Iguana 6 Channel Importer

This is something we are building out incrementally with customers migrating to Iguana X. It’s evolving and proving very helpful in helping us figure out how we can streamline the conversion process.

Reminder: Reach out to work with us! We’ve successfully helped a few customers use the converter. It’s been extremely helpful in quickly identifying issues we need to address to help them port over.

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

converter.mp4

Add Iguana 6 Channel Importer from + Component

Click the Iguana 6 Channel Importer and ADD.

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

You can test with the default repo included in the component or you can use your own Iguana 6.1 channel export!

https://bitbucket.org/interfaceware/export

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

It should generate and link a number of components corresponding to the channels in the repository.

Analyzing the Translator code:

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.

Some areas that we are expanding on

This is a work in progress. What we are doing is going through a practical process of exploring how in practice customers use Iguana. What are the important use patterns that we have to make easy to bring across into the new system.
We aim to quickly identify our customers can get the majority of their interfaces ported over in a smooth safe fashion.

How does the shim library work?

The shim library allows us to simulate API functions which don’t exist under Iguana X that used to be under Iguana 6. This includes things like iguana.channelName() which don’t make sense for Iguana X which no longer has channels. Here’s more documentation on shim functions:

Where is this going?

We are 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 have an impact on your use cases of Iguana.

For now we are working with a number of customers to use this tool to accelerate the process of identifying and eliminating gaps and making Iguana X a practical platform to migrate to.

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