Hi,

should the Batch API in the current dev release 6.x-1.x-dev from 2010-Jul-11 be operational? If I'm trying to import anything, it does give me an "Access Denied" for user #1.

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dman commented

Fair question. Yes, it should work, last I looked. Not sure what may be up

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asb commented

OK, thanks for the quick reply. Some other batch API operations seem to work properly (VBO, bulk image import through 'image' module), however I've seen pretty weird stuff with batch API in the last couple of months.

Please feel free to request any possibly helpful information from my end. I'll spending the next few days with HTML imports, so I'll be available for trying to put debug statements etc. into the code, if this might help.

Btw, the current dev release works pretty smoothly out-of the box when dealing with well preprocessed and clean HTML. The only major drawback I've encountered so far is the disfunctional batch API - that means that I have to process a couple of thousand files in chunks of a few dozend files. Very, very boring stuff ;)

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dman commented

Very boring.
I've not yet made it all the way back to my base after Drupalcon (Been in transit and detoured since then), but I'll see what's happened to the -dev when I get a chance to sit down.
I arbitrarily commit minor fixes all the time, and may have messed up, like left some debug in that kills something.
The good news is that I'm slowly working towards having a test suite ... it's slow though.

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asb commented

After I realized that I had forgotten to manually delete hundreds of _vti_cnf dirs (the file exlusion pattern seems to be ignored), I got the chance to test out the functionality of the batch API by bulk deleting 1,900 bogus nodes. This took a while, but worked flawlessly on this site. In a few days I'll have the next section preprocessed and will try to reproduce this on a different server and with a different setup, and will report then back here.

(Note to self: Remember to do an $ rm -rf `find . -type d -name _vti_cnf` next time!)

Greetings, -asb

PS: Wow, from Danmark to New Zealand, around the world in one day, what a trip... sounds like heavy jetlag and lots of coffee ahead of you ;)

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dman commented

The _hidden filter may have stopped working when I added the ability to process subdirs recursively - to handle massive sites.
Sounds like a new issue.

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dman commented
Status: Active » Closed (cannot reproduce)

Clearing the old 6.x issues from the issue queue for a cleanup.