exportMetadata into SOA

exportMetadata

Description

The application metadata can be transferred from one server location (for example, testing) to another server location (for example, production) by exporting and importing the metadata.
Use this command to export metadata.

Syntax

exportMetadata(application, server, toLocation, [docs,] [restrictCustTo],
 [excludeAllCust], [excludeBaseDocs], [excludeExtendedMetadata], [fromLabel],
 [toLabel], [applicationVersion])

Argument	Definition
application	The name of the application from which the metadata is to be exported.
server	The target server on which this application is deployed.
toLocation	The target directory or archive file (.jar, .JAR, .zip or .ZIP) to which documents selected from the source partition will be transferred. The directory or archive file must be a local or network directory or file where the application is physically deployed. If the location is a directory, but the directory does not exist, the directory will be created. If the location is an archive file, an archive file will be created. If the archive file already exists, the exportMetadata operation will overwrite the file. This argument can be used as temporary file system for transferring metadata from one server to another. For more information, see "Moving Metadata from a Test System to a Production System" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide.
docs	Optional. A list of comma-separated, fully qualified document names or document name patterns, or both. The patterns can have the following wildcard characters: * and **. This argument defaults to "/**", which exports all the metadata in the repository. The asterisk (*) represents all documents under the current namespace. The double asterisk (**) represents all documents under the current namespace and also recursively includes all documents in subnamespaces. For example, "/oracle/*" will include all documents under "/oracle/" but not include documents under "/oracle/mds/". "/oracle/**" will include all documents under "/oracle/" and also under "/oracle/mds/" and any other documents further in the namespace chain.
restrictCustTo	Optional. A list of comma-separated customization layer names used to restrict the export operation to export only customization documents that match the specified customization layers. This argument will be ignored if the excludeAllCust argument is also specified.
excludeAllCust	Optional. A Boolean value (true or false) that specifies whether or not to export all customization documents. This argument defaults to false. This argument overrides the restrictCustTo argument.
excludeBaseDocs	Optional. A Boolean value (true or false) that specifies whether or not to export base documents. This argument defaults to false.
excludeExtendedMetadata	Optional. A Boolean value (true or false) that specifies whether or not to export the Extended Metadata documents. This argument defaults to false.
fromLabel	Optional. Transfers the documents from the source partition that is associated with this label.
toLabel	Optional. Works with the fromLabel argument to transfer the delta between fromLabel to toLabel from the source partition.
applicationVersion	Optional. The application version, if multiple versions of the same application are deployed.

Examples

The following example exports all metadata files from the application mdsapp deployed in the server srg.

wls:/weblogic/serverConfig> exportMetadata(application='mdsapp', 
                            server='srg',toLocation='/tmp/myrepos',docs='/**')
Location changed to domainRuntime tree. This is a read-only tree with DomainMBean as the root.
For more help, use help(domainRuntime)
Executing operation: exportMetadata.
"exportMetadata" operation completed. Summary of "exportMetadata" operation is:
List of documents successfully transferred:
/mypackage/write.xml
/mypackage/write1.xml
/sample1.jspx

The following example exports only the customization documents under the layer user without any base documents from label label1 to label label2:

wls:/weblogic/serverConfig> exportMetadata(application='mdsapp',
                       server='srg',toLocation='/tmp/myrepos',
                       restrictCustTo='user',
                       excludeBaseDocs='true',
                       fromLabel='label1',
                       toLabel='label2',
                       applicationVersion='11.1.1')
List of documents successfully transferred:
/mypackage/mdssys/cust/user/user1/write1.xml.xml
/mypackage/mdssys/cust/user/user2/write2.xml.xml
2 documents successfully transferred.