Remote Import

The JIRA project doesn't seem to exist yet so posting a couple of feature requests here before I forget...

I guess normally this plugin will be used behind the company firewall and as only admins can use it then it makes sense to have the plugin do what it currently does.

However, I'd love to use this plugin on a public server - that being the case, some extra controls are needed...

1. Ability to define which spaces/etc can be exported on source server.

It would be sweet if the server that contains the original data could be configured to say which things it will allow to be exported to another server.

For example, I might want our user guides to be transferrable to other sites, but not our website space.

If none of these settings are defined, then the default should be "nothing can be exported". You have to add things to make them available for export and maybe also have an "All" checkbox if you wanted all spaces or all users, etc., to be exportable.

2. Ability for destination server to show a list of available things that can be imported.

Based on #1 above, the user would enter details for the source server and the plugin would query the source server to ask for a list of available things. The admin then chooses what they want from the list and away they go.

3. Ability to say which users are allowed to use the export

As the admin of a destination server might not be an admin of the source server, it would be useful if we could list which users (they would need account on source server) are allowed to perform the import to from the remote server.

4. Ability for source server to export to a remote destination server

From what I can see, at present the remote (destination) server logs in to the source server and pulls data from it.

It would be useful if that could also work the other way round - ie. source server pushes data to the remote destination server. In this scenario, the source server would need to log in to the remote destination server and push the content in to it.

5. Ability to do scheduled transfers

The ability to schedule hourly, daily, weekly transfers of data would be most useful.

This plugin looks great!  We've got two separate instances on the same version, and our users and groups are sync'd up already (or will be here shortly).

So, my question is if all of that is already taken care of and now we only want to import space content, will the plugin know that the users and groups already exist on the target system and just ignore creating or updating them? 

Hi, I have a couple other questions:

1. Does it leave the old space on the source system intact? It doesn't delete it, right?
2. It sounds like I have to verify on the destination server that the spacekey doesn't already exist or it will overwrite it, right?
3. When I choose a group or groups to import, does it also bring over users in those groups and create them if necessary? What if the users already exist? What if any of groups already existed?

Thanks!

Hello!

I am trying to use this plugin to migrate several spaces from our development Confluence instance to our production instance. However, I have run into a problem. After I enter the URL, username, password, and space key, then press import, I receive this error message: Import failed: Unable to contact remote Confluence server and execute export. On the running task page, I get the following message: Status: Import failed: Unable to contact remote Confluence server and execute export
Time Elapsed: 30 seconds
Completion: 100% complete

The entries in the stdout log file are voluminous. I think that these bits might give a clue:

Mar 28, 2008 1:47:22 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 161813 ms

Exception in thread "Remote Space Import task" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to contact remote Confluence server and execute export
        at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.RemoteImportAction$CompleteImportTask$1.doInTransaction(RemoteImportAction.java:124)
        at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate.execute(TransactionTemplate.java:127)at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.RemoteImportAction$CompleteImportTask.runInternal(RemoteImportAction.java:85)
        at com.atlassian.confluence.util.longrunning.ConfluenceAbstractLongRunningTask.run(ConfluenceAbstractLongRunningTask.java:21)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to contact remote Confluence server and execute export
        at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.DefaultSpaceImportManager.exportRemoteSpace(DefaultSpaceImportManager.java:80)
        at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.DefaultSpaceImportManager.importRemoteSpace(DefaultSpaceImportManager.java:279)
        at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.RemoteImportAction$CompleteImportTask.importSpace(RemoteImportAction.java:181)
        at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.RemoteImportAction$CompleteImportTask.access$2400(RemoteImportAction.java:66)
        at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.RemoteImportAction$CompleteImportTask$1.doInTransaction(RemoteImportAction.java:115)
        ... 4 more

Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: https
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:516)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:466)
        at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:365)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:477)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:214)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:287)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:299)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:795)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:747)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:672)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:839)
        at org.apache.xmlrpc.DefaultXmlRpcTransport.sendXmlRpc(DefaultXmlRpcTransport.java:83)
        at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClientWorker.execute(XmlRpcClientWorker.java:71)
        at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:193)
        at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:184)
        at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:177)
        at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.DefaultSpaceImportManager.call(DefaultSpaceImportManager.java:362)
        at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.DefaultSpaceImportManager.getLoginToken(DefaultSpaceImportManager.java:357)
        at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.remoteimport.DefaultSpaceImportManager.exportRemoteSpace(DefaultSpaceImportManager.java:69)
        ... 8 more

We are using SSL on the machines running both Confluence instance (URL is https://). Could this be causing the problem?
Thanks much!
Pat

Dear Jens/Brown,

I would like to know whether this plugin will work the same even if we change the context from confluence to some other name like 'containerdoc'.

Because I observe there are some remote calls based on string 'confluence1.xxx'. It will be a great help if you could explain the role of the string 'confluence1.xxx' in this implimentation and what are the other similar strings to call remote services?

Thanks
Imtiaz

When we do a Remote import thru this plug-in it is not importing the labels of the source server space to target server space. Any clue in this how to get it done?

@ Patricia and Choy:

I think this is a bug in the plugin.  It does not appear to be fixed as of this posting.  There is a check that prepends the "http://" incorrectly yielding a url like http://https://urlyouspecified/ and therefore the unknownhostexception.  Here is a trivial patch that fixes it:

Index: C:/data/development/projects/remoteimport-0.9.5/src/main/java/com/atlassian/confluence/extra/remoteimport/AbstractRemoteImportAction.java
===================================================================
--- C:/data/development/projects/remoteimport-0.9.5/src/main/java/com/atlassian/confluence/extra/remoteimport/AbstractRemoteImportAction.java    (revision 21411)
+++ C:/data/development/projects/remoteimport-0.9.5/src/main/java/com/atlassian/confluence/extra/remoteimport/AbstractRemoteImportAction.java    (working copy)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         {
             try
             {
-                if (!url.startsWith("http://"))
+                if (!url.startsWith("http://") && !url.startsWith("https://"))
                     url = "http://"+url;
                
                 parsedUrl = new URL(url + "/rpc/xmlrpc");