Roxy Deployer doesn't work with ML7 due to change in eval.xqy

[peterskim12]

It looks like engineering renamed the /Apps/qconsole/endpoints/eval.xqy to evaler.xqy and also changed the endpoint definition. Roxy uses this service to execute adhoc XQuery prior to the existence of a defined application.

I took a look at what's needed to fix this. I think there's a bug in the endpoint definition in that it expects named parameters such as resulttype, action, querytype but at the same time, it also expects the ad-hoc query to be submitted via the request body. I've sent an email to engineering for more info.

[peterskim12]

For now, maybe we just do what it takes to get this to work but I wonder if a better long-term solution for this is to rely on the Configuration Manager and Packaging functionality in MarkLogic to apply configuration. I know this is closely tied to the MarkLogic server versions... Have we ever considered creating different Roxy branches that are associated with major MarkLogic versions?

[paxtonhare]

The packaging API has been woefully inadequate at allowing bootstrapping. I'm happy to discuss why over IM. 

​--Paxton 

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For now, maybe we just do what it takes to get this to work but I wonder if a better long-term solution for this is to rely on the Configuration Manager and Packaging functionality in MarkLogic to apply configuration. I know this is closely tied to the MarkLogic server versions... Have we ever considered creating different Roxy branches that are associated with major MarkLogic versions?

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[dmcassel]

The packaging API falls short of what bootstrapping does, which means we would still need to use the same strategy for a lot of what Roxy does. Given that, it hasn't made sense to work in the packaging API yet. If that API got to the point where we could completely replace deploy/lib/xquery/setup.xqy, I think it would be time to branch and use that approach.

[peterskim12]

Ok, sounds good.

I think this would be a good opportunity to get more involved with engineering to talk about what the gaps are and see if some of what's implemented in Roxy should also be addressed in the packaging API (if you guys haven't tried doing that already)...

[dmcassel]

Requires ML 7.0-20130725 or later.