Ingest Data for Testing

To ingest data for testing purposes, use the IngestTest action. You can use this action to view the output of the ingestion process for a small amount of data, without the data being indexed into IDOL.

TIP: CFS includes an XSL template to help you send IngestTest actions. Open a web browser and navigate to http://host:7000/action=IngestTest&Template=IngestTest (where host is the machine where CFS is running and 7000 is the CFS ACI port).

Micro Focus does not support the XSL template, it is provided only as an example of a template that you could build.

The IngestTest action has the following parameters:

/action=IngestTest
             &config=[base64_encoded_config]
             &adds=[URL_encoded_adds_xml]

IngestTest is similar to the Ingest action, but has the following differences which make it suitable for testing:

  • IngestTest is a synchronous action, and the document data is returned in the ACI response.
  • Indexing, whether as a result of ingestion or as a result of an import task, is disabled.
  • Update and Delete commands are disabled (you cannot use the updates and removes action parameters like you can with the Ingest action).
  • Any writer tasks that have been configured (IdxWriter, XmlWriter, JsonWriter, CsvWriter, SqlWriter) are disabled.
  • Logging to the import log stream is disabled. The log messages are redirected to the action response.
  • The global Lua variable is_test is set to true. You can use this variable in your Lua scripts to prevent certain parts of your scripts from running when you use the IngestTest action.

For more information about the IngestTest action and its parameters, refer to the Connector Framework Server Reference.