[Chandler-dev] Re: skipping over "out-of-the-box" items during dump

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:45 AM 3/21/2007 -0700, Morgen Sagen wrote:
>[This is mainly a pje question, but I thought I would CC dev in case
>anyone else had an opinion]
>
>I realized this morning that we need to solve the following problem:
>Any item that is created "out of the box" on a clean repository -- in
>other words, every item that is created by an update( ) call within
>an installParcel( ) -- should not be dumped.  If they are, then we'll
>get duplicates the next time a brand new Chandler is run and the data
>is reloaded, since the items created via update( ) will have
>different UUIDs the second time around.  The "Welcome Note" is such
>an item; if we dump it, run Chandler with a fresh repo, and reload
>the dump, we'll have two such notes.
>
>So I was thinking we could add an attribute to schema.Item called
>"is_user_data" or something which has a default value of True.
>schema.Item.update( ) would set this to False.

Wouldn't it suffice to just not dump anything under the parcels 
tree?  After all, update() can be used for non-parcel items, and you can 
create parcel children without update().