WLST Offline and Replacement Variables

Question

Hello.
I'm having a problem where when I'm using WLST to create a domain from a template with an application in it, it writes the application out to the default <BEA_HOME>/user_projects/... as opposed to under the domain directory specified in the wl.writeDomain("/mydomains_dir/mynewdomain" ) command.
The /AppDeployment/mystdapp/SourcePath is set to $APPLICATIONS_DIRECTORY$/myappsdir/mystdapp.war
I even tried to change the $APPLICATIONS_DIRECTORY$ to $DOMAIN_HOME$
but to no avail.
Can you not use the tags?
Is there an API I'm not finding the docs on that tell you how to set those tags to something other than the default before writing out the domain to get it to work???
Any help at all would be very much appreciated. I've been searching the docs for days.
tia,
Ed Ludke
Bank of America
[email protected]
(delete NOSPAM from above email address for valid address)

Answer 1

Satya,
Thanks so much for responding!
I don't believe the problem is in the script because all I'm doing is loading a template and then writting it out as a domain to my own target dir.
Regardless, below is a working sample of what I'm talking about.
To use this script with the medrec template for example (found in $WL_HOME/common/templates/applications/medrec.jar), use the following entries in a show_rpl_var.properties file:
----Start of file----
template=<your_wl_home>/common/templates/applications/medrec.jar
appname=MedRecEAR
domain_home=/some/target/dir/other/than/bea-user_projects/medrec
----End of file----
Do this with a a clean installation (one where no samples have been run) or delete/rename the $BEA_HOME/user_projects/applications/medrec directory. Once you run it, look in $BEA_HOME/user_projects to see a brand new applications/medrec dir containing everything that was under the apps dir of the medrec.jar (if you look inside it).
I believe this may be a bug, but I'm hoping that maybe there's something I should/could be doing in the wlst script prior to writting out the domain that just isn't documented anywhere (that I can find) to change what $APPLICATIONS_DIRECTORY$ defaults to.
I know I can probably explicitly set the SourcePath to the fully qualified dir but you shouldn't really have too.
Thanks again!
Ed
show_rpl_var.py (please note that the proper indentation is lost when posted so you'll have to manually add it back in):
----Start of Script----
from java import util
import wl
#=======================================================================================
# This Script loads a specified template that contains at least one app and then
# displays (prints) the "SourcePath" for the specified app.
# This script relies upon an acompaning properties file, named show_rpl_var.properties
# that is in the following format:
# template=./yourdomaintmpl.jar
# appname=your_app
# domain_home=/your_alt_domain_hom
# Usage:
# . $WL_HOME/server/bin/setWLSEnv.sh
# java org.python.util.jython domainBuilder.py
#=======================================================================================
def main():
buildProps = loadProperties()
buildDomain( buildProps )
#=======================================================================================
#=======================================================================================
def buildDomain( props ):
#// Read in the template
source = props[ "template" ]
print "Reading from template " + source
wl.readTemplate( source )
print "Template read"
#// Configure the default application.
wl.cd( "/AppDeployment/" + props[ "appname" ] )
print "App source path is: ", wl.get( "SourcePath" )
#// Write the Domain.
wl.setOption("OverwriteDomain", "true")
target = props[ "domain_home" ]
print "Writting domain to " + target
wl.writeDomain( target )
print "Domain written."
#=======================================================================================
#=======================================================================================
def loadProperties():
properties = {}
#load domain instance vars
prb = util.PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle( "show_rpl_var" )
prbKeys = prb.getKeys()
while( prbKeys.hasMoreElements() ):
key = prbKeys.nextElement()
properties[ key ] = prb.getString( key )
#prb = util.PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle( "pd_simple_seed_wl900" )
return properties
main()
-----End of Script-----