Migration Guide

This article describes actions required for migration between major versions of Iotellect.

Migration from Version 5.5X.XX to 5.6X.XX

This guide will help you to prepare your Iotellect Server for upgrading from 5.5.x to 5.6.x version.

Please make a backup of Iotellect Server folder and all databases used in your project.

NoSQL Event Storage (Cassandra) Preparation

This guide helps you to update your embedded NoSQL storage before Iotellect Server update. Iotellect Server of 5.4.x, 5.5.x and 5.60.01 versions uses Cassandra 2.0.12. Iotellect Server uses Cassandra engine of 3.11 version so we should update it to the current version before first launch of 5.6.x version.

The order of necessary steps is described below:

  • Configure JAVA_HOME environment variable in your OS.
  • Download and extract Cassandra server of 2.1 version.
  • Specify correct paths for hints_directory, data_file_directories, commitlog_directory, saved_caches_directory parameters in cassandra.yaml configuration file. It should be targeted to current Cassandra DB folder inside Iotellect Server (nosql_data folder)
  • Start Cassandra server.
  • Execute nodetool upgradesstables from separate Cassandra server's bin folder.
  • Upgrade separate Cassandra server to the next version.

    • You should repeat steps 2-6 for 2.2, 3.0 and 3.11 versions of Cassandra server.

    Expressions Update After Migration to 5.6.x Version

    We updated protocol to reduce amount of metadata. So we removed extra encoding symbols from it.

    You can find extra % symbols in some expressions. In older versions of our platform we stored them in DB. So you should remove extra % symbols from your expressions and save your changes. After this operation the correct data will be saved to configuration DB and will work fine in 5.6.x version.

    Scripts Update

    Since Java API was modified in the new version you'll also need to change your scripts in Java. In particular you'll need to change all your instructions with DataTable class (e.g. DataTable dataTable = new DataTable()) to instructions using SimpleDataTable (SimpleDataTable simpleDataTable = new SimpleDataTable()).  

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