Last execution time for "rebuildData.php" and "rebuildPropertyStatistics.php"

[kghbln]

In case one does not control the server on which the cron is setup for these two scripts there is no easy way to determine if they have actually been run successfully. Thus it will be nice to have date and time information somewhere on the wiki, perhaps on "Sepecial:SMWAdmin" saying e.g. "Last time successfully run on February 19, 2015, 05:15 am".

We have this for "rebuildConceptCache.php" on the respective concept pages and this is really useful.

[mwjames]

OK this can be done fairly easy and all you need is something like:

• Add 'maintenance-script-execution to the bottom of settings.php

$GLOBALS['smwgLogEventTypes'] = array(
    'sqlstore-query-execution' => false,
    'maintenance-script-execution' => true

• Add a simple logger statement such as after $maintenanceHelper->reset();

$store->getLogger()->logToTable(
    'maintenance-script-execution', // smw event type
    'smw-maintenance-runner', // user
    'rebuildData', // target
    'rebuildData.php execution' // message in the log
);

and Special:Log (or index.php?title=Special:Log&type=smw) should show a log entry together with time/date of the execution. If you want the content of the options to appear in the log entry then you have to do a little bit more work and extend the rebuildData.php execution' message string.

Maybe if you only want to log specific runs, add a --with-log option to the script.

That's all you need

[kghbln]

This turned into a disaster. However smwgLogEventTypes introduced with SMW 2.1 seems to have been removed in the meantime so this may have something to do with it.

[mwjames]

This turned into a disaster. However smwgLogEventTypes introduced with SMW 2.1 seems to have been removed in the meantime so this may have something to do with it.

I kept the main class [0] ManualEntryLogger but I wasn't happy with the $store->getLogger()->logToTable thing so I removed it for now since this wasn't really helpful.

The maintenance script need to do something like:

use SMW\MediaWiki\ManualEntryLogger;

    public function execute() {
        ...

        if ( $this->hasOption( 'with-log' ) ) {
            $manualEntryLogger = new ManualEntryLogger ();
            $manualEntryLogger->registerLoggableEventTypes( array( 'maintenance-script' => true ) );

            $manualEntryLogger->log( 'maintenance-script', 'UserX', 'rebuildData', 'Some nifty comment about ...' );
        }

[0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/src/MediaWiki/ManualEntryLogger.php

[kghbln]

PS: I haven't tested this, just wrote this off the top of my head while looking at [0].

Tried this including also adding the global to settings and a $this->addOption but I do not get the SMW-Log back. No PHP-issues though. Never mind for now. Let's just wait till logging is cool again.

[mwjames]

My bad it needs registerLoggableEventTypes( array( 'maintenance-script' => true ) ); and then you get

[kghbln]

Ah, this works, but we basically need all the other stuff back like 'NullLogger.php' etc. so we can have $manualEntryLogger->log( 'maintenance-script', 'Some nifty comment about ...' );

[mwjames]

Ah, this works, but we basically need all the other stuff back like 'NullLogger.php' etc. so we can have

#1361 should do the trick.

[kghbln]

Hey, that's cool! Sorry that I was not able to get this in even with help.