WebLogic.WLST question

Question

I am trying to create a python script to use with WLST to deploy applications into our BEA environment without having to go thru the console. I am not a python developer but I tried to take a stab at it. Here is what I came up with.
# Prompt user for input
name = raw_input("Enter username:")
password = raw_input("Enter password:")
protocol = raw_input("Enter URL(ex.t3://adminAddress:adminPort)?")
app = raw_input("Archive: ")
appPath = "/beadev/wls920/applications/" + app
Server = raw_input("Managed/Cluster: ")
# Output user input to stdout
print name
print password
print protocol
print app[:-4]
print appPath
print Server
# Format parameters to the deploy() method
# based on user input
cmd = "deploy(" +"\"" + app[:-4] + "\"" + "," "\"" \
+ appPath + "\"" + "," "\"" + Server \
+ "\"" + "," + "securityModel=" \
+ "\"DDOnly\"" + "," + "block=" + "\"true\"" ")"
# Output parameters to stdout
print "Command sent to deploy(): " + cmd
# Define method
def deploy_myApp(cmd):
try:
#deploy(app,appPath , Server ,securityModel="DDOnly",block="true")
#deploy("Operations","/beadev/wls920/applications/Operations.war","dstDevMS3",securityModel="DDOnly",block="true")
#deploy(cmd)
cmd
print "Command inside the deploy_myApp() function: " + cmd
except:
print "Could not deploy application ", app
dumpStack()
# Connect to the administration server
connect(name, password, protocol)
# Open and start edit session
edit()
startEdit()
# Call method
deploy_myApp(cmd)
# Save and activate changes
save()
activate(block="true")
# End edit session and exit WLST.
stopEdit()
exit()
I am trying to make the script as generic a possible. The problem I am facing is that the deploy method inside the deploy_myApp() function does not work or to be more accurate, it doesn't look like it even runs. The rest of the scripts seems to run fine. Anyone have any ideas? My initial thought was that the deploy() method does not like variables passed thru it but that seemed odd since the connect() method had no problems with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edited by wellscx at 01/24/2008 11:58 AM

Answer 1

I was able to fix this in the below method
# Define method
def deploy_myApp(cmd):
try:
#deploy(app,appPath , Server ,securityModel="DDOnly",block="true")
#deploy("Operations","/beadev/wls920/applications/Operations.war","dstDevMS3",securityModel="DDOnly",block="true")
#deploy(cmd)
cmd # Old call
print "Command inside the deploy_myApp() function: " + cmd
exec(cmd) # New call
except:
print "Could not deploy application ", app
dumpStack()
I had to use the exec() method to actually run the contents of the "cmd" variable.