It's still a bit unclear to me..
> Hi,
>
> IT 3754 <https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3754>
> may explain the confusion here. In most cases, "asadmin add-resources
> <relative path>" is executed on the server side.
> The logic goes like this:
> 1. check if file exists
Where does the command look to see if the xml file exists? within
<install-dir>?
> 2. if true, then create the "canonical" path
> 3. if false, then send the relative-path/xml-file. Since server's
> current directory is <domain-root>/config, then it will try to find
> the xml file from this directory.
>
> In Vince case, the file exists, then asadmin creates the "canonical"
> path and executes the command. "add-resources" catches that it's an
> invalid file and throws the message: "DOCTYPE is not present in xml".
>
> I think the manpage needs to be corrected.
>
> HTH,
> Jane
>
>
> vince kraemer wrote:
>
>> OK.
>>
>> So, there is something wrong... Either the command is not behaving
>> like the documentation says it will OR the documentation is too
>> unclear about how the xml-file-path is used.
>>
>> There is something that can be fixed here... the code or the doc.
>>
>> You can decide which should be fixed and assign the bug as appropriate.
>>
>> vbk
>>
>> Chinmayee Srivathsa wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I saw that.
>>> I have the sample XML file saved as chin.xml in my home directory
>>> and I still got the "No such file or directory" error ie it did
>>> prepend <install-dir>/domains/domain1/config.
>>>
>>> However, I need to replace <install-dir>/domains/domain1/config with
>>> <install-dir>/domains/<domain-name>/config or <domain-dir>/config.
>>>
>>> - Chinmayee
>>>
>>> vince kraemer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chinmayee Srivathsa wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Vince,
>>>>>
>>>>> The description of xml-file-path in the add-resources man page says "
>>>>> The path to the XML file containing the resource(s) to be created.
>>>>> The XML file must reside in the
>>>>> <install-dir>/domains/domain1/config directory. If you specify a
>>>>> relative path or simply provide the name of the XML file, this
>>>>> command will prepend <install-dir>/domains/domain1/config to this
>>>>> operand."
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried the command with the relative path to a (non-existent) xml
>>>>> file. As specified in this description. the command did prepend
>>>>> <install-dir>/domains/domain1/config.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess that is why I am confused... I never give it the relative
>>>> path of a file that doesn't exist.
>>>>
>>>> When you give the command a relative path to a file that does
>>>> exist, it does the right thing, but the description of
>>>> xml-file-path makes it sound like it should not...
>>>>
>>>> See my example further down... (I have edited out some of the
>>>> intermediate responses for brevity...
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> asadmin> add-resources --user admin --port 4848 chin.xml
>>>>> Please enter the admin password>
>>>>> Operation 'createResource' failed in 'resources' Config Mbean.
>>>>> Target exception message:
>>>>> /home/cs194067/SUNWappserver/domains/domain1/config/chin.xml (No
>>>>> such file or directory)
>>>>> CLI137 Command add-resources failed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Chinmayee
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Vince Kraemer wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I was reading the 9.1 docs on add-resources... and it looks
>>>>>>>> suspect.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My main area of concern is the description of xml_file_path...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is that description actually correct?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This snippit from my terminal window seems to say NO, to me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> > pe/6/sailfin/bin/asadmin add-resources this-name-is-unique.txt
>>>>>>>> Operation 'createResource' failed in 'resources' Config Mbean.
>>>>>>>> Target exception message: DOCTYPE is not present in xml
>>>>>>>> /export/home/vbk/sf/this-name-is-unique.txt. Please correct the
>>>>>>>> issue.
>>>>>>>> CLI137 Command add-resources failed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the example above...
>>>>
>>>> The file doesn't exist in <install-dir>/domains/domain1/config.
>>>>
>>>> The command did not append <install-dir>/domains/domain1/config to
>>>> the aperand to create an absolute path.
>>>>
>>>> Based on the description of xml-file-path... I was expecting to see
>>>> something like
>>>>
>>>> Operation 'createResource' failed in 'resources' Config Mbean.
>>>> Target exception message:
>>>> /export/home/vbk/v21/pe/6/glassfish/domains/domain1/config/this-name-is-unique.xml
>>>> (No such file or directory)
>>>> CLI137 Command add-resources failed.
>>>>
>>>> Since I did not see that... I was a bit confused... Is the
>>>> implementation of add-resources incorrect?
>>>>
>>>> vbk
>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> vbk
>>>>>>>>
>>>>
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