[kepler-dev] on your next kepler update

[Aaron Schultz]

I'd also like to point out the new function:
DotKeplerManager.getModuleWriteableDirectory(String moduleName)

which can be used to retrieve the directory inside the .kepler directory 
that a module should be reading and writing to.
That directory is guaranteed to exist at startup.

The core module is now using it's directory 
(.kepler/<instance>/modules/core/) to store the LastObjectId, 
LocalKarRepositories, and LocalSaveRepository files which hold module 
specific information.

Aaron

Aaron Schultz wrote:
>
> Hi Chad,
>
> The InstanceAuthNamespace file contains a java serialized string for 
> the unique authority and namespace of any given kepler installation 
> (which is either retrieved from a webservice or assigned via UUID).
>
> For each installation of kepler on a given machine there would be 
> (actually there now is) a subdirectory in the .kepler directory that 
> was named using the authority and namespace.
> Each of these .kepler/instance directories would contain it's own 
> cache as we discussed yesterday....
>
> So we need that one file to find all the other files for any given 
> installation of kepler...
>
> Aaron
>
> Chad Berkley wrote:
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> I've been seeing this file appear and wondering what it was.  I think 
>> things like this should be written to .kepler or some other user 
>> directory.  I agree with David that the kepler project directory 
>> should probably not be written to in general.  Maybe this type of 
>> file should be written to the cache so that it could be 
>> programatically purged if and when it needs to be.
>>
>> thanks,
>> chad
>>
>>
>> David Welker wrote:
>>> Hi Aaron,
>>>
>>> In general, you need to avoid writing anything to the kepler.modules 
>>> project root directory. In the general case, this directory is 
>>> likely to be stored in a read-only area of disk.
>>>
>>> David
>>>>
>>>> You will want to delete the InstanceAuthNamespace file in your 
>>>> project root directory.
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise you will have troubles getting proper object ids for LSIDs.
>>>>
>>>> Aaron
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