Example: Prevent data copying at publish time

This script blocks data from being copied to the server at publish time. The option to block data copying became available at ArcGIS 10.1 Service Pack 1.

When you publish an item such as a map document to ArcGIS Server, the server checks all the data sources referenced in the document to determine if they are registered with ArcGIS Server. Data from any unregistered sources is copied to the server by default and placed in the server directories. As a server administrator, you may want to block the data copying in order to force data registration and prevent datasets from accumulating on the server.

You only need to run this script once on your server to block all data copying.

# Demonstrates how to disable automatic data copying when publishing to the server
# For Http calls
import httplib, urllib, json

# For system tools
import sys

# For reading passwords without echoing
import getpass

# Defines the entry point into the script
def main(argv=None):
    # Print some info
    print
    print "This sample script disables automatic data copying when publishing to the server"
    print
    
    # Ask for admin/publisher user name and password
    username = raw_input("Enter user name: ")
    password = getpass.getpass("Enter password: ")

    # Ask for server name
    serverName = raw_input("Enter server name: ")
    serverPort = 6080
    
    # Get a token
    token = getToken(username, password, serverName, serverPort)
    if token == "":
        print "Could not generate a token with the username and password provided."
        return
    
    # Construct URL to start a service - as an example the Geometry service
    UpdateDatastoreConfigurationURL = "/arcgis/admin/data/config/update"
    
    # This request only needs the token and the response formatting parameter 
    params = urllib.urlencode({'token': token, 'f': 'json','datastoreConfig':'{"blockDataCopy": true}'})
    
    headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"}
    
    # Connect to URL and post parameters    
    httpConn = httplib.HTTPConnection(serverName, serverPort)
    httpConn.request("POST", UpdateDatastoreConfigurationURL, params, headers)
    
    # Read response
    response = httpConn.getresponse()
    if (response.status != 200):
        httpConn.close()
        print "Error while attempting to change the data store configuration."
        return
    else:
        data = response.read()
        httpConn.close()
        
        # Check that data returned is not an error object
        if not assertJsonSuccess(data):          
            print "Error returned by operation. " + data
        else:
            print "Operation completed successfully!"
        
        return


# A function to generate a token given username, password and the adminURL.
def getToken(username, password, serverName, serverPort):
    # Token URL is typically http://server[:port]/arcgis/admin/generateToken
    tokenURL = "/arcgis/admin/generateToken"
    
    # URL-encode the token parameters
    params = urllib.urlencode({'username': username, 'password': password, 'client': 'requestip', 'f': 'json'})
    
    headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"}
    
    # Connect to URL and post parameters
    httpConn = httplib.HTTPConnection(serverName, serverPort)
    httpConn.request("POST", tokenURL, params, headers)
    
    # Read response
    response = httpConn.getresponse()
    if (response.status != 200):
        httpConn.close()
        print "Error while fetching tokens from admin URL. Please check the URL and try again."
        return
    else:
        data = response.read()
        httpConn.close()
        
        # Check that data returned is not an error object
        if not assertJsonSuccess(data):            
            return
        
        # Extract the token from it
        token = json.loads(data)        
        return token["token"]            
        

# A function that checks that the input JSON object 
#  is not an error object.  
def assertJsonSuccess(data):
    obj = json.loads(data)
    if 'status' in obj and obj['status'] == "error":
        print "Error: JSON object returns an error. " + str(obj)
        return False
    else:
        return True
    
        
# Script start
if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))

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