[opencms-dev] scheduled task - publish "page" type resource

[Thomas Joseph Olaes]

Hello list,

I've been trying to find an answer to my problem for a few hours now
and have been scouring the source code and google to no avail...

let's say I have a file in the VFS called:

"/test.html"

and I have a scheduled task that has the following in launch():

// set project to offlineproject
...

cmsobject.lockResource("/test.html");
// read /test.html in the VFS
...

// do stuff to /test.html in the VFS
...

// save the content to /test.html in the VFS
...
cmsobject.touch("/test.html");
cmsobject.unlockResource("/test.html");
cmsobject.publishResource("/test.html");

I'm pretty much doing the above, and when I publish the resource in my
scheduled task it looks like the resource is published in the DB, and
I even get the output in the Tomcat command console:

...
Publishing /system/bodies/sites/site1/index.html
Publishing /sites/site1/index.html
------ Checking filesystem links ...
------ .. filesystem link check finished
...

The above is actual text from the output of doing the command
cmsobject.publishResource(sResourceName);

I'm really at a loss here. I notice when I do a normal publish through
the OpenCMS app, I see:

Publishing resource ...
Publishing /sites/site1/test1.html
Publishing /system/bodies/sites/site1/test1.html
Static export, number of starting links is: 2
Exporting /sites/site1/test1.html
Skipping /system/bodies/sites/site1/test1.html
... static export finished
Checking filesystem links ...
.. filesystem link check finished
... the resource has been published

It looks to me I'm missing this section involving the static export...
but when I look at the file
com/opencms/workspace/CmsPublishResourceThread.java in the source code
all I see is

(line 60)           
m_report.println(m_report.key("report.publish_resource_begin"),
I_CmsReport.C_FORMAT_HEADLINE);
(line 61)            m_cms.publishResource(m_resourceName, false, m_report);
(line 62)           
m_report.println(m_report.key("report.publish_resource_end"),
I_CmsReport.C_FORMAT_HEADLINE);

where m_cms is a CmsObject acquired through the Servlet interface. the
lines 60 and 62 just print out: "Publishing resource ..." and "... the
resource has been published", so I expected if I just did
publishResource(sResourceName) which actually maps to
publishResource(sResourceName, false, new CmsShellReport()), which
looks similar enough to me...

Maybe I'm missing something set within the cmsobject? There's a bunch
of different variables and stuff that I've skimmed over and I know
there's one thing here that's so obvious but I can't see it right now.
I even checked cmsobject.getStaticExportProperties().isStaticExportEnabled()
to see if it was passing as true and it was, so that whole code inside
that if statement (CmsObject.java, lines 2445-2473) is running.

So to summarize: I can't get cmsobject.publishResource(String
resourceName); to work from within a scheduled task.

Thanks in advance for any help given to me, I tried putting up as
detailed information above as I could and the steps I've taken so far
to try to resolve this if it helps any.

-TJ