[Koha-bugs] [Bug 7157] Improve the j2a.pl cronjob

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7157

Liz Rea <wizzyrea at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Liz Rea <wizzyrea at gmail.com> 2012-01-01 18:08:26 UTC ---
Created attachment 7005
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Bug 7157 - Improve the j2a.pl cronjob

- Calculates updates date based on the upper age limit defined in the patron
categories.
- Allows libraries to work on all branches or only one.
- Allows libraries to specify which Adult patron category to update child
categories to.
- Allows libraries to specify a single Child patron category to update to an
adult category.
- Has a test mode to display what transforms would be done on the database
without executing the changes.

Includes improved help, copyright statement, and uses warnings. Also
incorporates Paul's suggestions regarding --help and --man.

To test:

Create two patron categories, a child and an adult category. Make sure they
have an upper age limit.

Create or modify some patrons in multiple branches that fall into the category
of "my birthdate is less than or equal to today's date minus the upper age
limit"

1. Run the script with no flags - nothing should  happen, it will suggest you
try the --help flag.
2. Run the script with the --help flag - you should see the help
3. Run the script with the -f=<child category> -t=<adult category> -v -n -
should show you results from all branches but take no action and tell you what
its computations are.
4. Run the script with the -f=<child category> -t=<adult category>
-b=<branchcode> -v -n - should show you results from your specified branch, but
take no action and tell you what it's computations are.
5. Run the script with the -f=<child category> -t=<adult category> -v
-b=<branchcode> - should show you the computations and tell you how many
patrons were modified in your single branch. It will not show you the
information on which patrons were updated.
6. Run the script with the -f=<child category> -t=<adult category> -v - should
show you the computations and tell you how many patrons were modified across
all branches.
7. Run the script without the -v flag, if you care what the non-verbose output
looks like.

Fixed in this revision: Known limitation - if you give it an unknown tocat, it
will fail with a rather ugly error.

Minor changes to the commit message to reflect new longopts (which I missed the
last time)
There is more this script could do, please feel free to take it and run.

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