bigbluebutton-Github/bbb-recording-imex

BBB-Recording-Importer

Imports and parses recording metadata.xml files and stores the data in a Postgresql database

How to use

0. Ensure the required software is installed

• Install docker (if you're using docker-dev development environment for BBB this is already installed)
  • You would either need to add your user to the docker group or you might have to prepend your docker-compose command with sudo

sudo usermod -aG docker `whoami`
sudo reboot

• Install docker compose - a sample set of steps are listed below but could likely be installed in a different way too:
  • sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  • sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  • docker-compose --version
• Note that you do not need to install Postgres DB on your own

1. In bbb-common-web

   • cd bbb-common-web
   • Edit the ./.env file and set the environment variables (the default values should work fine)
   • Run the ./hibernate.cfg.sh script to generate the hibernate config file
   • Run docker-compose up to start up the docker container containing the Postgresql database
   • Interact with the database using the psql script

2. In bbb-recording-imex

   • Unit tests for parsing and persisting recording metadata can be found in src/test/java/org/bigbluebutton/recording/
   • Edit the metadataDirectory variables in the test files to point to where the recording metadata can be found. The default value "metadata" refers to ./src/metadata and should work too.
   • Run the unit tests using the command mvn test
   • Use the deploy.sh script to compile the program
   • Run the program with the recording-imex.sh script found in ~/usr/local/bin
   • Use the --help option to see the usage

   Usage: {-e|-i } [-s ] [PATH] Import/export recording(s) to/from PATH. The default PATH is /var/bigbluebutton/published/presentation -e export recording(s) -i import recording(s) and indicate if they should be persisted [true|false] -s ID of single recording to be imported/exported

   Examples

   ~/usr/local/bin/recording-imex.sh -i true -s random-7739095 /var/bigbluebutton/published/presentation/1abbc41a2f2faf1d754dbd130fba9ae072c6e742-1652301432519/metadata.xml

   ~/usr/local/bin/recording-imex.sh -i true /var/bigbluebutton/published/presentation/

Testing the new recording service

1. In bigbluebutton-web
   • Edit the "recordingService" bean in /grails-app/conf/spring/resources.xml to use "org.bigbluebutton.api.service.impl.RecordingServiceDbImpl"
   • Use "org.bigbluebutton.api.service.impl.RecordingServiceFileImpl" if you want to use the traditional file system service
2. In bbb-recording-imex
   • Use the get-recordings.sh script to test the getRecordings endpoint on the recording API
   • Edit the "SALT" variable to have the value of your security salt
   • The script accepts arguments through the use of flags
     • "-i" for the meetingID
     • "-r" for the recordID(s)
     • "-s" for the state(s)
     • "-m" for the metadata