I don't get it here. The subject of the mail talks about a checkin operation, 
the body of the email talks about checkout...

> Adobe Drive 2 does the following when you request a checkout:
> POST /.../repo/checkedout

If we talk about checkout, I am not sure why the client sends a content link. 
This would be pretty useless in this case, because creating the PWC is only a 
task for the server.

So the question then would be: Do we need to throw an exception for useless 
information that we get? I think reporting a warning to the log file would be 
sufficient in this case. However if we talk about a checkin (and the client 
does not transfer content inline but refers to a foreign destination) then all 
the issues Florian reports can't be silently ignored...

Florent could you clarify the use case?

Jens



-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Müller [mailto:florian.muel...@alfresco.com] 
Sent: Montag, 22. November 2010 15:45
To: chemistry-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: AD2 and checkin

Hi Florent,

I intentionally didn't implement that features because there are too many 
difficult questions. 
What basically happens here is that the CMIS repository connects to a HTTP 
server to get the content.

- In many enterprise environments that's not possible because of firewalls. The 
server can't talk to an arbitrary host for security reasons.

- If the content is hosted on a client machine, it is even more unlikely since 
desktop firewalls will prevent that.

- Should the CMIS repository forward the given credentials to the HTTP server? 
Hell, no, that would be a security hole. But, yes, it has to authenticate in 
order to get access to the content...

- If we forward the credentials, we really, really should use HTTPS. Do we 
accept self-signed certificates? Probably not. Does the HTTP server running on 
a users laptop has a real certificate installed? Probably not.

- What if the credentials for the CMIS repository and the HTTP server are 
different? A very likely scenario...

- What if the credentials are not user/password based and we can't forward them 
because we don't know them?


I don't know how to provide a generic external content implementation, but I'm 
open for ideas...


- Florian


On 22/11/2010 10:44, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Adobe Drive 2 does the following when you request a checkout:
> 
> POST /.../repo/checkedout
> Content-Type: application/atom+xml;type=entry
> 
> <atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";>
>    ...
>    <atom:content
> src="http://localhost.../.../repo/content?id=5f8a7a2e-6175-4111-84a3-f70e2d83702e";
> type="image/jpeg" />
>    <cmisra:object
> xmlns:cmisra="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/restatom/200908/";>
>    ...
>    </cmisra:object>
>    ...
> </atom:entry>
> 
> In particular it provides a content src (the one from the entry
> itself), which OpenCMIS doesn't like:
> HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
> 
> This is due to code in AtomEntryParser.parseAtomContent:
>              } else if (ATTR_SRC.equals(attrName.getLocalPart())) {
>                  throw new CmisNotSupportedException("External content
> not supported!");
>              }
> 
> I'm not sure this is the right thing to do here, can we just ignore
> this external content?
> 
> Florent
> 
> 
> 

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