topic Renaming a namespace in Alfresco Archive

Renaming a namespace

ukdavo — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:54:03 GMT

Hi thereWe're refactoring some custom content models, standardising on naming conventions, etc. As part of this we'd like to rename a custom namespace. Unfortunately we're getting errors on attempting to apply an aspect that references the renamed namespace to the effect that the aspect doesn't exis

Re: Renaming a namespace

mitpatoliya — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:40:06 GMT

Of course it is something which should not be changed.
You should not changes the namespace.

You can try once with full reindexing.
in you alfresco-global.properties file add this
index.recovery.mode=FULL
and restart the server.

Re: Renaming a namespace

ukdavo — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:33:46 GMT

Tried that but I get the same error:


"callstack" : 
  [ 
       ""      ,"org.alfresco.service.cmr.dictionary.InvalidAspectException: 08040064 The aspect is invalid: {http:\/\/www.mycompany.co.uk\/model\/content\/1.0}myaspect"
      ,"org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.addAspect(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:783)"
      ,"sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor523.invoke(Unknown Source)"
      ,"sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)"
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Note that 'http://www.mycompany.co.uk/model/content/1.0}myaspect' is the old QName.

Re: Renaming a namespace

mitpatoliya — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:54:14 GMT

Are you using the same prefix for both of your old and new namespace uri?
That could create problem.
IF no then only option I see is remove the old aspect from all your nodes via script and add the new aspect via script.

Re: Renaming a namespace

ukdavo — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:54:43 GMT

Yes - I'm using the same prefix. I had already removed all nodes that used the aspect in question (incl. clearing out the recycle bin). I ended up starting from a fresh DB. Not ideal but we're not in production yet. Thanks for the suggestions.