Configurable Publish Workflow Operation
ID: publish-configure
Description
The ConfigurablePublishWorkflowOperationHandler will distribute the given elements and create a publication element
for them. By default it will retract all published download elements before publishing anew.
Parameter Table
These are the keys that can be configured for this operation in the workflow definition. At least one media package
element must match the supplied source-flavors or source-tags (either for download or streaming or both) or else
the operation will not know what to publish. The channel-id and url-pattern are also mandatory.
| Key | Description | Example | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| channel-id | Id of the channel to publish to | internal |
|
| mimetype | Mime type of the published element | text/html |
Type of last distributed element |
| download-source-flavors | Flavors of the download media package elements to publish | */trimmed |
|
| download-source-tags | Tags of the download media package elements to publish | engage-download |
|
| streaming-source-flavors | Flavors of the streaming media package elements to publish | */trimmed |
|
| streaming-source-tags | Tags of the streaming media package elements to publish | engage-streaming |
|
| url-pattern | Pattern to create the URI for the published from | ftp://…/${event_id} |
|
| with-published-elements | Use the current contents of the media package instead of publishing elements to a channel | true |
|
| check-availability | Check if the media is reachable after publication | false |
false |
| strategy | Strategy for when there is already published material | fail |
retract |
| mode | How elements are distributed | mixed |
bulk |
| retract-streaming | Whether to also retract streaming elements * | true |
false |
* Enable if you have published streaming elements to this channel.
Mode
The configuration key mode can be used to control how media package elements are being distributed:
| Mode | Description |
|---|---|
| single | For each media package element, a job is created |
| mixed | One job for all media package elements that are not tracks and one job per track |
| bulk | One job for all media package elements |
This allows you to choose a lot of jobs and parallelism (single), just one job and no parallelism (bulk)
or something in between (mixed). The best choice depends on your setup.
URL Pattern Variables
These are the variables available in the url-pattern configuration. They will be replaced with the value during the
execution of the workflow operation.
| Variable | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
${event_id} |
The event (media package) identifier | 18633e04-1a3f-4bbb-a72a-99c15deba1b9 |
${player_path} |
The player path for the event | /paella/ui/watch.html?id= |
${publication_id} |
The id of this publication. | 54f6c12d-8e68-4ec8-badf-cd045b33d01e |
${series_id} |
The id of the series if available | 36f3c5d8-ad4d-4dab-beb1-1400ffab4a69 |
The organization properties are also available and can be accessed with the org_ prefix followed by the property name,
eg. ${org_player} will be replaced by the value of the organization property named player.
Note some organization properties contain an . (period) in their name (e.g. org.opencastproject.external.api.url).
As this character have an special meaning in the FreeMarker library (used for substitution), all occurrences are replaced
with _ (underscore).
Additional to the organization properties you can use org_id, org_name, org_admin_role and
org_anonymous_role as well.
Publication Channel Labels and Icons
Using this workflow operation, you can create arbitrary custom publication channels. Without further action, the
administrative user interface will label these channels "Custom". You can specify both a label and an icon for each
custom publication channels in the configuration files etc/listproviders/publication.channel.labels.properties and
etc/listproviders/publication.channel.icons.properties.
Operation Example
Publish to internal channel:
<operation
id="publish-configure"
description="Publish to internal channel">
<configurations>
<configuration key="download-source-tags">engage</configuration>
<configuration key="channel-id">internal</configuration>
<configuration key="url-pattern">http://localhost:8080/admin-ng/index.html#/events/events/${event_id}/tools/playback</configuration>
</configurations>
</operation>
Publish to external API:
<operation
id="publish-configure"
description="Publish to external api publication channel">
<configurations>
<configuration key="channel-id">api</configuration>
<configuration key="mimetype">application/json</configuration>
<configuration key="download-source-tags">engage-download,engage-streaming</configuration>
<configuration key="url-pattern">http://api.oc.org/api/events/${event_id}</configuration>
<configuration key="check-availability">true</configuration>
</configurations>
</operation>
Create a meta publication. A reference to external systems like a media portal:
<operation
id="publish-configure"
description="Publish to meta publication channel">
<configurations>
<configuration key="channel-id">edu-reference</configuration>
<configuration key="mimetype">text/html</configuration>
<configuration key="url-pattern">https://org.mediaportal.edu/events/${event_id}</configuration>
<configuration key="check-availability">false</configuration>
</configurations>
</operation>