This module modifies Alfresco importing behaviour when executing Import action for an ACP package. This addon does not provide any different import tool from Alfresco out-of-the-box.
Alfresco provides by default different importer strategies:
1 - CreateNewNodeImporterStrategy:
Import strategy where imported nodes are always created regardless of whether a node of the same UUID already exists in the repository
2 - RemoveExistingNodeImporterStrategy
Importer strategy where an existing node (one with the same UUID) as a node being imported is first removed. The imported node is placed in the location specified at import time.
3 - ReplaceExistingNodeImporterStrategy
Importer strategy where an existing node (one with the same UUID) as a node being imported is first removed. The imported node is placed under the parent of the removed node.
4 - ThrowOnCollisionNodeImporterStrategy
Import strategy where an error is thrown when importing a node that has the same UUID of an existing node in the repository.
5 - UpdateExistingNodeImporterStrategy
Import strategy where imported nodes are updated if a node with the same UUID already exists in the repository.
CreateNewNodePreservingExistingImporterStrategy is a variant of Strategy 1.
Documentation for Strategy 1 stays that the node will be created regardless of whether a node of the same UUID already exists, but this is not true by implementation. If a node in the repository exists with the same UUID coming from ACP, an exception is thrown and the import process stops.
By using this new ImporterStrategy, if a node in target repository exists having the same UUID provided in the ACP a new UUID is generated and this replacing is logged on a file. If that UUID did not exist in the repository, the node is created by using it.
This log file is called import.log by default and includes lines like the following:
00a71931-4edc-43af-886e-9c202dc0984c > 3ee615e6-cac6-49d1-a431-f0b4b0544adb
This format means: Original UUID > New UUID
Alfresco UUID Importer
License The plugin is licensed under the LGPL v3.0.
State Current addon release is 1.0-SNAPSHOT
Compatibility The current version has been developed using Alfresco 5.1 and Alfresco SDK 2.2.0, although it should run in Alfresco 5.0.d and Alfresco 5.0.c
SOME original Alfresco resources have been overwritten
You can build the artifacts from source code using maven
$ mvn clean package