[GeoNode-users] geonode importlayers error when metadata XML is present

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi Daniel:

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Daniel Victoria
<daniel.victoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tom et al.,
>
> I saw that you closed the issue. Great. Two questions though
> 1) Was the problem related to how the metadata was produced (incomplete)? Or
> related to geonode not accepting incomplete data?
>

I would say both. Was the metadata produced in GeoNode?  If you can reproduce
a workflow, this will help us validate it's a GeoNode metadata
handling issue that
we can then fix.

Thanks

..Tom

> 2) I'm a newbie when it comes to updating GeoNode. I have it installed from
> the ppa repositories. How can I apply the patch you just comited? Should I
> just convert the GeoNode install folder from my machine into a git
> repository and pull from Github? Are there any tutorials on how to do that?
>
> Thanks
> Daniel
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Daniel Victoria
> <daniel.victoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Tom, I just opened an issue[1].
>>
>> Now, getting back to my problem of getting the metadata from one GeoNode
>> server to another. What would be the best option? I tried downloading the
>> XML and putting it along with the shapefile since I'd rather not have to
>> fill 100+ metadata records by hand.
>>
>> What about the migration scripts from afabiani. Will that move both the
>> data (vector data in postgis or imagens in GeoServer) along with the
>> metadata?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Daniel
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues/2469
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Daniel Victoria
>>> <daniel.victoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > I'm trying to populate a new geonode instance (v2.4) with some
>>> > shapefiles
>>> > from another geonode (v2.4).
>>> >
>>> > I have all the shapefiles in a directory so I'm inclined to use the
>>> > importlayers command. And to make things easier, I've downloaded the
>>> > metadata (ISO format, XML file) from the former geonode and placed it
>>> > with
>>> > the shapefiles that will be imported.
>>> >
>>> > The importlayers command fails with the following message
>>> >
>>> > ./par_a01_2013_inventoryplotsubplot.shp
>>> > ================
>>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> >   File
>>> > "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/geonode/layers/utils.py",
>>> > line 588, in upload
>>> >     title=title
>>> >   File
>>> > "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/geonode/layers/utils.py",
>>> > line 429, in file_upload
>>> >     vals, regions, keywords = set_metadata(xml_file.read())
>>> >   File
>>> > "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/geonode/layers/metadata.py",
>>> > line 62, in set_metadata
>>> >     vals, regions, keywords = dc2dict(exml)
>>> >   File
>>> > "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/geonode/layers/metadata.py",
>>> > line 198, in dc2dict
>>> >     vals['date'] = sniff_date(mdata.modified)
>>> >   File
>>> > "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/geonode/layers/metadata.py",
>>> > line 222, in sniff_date
>>> >     return datetime.datetime.strptime(datestr.strip(), dfmt)
>>> > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'
>>> >
>>> > If I remove the XML file from the shapefile directory, the importlayers
>>> > command works OK.
>>> >
>>> > Any idea what is wrong? Attached is the offending metadata file, just
>>> > in
>>> > case.
>>> > Cheers
>>> > Daniel
>>>
>>> Daniel: looks like missing metadata.  Having said this, we should have a
>>> more
>>> graceful error.  If you can open a GitHub issue [1], I will fix.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> ..Tom
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues/new
>>
>>
>