GETLABEL after directory move

[staggart]

Hi,

Suppose I label a subtree named $/dev "12345" and later I move $/dev to $/xyz. What happens if I then do a GETLABEL on $/dev "12345"? Does it fail?

Thanks,

Scott

[lbauer]

I labeled a subfolder, moved it to a different parent directory, did a Get Label. Worked for me.

Does it work for you?

[staggart]

no, it doesn't work for me. I get:

running fortress command GETLABEL -verbose -makereadonly -merge overwrite -labelworkingfolder ./XXX $/ToolsAndUtilities/ATestFolderForGetLab
el 12345
<vault>
<error>
<exception>System.Exception: No object was found at the repository path: $/ToolsAndUtilities/ATestFolderForGetLabel
at VaultClientIntegrationLib.RepositoryUtil.FindVaultTreeObjectAtReposOrLocalPath(String testPath)
at VaultClientIntegrationLib.GetOperations.performLabelGet(String objectPath, String label, String labelSubItem, String labelWorkingFolde
r, String destPath, GetOptions go)
at VaultClientIntegrationLib.GetOperations.ProcessCommandGetLabelToTempWorkingFolder(String objectPath, String label, String labelSubItem
, GetOptions getOptions, String tmpWorkingFolder)
at VaultCmdLineClient.VaultCmdLineClient.ProcessCommand(Args curArg)
at VaultCmdLineClient.VaultCmdLineClient.Main(String[] args)</exception>
</error>
<result>
<success>False</success>
</result>
</vault>


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I'd like to make sure we are doing the same things. I will show a sample of what I did - my names in the above cut and past are a bit different.

1) Create a folder named $/111/YYY with a file in it and add it to the repo.
2) Labeled YYY with "12345" (note that I tried different cases where I labelled both the directory I am interested in moving and the parent with the same results)
3) Moved YYY to $/222
4) Did a get label of $111/YYY with label of "12345". I got the error "object not found".

Now, I suppose if in step 4 above I did a get label of $/222/YYY 12345 it might work (maybe that's what you tried). That's not the interesting case to me. I am most interested in what happens if I try to retrieve a folder/file by a path that is no longer present in the current repo tree (i.e., it was available in a previously labelled version of the repo tree)

[lbauer]

I tested your steps with the Command Line Client, plus did the same sequence of steps in the GUI Client, where I could see things more visually.

When I labeled YYY, then moved YYY to $/222, the label moved with it. There was no longer a recursive label when I selected $/111 in the GUI Client->Show Labels. That's probably why you got the error "object not found". There were no longer any labels under $/111.

When I did a Show Labels on $/222, it showed a recursive label on $/222/YYY, created at $111/YYY.

However, when I directly labeled $/111 (with YYY as its subfolder), moved YYY, and did a GetLabel on $/111, it did retrieve the YYY folder and contents. I'm not sure why you didn't get the same results when directly labeling the parent folder.

So in summary -- the label moves with the item that was directly labeled. If a folder is labeled, and an item in the folder moves, then the GetLabel properly retrieves all the items that were in the folder at the time it was labeled.

[staggart]

OK, thanks. I did not try having the parent directory labeled. Your example seems to work. Thanks again.

[lbauer]

Let me know if you have additional questions.