Upgrading a configuration package/manifest file for compatibility with Config Slicer v3.0.x

If running Config Slicer v3.0.x against a configuration package or manifest file that was generated with a pre-3.0 version of Config Slicer, an error message displays.

Scenario 1: Out-of-Date Configuration Package

In this scenario the error message will resemble the following:

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Package was generated with an older version of config slicer incompatible with the current version (3.0.2).
Please upgrade the configuration package (java -jar upgrade-config-slice.jar 'configuration_package.xml'),
verify the results, and try again. 

SOLUTION:

Upgrade the configuration package file by running upgrade-config-slice.jar against it.

• This jar file should be located in the same directory as Config Slicer (/tools/config-slicer).

• The upgrade script will save an upgraded copy of the configuration package file (to the same directory), which can be inspected and imported.

Example:

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To upgrade a manifest file at the same time, simply add it to the script as a second argument:

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Scenario 2: Out-of-Date Manifest File with no Corresponding Configuration Package

In this scenario the error message resembles the following:

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SOLUTION:

This upgrade process is a little more involved:

1. Extract the list of process types from the manifest file
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2. Format them as parameters to Config Slicer's custom manifest generation for process types.

   For example, assuming we extracted the process types Process Type 1 and Process Type 2 in step 1, the following command would be used:

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3. Run the custom manifest generation.