Archiving a package in guvnor archives the global model?

[rockypulley]

When I have a package in guvnor that has the model imported from the global area then try to archive that package, it appears to be archiving the global model as well. So all other packages which use that model are broken. Then I try to unarchive the global model but I get errors that the package that used it was archived. I have to restart tomcat and then I am able to unarchive the global model again.

Has anyone run into this issue and am I just doing it wrong?

[jmccarter]

We are running into this same problem at a current client.  Using Guvnor 5.4.0; the client has fact models defined in the global area as they are used across many packages.  If someone archives a package which has imported one of these fact models from the global area, the fact model gets archived as well which breaks any rules in any other packages using this fact model.  I noticed that there is a bug reported over a year ago that nobody has commented on:  https://issues.jboss.org/browse/GUVNOR-1518

On a related note, I was thinking that if you to "unimport" the model from the package prior to archiving the package that would be a workable workaround, but I haven't been able to find a way to do this.  Anyone have any ideas?

-Justin

[rockypulley]

FYI, one way around it is to use the REST API, if you issue an HTTP delete to the package URL then it will remove it without screwing up your global model.

[jmccarter]

Great!  Thanks for the info Rocky

-Justin