Deploying Kylin cubes from the script

The metadata of analytics solutions are frequently similar. Apache Kylin provides the ability to move or edit the metadata of different objects using the command line. This speeds up the development process. 

Here below are the steps for deploying a cube from a script (Listing 1):

1) Make a backup of the metadata;

2) Create a folder for further metadata recovery (e.g., my_restore);

3) Create there folders project, cube, cube_desc.

4) Copy the file project/name_project.json into the directory my_restore/project.

5) In /my_restore/project/name_project.json, write the name of the new cube.

6) Copy the files of the cube you want to change/expand into cube and cube_desc directory with the new name of the cube in the file name.

7) In cube/name_new_cube.json set a new unique name (corresponding to the file name) and UUID.vi

8) In cube_desc/name_new_cube.json set a new unique name (corresponding to the file name) and UUID, and at the end of the file signature (signature), which should always end with ==

9) Retrieve metadata from my_restore. This will add the metadata to the existing metadata.