[SOLVED] Importing Locations and Address Hierarchy from CSV sources via Metadata Deploy

Implementing
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I am looking for examples on how to import locations and address hierarchy via meta data deploy via code from CSV files.

The example for locations https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Metadata+Deploy+Module#MetadataDeployModule-Bundles does not include:

  • Parent locations - via uuids
  • Location tags - via uuids

The location class https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core/blob/master/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/Location.java only allows addition of a parent location via the locationid which is not possible when the locations are being loaded from a CSV file since only the uuids are available at the time of loading from CSV source.

The address hierarchy only shows how to load the file via the UI but not via code

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You would need to ultimately leverage this method to load a location with a parent and tags via metadatadeploy: https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-metadatadeploy/blob/1.7/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/module/metadatadeploy/bundle/CoreConstructors.java#L235

To achieve this via a CSV I would suggest that you let CSV columns contain parentLocation.name, and tag.name, and you look up the uuids for these while loading.

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@darius thank you very much the Location core constructor solves the issue that I had.

For the address hierarchy I used the example of the HaitiAddressBundle here https://github.com/PIH/openmrs-module-pihcore/blob/e45677a1e66bbbac7bbf8ccf6ef95f4cfe0ea79c/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/module/pihcore/deploy/bundle/haiti/HaitiAddressBundle.java

@mogoodrich any thoughts of moving the address bundles to the Address Hierarchy Module?