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Archivematica has one or more MCPClient instances to perform the actual work. They are gearman worker implementations that inform the gearman server what tasks they can perform, and wait for the server to assign them a task. When a client starts, it connects to the specified gearman server and provides a list of modules they support. When the MCPServer informs the gearman server of a Task that the client supports and the gearman server assigns the job to the client, the client will process the Job, and return the results to the gearman server, which in turn will return them to the MCPServer.
Client script summaries
Client scripts do the actual work in Archivematica. They are anything that can be run on the command line, from builtins like mv and cp, to custom-written scripts.
New scripts are defined in src/MCPClient/lib/archivematicaClientModules, which is what is registered with Gearman on MCPClient startup.
| Improvement note: archivematicaClientModules lists both 'supportedCommandSpecial' and 'supportedCommands'. This distinction may have once been based on scripts that relied on external services, but serves no purpose now and should be removed. |
The name is what the StandardTasksConfig table will refer to them as, and the value is the script that will be run. Some are defined as shell builtins (eg copy_v0.0 is cp). Most are paths to a script in the clientScripts directory, using the %clientScriptsDirectory% replacement variable. The name of the client script is usually the same as the name in archivematicaClientModules, but for very old scripts may have ‘archivematica’ at the beginning (eg createMETS_v2.0 = archivematicaCreateMETS2.py) or be named more pythonically (eg parseExternalMETS = parse_external_mets.py). Entries are added alphabetically.
The version (eg copy_v0.0) was originally intended to be used to version the scripts as they changed, and be able to track those changes, but that did not happen. Newer scripts may not have the version defined.
Notable client scripts include:
- createMETS_v0.0: Generates the transfer METS file
- createMETS_v2.0: Generates the AIP METS file