Metacat

#!/usr/bin/python

"""

 Transfers documents from one metacat server to another

 Author: matt perry

 Date: 09/28/06

"""

import metacat

import sys

try:

    docidlist = sys.argv[1]

except:

    print

    print " usage: python transferEml.py docidlist.txt "

    print "        where docidlist.txt is a line-delimited list of docids "

    print

    sys.exit(1)

print "Logging into destination server"

dest = metacat.MetacatClient('yourserver:8180','/knb/metacat')

dest.login('user','password','NCEAS')

print "Logging into source server"

src = metacat.MetacatClient('knb.ecoinformatics.org', '/knb/metacat')

src.login('user','password','NCEAS')

print "Open docid list and loop"

for docid in open(docidlist,'r').readlines():

    docid = docid.strip().replace('\n','')

    if docid != '' and docid is not None:

       print " reading docid " + docid

       eml = src.read(docid)

       if eml:

           print " inserting docid " + docid

           response = dest.insert(docid + ".1" ,eml)

           if not response:

              print "   insert failed"

       else:

           print "   docid " + docid + " not found"

print "Logging out"

dest.logout()

src.logout()