whitehall: Pushing content to Publishing API
After seeding the Whitehall database, not all content will automatically be pushed to the Publishing API. An example of this is role appointments: you might notice that pages like the prime minister page and the ministers index look a little bare.
The republishing user interface can be used to push the majority of content to the Publishing API:
- "All documents" - meaning all editionable content.
- "All individual pages" - certain individual pages represented in Whitehall by
presenters. This doesn't cover every presenter-based page in Whitehall, only
those listed at the top of the republishing user interface, and whose classes
are referenced in
Admin::RepublishingHelper#republishable_pages. - "All non-editionable content" - meaning everything other that documents/editionable content but excluding individual pages.
Limitations
The usefulness of the data pushed to the Publishing API is limited by the comprehensiveness of the seed data. Seed data might need expanding if this process doesn't provide the content needed to support specific development needs.
As mentioned above, some individual pages/presenter-based content is currently unsupported.
Alternatives
An alternative is to replicate data from integration, but this is a slow process and not always successful.