Preserve creation dates and creators through export/import?

[ejucovy]

I don't know offhand if it's possible to preserve original creation dates and creators when reimporting content from an export. If we can't, it's not a blocker, but it would be a shame to lose that data, so it's worth investigating.

This pertains to all major content types -- members, projects, mailing lists, wiki pages -- I assume the answer (and technique, if there is one) will be the same for all content types.

[ejucovy]

Looks like it might be possible to set creation date like so:

from DateTime import DateTime
creation_date = DateTime(some_datetime_string)
obj.getField("creation_date").set(obj, creation_date)

...and then I suppose performing some catalog reindexing?

[ejucovy]

Looks like Creator can be set like so:

obj.Schema()['creators'].set(obj, ('ejucovy',))

[ejucovy]

Will file specific tickets when issues are found.