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  • 1.  Designer (Eclipse) CLI

    Posted Tue August 21, 2018 02:38 PM

    Has anyone attempted to use eclipsec.exe to execute Designer-hosted features from the command line? I’m interested in trying to execute the package/service compare tool from the CLI. Mainly to identify when differences exist between instances that should match (e.g. 2 nodes in a cluster; prod vs. dr). The intent is to alert someone to investigate rather than obtain the details of the differences.

    TIA,

    Rob


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  • 2.  RE: Designer (Eclipse) CLI

    Posted Tue August 21, 2018 05:47 PM

    Why don’t you want to use a file comparison tool for this? There are many of them, they are easy to use from the command line and hence in scripts.


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  • 3.  RE: Designer (Eclipse) CLI

    Posted Tue August 21, 2018 06:01 PM

    A file comparison tool could indeed be used. But since SAG has already done the work to compare packages and the components within, and knowing which files to compare with each other for a given item such as a service, I’d thought I’d try to leverage that.

    At this point, exploring options.


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  • 4.  RE: Designer (Eclipse) CLI

    Posted Wed August 22, 2018 12:10 PM

    When i want to use features from Designer in Java service, i usually reverse engineer the features using their corresponding jar files in the plugin folder of the Eclipse. From what you are trying to do, you might want to explore the idesignereditor.jar. There are few methods in DestinationComparator class that might help you.

    AFAIK, there is no official CLI for Designer that Developers can leverage but i can be wrong!


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  • 5.  RE: Designer (Eclipse) CLI

    Posted Wed August 22, 2018 02:02 PM

    Hi,

    how do you apply code changes or delivery on your production and dr environment?

    If done correctly by deployment (Package Publisher in IS Admin UI or just Deployer) there should never be any changes done manually on these environments.

    Regards,
    Holger


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  • 6.  RE: Designer (Eclipse) CLI

    Posted Wed August 22, 2018 02:10 PM

    We use Deployer. No changes done manually.

    But mistakes happen. The comparison is intended as a safety net.


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