still painfully the case that the Imports service sometimes returns 'SUCCESS' responses when it shouldn't. There are known JIRA issues to be resolved over time related to that. With the new format, you will now - hopefully - see '<totalRecordsImported>0</totalRecordsImported>' if the import completely failed to create new records; at least it did in one early test when attempting to import a record into a non-existent 'Foo' service. -- <?xml version="1.0"?> <import> <msg>SUCCESS</msg> <importedRecords> <importedRecord> <doctype>Intake</doctype> <csid>4a74741a-1038-4709-aed7-f11b0488662a</csid> </importedRecord> <importedRecord> <doctype>ObjectExit</doctype> <csid>5ea68ca1-80d5-4b26-8b05-5d5a711391aa</csid> </importedRecord> <importedRecord> <doctype>Intake</doctype> <csid>01a9635b-4a80-44c2-b22d-49cb9a43884d</csid> </importedRecord> <importedRecord> <doctype>ObjectExit</doctype> <csid>5d68e4ff-b1fe-4b9b-b889-1b6c19f155c2</csid> </importedRecord> </importedRecords> <totalRecordsImported>4</totalRecordsImported> <numRecordsImportedByDocType> <numRecordsImported> <docType>Intake</docType> <numRecords>2</numRecords> </numRecordsImported> <numRecordsImported> <docType>ObjectExit</docType> <numRecords>2</numRecords> </numRecordsImported> </numRecordsImportedByDocType> <report>READ: /usr/local/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.33/temp/imports-e498509a-0524-49d3-89a1-203313590f5b/Intakes/01a9635b-4a80-44c2-b22d-49cb9a43884d/document.xml /Intakes/01a9635b-4a80-44c2-b22d-49cb9a43884d READ: /usr/local/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.33/temp/imports-e498509a-0524-49d3-89a1-203313590f5b/Intakes/4a74741a-1038-4709-aed7-f11b0488662a/document.xml /Intakes/4a74741a-1038-4709-aed7-f11b0488662a READ: /usr/local/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.33/temp/imports-e498509a-0524-49d3-89a1-203313590f5b/ObjectExit/5d68e4ff-b1fe-4b9b-b889-1b6c19f155c2/document.xml /ObjectExit/5d68e4ff-b1fe-4b9b-b889-1b6c19f155c2 READ: /usr/local/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.33/temp/imports-e498509a-0524-49d3-89a1-203313590f5b/ObjectExit/5ea68ca1-80d5-4b26-8b05-5d5a711391aa/document.xml /ObjectExit/5ea68ca1-80d5-4b26-8b05-5d5a711391aa </report> </import>

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Aron Roberts <aron@socrates.berkeley.edu> wrote: >  There is one behavior that this [Imports POST results] change removes: > the <report> tag / element no longer will sometimes return Adding the missing piece: Now the <reports> tag will no longer report "NO RESULTS". If your scripts relied on that, please let me know, and we can discuss whether to add that back, or what new elements might substitute for that.