Hi Felipe, On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Felipe Roos da Rosa <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hi Folks! > > I'm planning to implement OMG Reusable Asset Specification within Archiva. > The "quest" involves having archiva supporting the .ras file format, which > is a zip file with a xml descriptor in it, and also supporting HTTP request > for searching artifacts and download them. First part of the task is almost > done, since I've written a Archiva consumer which reads .ras descriptor and > indexes the file based on its descriptor. This was needed in order to enable > searches using some fields of the file descriptor. > > Another part of the work is to show some valuable information on the > Archiva interface. This is not required to be compliant with the spec, but I > would like to do that because it makes sense in an environment that supports > software reuse. I was looking at the showArtifact.jsp and I noticed that all > information comes through a ArtifactProjectModel (am I right?). Correct :) > I suppose the instance of this class is created based on POM information, > so I would like to know if there is an entry point or reader class that > allows me to write my own model reader - the information will be contained > in the RAS descriptor file. As for the reader, you might need to implement your own reader for the RAS descriptor. You can take a look at the different implementations of the ProjectModelReader which Archiva uses for reading the pom files in the archiva-repository-layer module for an example. You might also want to take a look at the ProjectModelToDatabaseConsumer (in archiva-database-consumers) which invokes the POM reader and adds the POM info to the database. > > Also, I've seen that all artifacts are uploaded based on group, id and > version information. I'm planning to retrieve group, id and version from the > RAS descriptor file. I've also seen that the "copy" to the repository from > UI is made by the UploadAction, so probably I would write another method for > treating that, and also enable an upload for RAS files based only on the > artifact file name on upload.jsp. Is there any other file upload point in > the system? Uploads via DAV is also supported (see archiva-webdav module) :) > > > This is part of my graduation final paper, and I'm currently working on a > 1.1.3 version on my machine. I don't have plans for integrating that yet, > but if you guys find it interesting, we can arrange a review and merge of > the changes with the recent 1.2 version after the work is done. > That would be great! Could you create a jira issue for this? We can use that to keep track of your patches and for reviewing them as well :) Thanks, Deng > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Kind regards, > > Felipe Roos > http://www.linkedin.com/in/feliperoos > > > Achar desculpas para os nossos > defeitos não nos torna melhores > > > > Veja quais são os assuntos do momento no Yahoo! +Buscados > http://br.maisbuscados.yahoo.com >
