Re: Import/export servers

Hi Dave

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 8:23 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 6:01 AM Akshay Joshi <
> akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:09 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>>> A number of people have asked for the ability to import and export
>>> server definitions. It's also convenient to have such a feature in the
>>> container world, where new instances of pgAdmin containers may be created
>>> on the fly.
>>>
>>> Here's a draft patch to allow that, including docs and a basic test.
>>>
>>> Review feedback please?
>>>
>>
>> Patch looks good to me. Can we have option to provide the servers to
>> be exported? It may possible that user don't want to export the local
>> servers as it is automatically detected. Can we have GUI(may be dialog)
>> for this?
>>
>
> This is intentionally not a GUI feature.
>
> I've added a --server flag to allow the user to specify specific servers
> (without it, all are dumped), and changed the JSON structure per the
> discussion we had earlier to ensure that servers with duplicate names can
> be dumped.
>

Following are the review comments:

- "--server" should be "--servers" as user can specify multiple servers
to dump.
- Instead of specifying server names with --server, it should be server
ids which is easy for user to type. As names can be a long strings.
- One more advantage of using server id over name is consider a case
where two different servers having same name. With current implementation
it will dump only one server.

> Please re-review.
>
> Thanks!
>
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