Do a ruby script that remove data and files of a submission range (from "id1" to "id2" ) of an ontology.

[syphax-bouazzouni]

The need

A script given an "ontology acronym" and a range of submission ids ( from "submission id" to "submission id" ), removes all the data (triple store) and files of the submissions inside that range.

Use case

From "stageportal" server, inside the "/srv/ontoportal/ncbo_cron" folder. The following command :

[ontoportal@stageportal ncbo_cron]$ bin/ncbo_ontology_submissions_eradicate -o MDRFRE --from 2 --to 5

Will :

1. show you the list of all submissions that will be affected(removed).
2. ask you to confirm (by typing "y'" for yes or "n" for no) if you want to remove (the data and files) of all the submission between 2 (included) and 5 (included).

Important: after the script a cache refresh is needed to see the result.

Details

• The arguments "from" and "to" are reversible, i.e. --from 2 --to 5 is equal to --from 5 --to 2
• The script delete the submission folder(files) then the data
• Only the archived "submissions" (not used in production) can be removed

[jonquet]

Script to be suggested to NCBO as a pull request.

[syphax-bouazzouni]

A bug was found : In some case (still to determine) the content (files) of the folders are removed but the folder remains

[syphax-bouazzouni]

The bug was that I used the wrong ruby function to remove files, I used rm_r , that remove only files. Instead of remove_dir that remove dirs and there contents

The hotfix was made at 5f6fd08

The hotfix wasn't tested in production, so I close this issue for now. But we will see in the future if the problem remains.