Prototype Iguana 6 Channel Converter

This is something we are building out incrementally starting with a few customers. It’s not finished yet but is proving helpful in helping us figure out how we can streamline the conversion process.

You'll need 10.1.81 or newer - this video shows how the converter is meant to run

converter.mp4

You'll need to have adventurous spirit in dealing with new software

We are at the stage we need a few customers to try this since with the few customer repos we’ve tried so far we cannot run their code since it depends on local resources.

If you want to try this - please reach out and we can arrange a Zoom to try it with you.

Create a component using +FROM URL - use git@bitbucket.org:interfaceware/iguanaconverter.git

git@bitbucket.org:interfaceware/iguanaconverter.git

This the component repository:

https://bitbucket.org/interfaceware/iguanaconverter/

Edit the custom GitRepo component property to point to a channel export from Iguana 6

Another good repo to try is:

https://bitbucket.org/interfaceware/export

or in copy paste-able form:

https://bitbucket.org/interfaceware/export

The default for this is currently:

https://github.com/interfaceware/iguana-tools

or copy paste-able:

https://github.com/interfaceware/iguana-tools

Funnily enough most of the ‘tools’ in this repo no longer make sense in the context of Iguana X. But it’s a helpful starting point for my conversion prototype work.

Run the component to import and convert all the Iguana 6 channels into components.

It should generate a link a number of components corresponding to your channels.

From reading the code of the converter how could a more detailed map of LLP server components be done?

Go have a look at CHAN/CHANllpSource.lua

This code has the mapping of configuration information from Iguana 6 into Iguana X.

Expect a lot of things not to work at this stage

This is a work in progress. Some of the pieces we are working on are:

From HTTP(S) channels don’t work - we haven’t got the backwardly compatible APIs yet
LLP and File components are partly converted - the Iguana X equivalent components are much simpler
Plugin components are converted with placeholder components - see the next page for more discussion on plugins.

Where is this going?

I am optimistic we can automate most of the work in converting Iguana 6 to Iguana X code. Doing the conversion in this way is very powerful since it will give final control to each customer to go the last mile in terms of doing the conversion in manner which helps you each get the best conversion possible.

It makes it possible to customize the script to target specific problems that might only impact on your user cases of Iguana. More to say about that later.

For now I am working with a few early adopters to use this script as a tool to speed up our process of identifying and eliminating gaps.