[flymine-dev] Objectstore summarisation improvements

[Kim Rutherford]

Hi.

We've recently made some improvements to the InterMine code that
performs the Object store summarisation (see:
http://www.intermine.org/wiki/WebappRelease#Objectstoresummarisation).
If you have been making your own build of a webapp you will have seen
the message "Summarising object store"... which is followed by long
wait.

The code has been improved in two ways:

The summary is now stored in the database rather than in a file (which was
dbmodel/dist/objectstoresummary.properties).  This means that if you do a
"ant clean-all" command you won't have another long wait for the summary
properties file to be recreated - it will be retrieved from the database.

The second change is the addition of a post-process task that can be added
to the project.xml that will create the summary as part of the build.  All
that is needed is to add the line:
  <post-process name="summarise-objectstore"/>
to the end of the <post-processing> section of your project.xml

Added the post-process is recommended as it will save time while
deploying the webapp as the summarisation will already be done.  It
also provides a way to re-summarise (needed if any data changes), by
running the `summarise-objectstore` post-process (in the
<mine>/postprocess directory):
  ant -Daction=summarise-objectstore

Note that these changes are currently only on the subversion trunk.  We
won't be changing older branches.  The changes will be in the version 11.0
branch.

Kim.