marcosblandim / liferay-setup-script

Script for setting up a Liferay Portal

Liferay Setup Script

Multi platform script for setting up a Liferay Portal

What it does?

1. downloads Liferay bundle (if it doesn't exists yet) with the following command

blade gw initBundle

2. gets the properties from the selected environment, sets liferay.home and database url name properties and inserts it in a portal-ext.properties file inside bundles folder

Requirements

• python ^3
• blade ^4.0.9

Usage

1. clone the repository inside a Liferay Gradle Workspace

git clone https://github.com/marcosblandim/liferay-setup-script.git

2. execute it with the default values

python liferay-setup-script

• usage example

python liferay-setup-script --log-level DEBUG -d lportal -e dev /some/liferay/gradle/workspace/path

use the following command to get help

python liferay-setup-script --help

Future improvements

• make it possible to pass all fields available in wizard setup, even the database driver (see portal-impl properties file)
  • have default value for all fields
• improve docs
  • usage
• make it works for many versions (currently only works on 7.3)
• add the option to create the database and the portal in a docker
• improve logging
• external bundle option -> use bundle located outside the workspace
  • validate liferay.workspace.home.dir inside gradle.properties file
• flag for reseting bundles folder
• implement testing
• fix args help text
• validate workspace folder (https://github.com/liferay/liferay-blade-cli/blob/feaeddf8251999c262e3004cc8675bc82eb09c7e/cli/src/main/java/com/liferay/blade/cli/gradle/GradleWorkspaceProvider.java#L250)
• generate executable
• use some commit name validator
• dynamically check if blade is in the latest version
• add 3 missing properties: company.default.name (default site name), default.admin.first.name and default.admin.last.name (default admin first and last name)
• should the wizard env have de dev properties?