Release Changes

Release History

Version Date Description
0.4.0 2009-10-11 This fourth release of the Catalog Ingest Tool is intended for beta testing by the PDS Technical Staff.
0.3.0 2009-08-25 This third release of the Catalog Ingest Tool is intended for beta testing at the Engineering Node.
0.2.0 2009-06-08 This second release of the Catalog Ingest Tool is intended for beta testing at the Engineering Node.
0.1.0 2009-04-03 This first release of the Catalog Ingest Tool is intended for beta testing at the Engineering Node.

Release 0.4.0 - 2009-10-11

Type Changes By
add Added a "-c, --config" command line flag option to pass in a configuration file. mcayanan
add Added an "-a, --alias" command line flag option to enable aliasing in the validate mode. mcayanan
update Validate only files with a .CAT extension when passing in a target directory to the tool. mcayanan
update Changed message severity level to INFO for REFERENCE_DESC values not beginning with the author name from the associated REFERNCE_KEY_ID value. mcayanan
update Changed message severity level to INFO for REFERENCE_KEY_ID values in a REF.CAT not being found in a non-REF.CAT. mcayanan
update Removed a referential integrity check to see if PDS_USER_ID and NODE_ID in a PERSON.CAT file exists in a non-PERSON.CAT file. mcayanan
update Updated the "allrefs" command line flag option to "-A". mcayanan

Release 0.3.0 - 2009-08-25

Type Changes By
add Added the capability to find new standard values in validate mode. mcayanan
add Added a complete referential integrity check in validate mode. mcayanan
fix Fixed reference validation to support REFERENCE_KEY_ID values that are not made up of an author and year field. mcayanan
fix Fixed various minor reporting issues to the compare function based on beta testing at the Engineering Node. mcayanan

Release 0.2.0 - 2009-06-08

Type Changes By
add Added the capability to do validation of catalog files. mcayanan
add Added the capability to ingest catalog files into the PDS central catalog database. hyunlee
add Added referential integrity checking of references. mcayanan
update Updated compare function to show a UNIX diff-like output for differences between the source and target. mcayanan
update Updated command-line flag options with a "-m" or "--mode" flag. This enables the compare, ingest, or validate mode. mcayanan
fix Fix the compare function to provide better support in comparing objects between the source and target. mcayanan

Release 0.1.0 - 2009-04-03

Type Changes By
add Added the capability to compare a catalog file with another catalog file or a directory of catalog files with another directory. mcayanan