Work with URL provider properties files

Use properties files to create or change uniform resource locator (URL) provider properties.

Determine the changes to make to your URL provider configuration or its configuration objects.

Start the wsadmin scripting tool. To start wsadmin using the Jython language, run the wsadmin -lang jython command from the bin directory of the server profile.

Use a properties file to create, modify, or delete a URL provider object and its configuration properties.

Run administrative commands using wsadmin to create or change a properties file for a URL provider, validate the properties, and apply them to the configuration.

Action	Procedure
create	Set properties and then run the applyConfigProperties command.
modify	Edit properties and then run the applyConfigProperties command.
delete	Uncomment #DELETE=true and run the deleteConfigProperties command.

Optionally, we can use interactive mode with the commands:

AdminTask.command_name('-interactive')

Tasks

• Create a URL provider and its properties.

  1. Create a properties file for a URLProvider object.

     Open an editor and create a URL provider properties file. We can copy an example properties file in this step into an editor and modify the properties as needed for our situation.

     An example properties file for a URLProvider object named myProvider at cell scope follows:

     #
     # Header
     #
     ResourceType=URLProvider
     ImplementingResourceType=URLProvider
     ResourceId=Cell=!{cellName}:URLProvider=myProvider
     #DELETE=true
     #
     
     #
     #Properties
     #
     streamHandlerClassName=unused
     classpath={}
     name=myProvider
     nativepath={}
     description=null
     providerType=null #readonly
     protocol=unused
     
     
     EnvironmentVariablesSection
     #
     #
     #Environment Variables
     cellName=WASCell06
     

  2. Run the applyConfigProperties command to create a URL provider configuration.

     Running the applyConfigProperties command applies the properties file to the configuration. In this Jython example, the optional -reportFileName parameter produces a report named report.txt:

     AdminTask.applyConfigProperties(['-propertiesFileName myObjectType.props -reportFileName report.txt'])
     

• Modify an existing URL provider.
  1. Obtain a properties file for the URL provider to change.

     We can extract a properties file for a URLProvider object using the extractConfigProperties command.

  2. Open the properties file in an editor and change the properties as needed.

     Ensure that the environment variables in the properties file match the system.

  3. Run the applyConfigProperties command to change a URL provider configuration.

• If we no longer need a URL provider, we can delete the entire URL provider object.

  To delete the entire object, specify DELETE=true in the header section of the properties file and run the deleteConfigProperties command; for example:

  AdminTask.deleteConfigProperties('[-propertiesFileName myObjectType.props -reportFileName report.txt]') 
  

Use the properties file to configure and manage the URL provider object.

What to do next

Save the changes to the configuration.

Subtopics

• Work with URL properties files
  Use properties files to create or change uniform resource locator (URL) properties.

Extracting properties files

Create server, cluster, application, or authorization group objects using properties files and wsadmin scripting

Deleting server, cluster, application, or authorization group objects using properties files

PropertiesBasedConfiguration .