Exporting

The Exporter is a tool for exporting the election data from the database into CSV, XML and a binary format used by the Viewer.

Configuration

The following configuration variables are defined in <gswing_home>/etc/properties.cfg:

serPath=<gswing_home>/data # the directory storing the serialised files

serFileName=overall.txt # the file containing overall results

Note: the file extension .txt for files that are not text files is a current work around for file name extensions restriction on the web server gswing Scotland resides, this will change in the future.

Using the Exporter

The export is invoked from Tools -> Exporter, and the options are:

Export database to XML

Select this option to export the election data to an XML file.
You will be presented with a list of elections in the database. Select one or more you wish to create an XML file for.
The XML file will be named after the election name and inserted into <gswing>/data/xml

Export database to CSV (comma seperated file)

Select this option to export the election data to a CSV file.
You will be presented with a list of elections in the database. Select one or more you wish to create a CSV file for.

Extract to serialised files.

The Extractor exports the election data into compressed serialised files that are read by the Viewer. It creates a file for each region in the database (named <region_name.txt>), a single file containing all regional results and a single file containing the overall results.