[EP-tech] Connecting to generated MySQL databases & searching by divisions with EPrints API

[Berry, Rob]

Hey,

Two quick queries:

# Connecting to MySQL databases

I've been trying to connect to the one of the MySQL databases generated by EPrints, as created through the Debian repository.

I'm using the details from /archives/<archive_name>/cfg/cfg.d/database.pl. However, MySQL returns the following:

robert at robert-uol:~$ mysql -u test -p 
Enter password: 
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'test'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Is there something I'm missing? The reason I wanted to actually do this is to check what data is in the database itself, as I was having another problem, detailed below.

# Searching by divisions with the EPrints API

I'm writing a script at the moment to move all prints from within one division into another. I have a function that is supposed to look up all prints in a given division (which I am passing as a string): https://gist.github.com/2787296

However, iterating through all the divisions in the subjects file, this function always returns a result set of zero prints. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or is this something to do with the test data imported into EPrints 3? (This is why I wanted to have a look at the data on a database level.)

Thanks for your time!

Best wishes, Rob