Introduce type handlers to allow different content structures
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Key: CMIS-440
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CMIS-440
Project: Chemistry
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: opencmis-server-jcr
Affects Versions: OpenCMIS 0.6.0
Reporter: Tobias Mattsson
We have a content structure that differs from the structure that is assumed in
opencmis jcr. I.e. our documents are not of type nt:file, our folders are a
sub-type of nt:folder but we have meta-data around in nodes of type nt:folder
which we don't want to show and we want to hide the system folders directly
under the root.
To get things working with our structure we've had to make customizations in
quite a few places. To make it manageable we've introduced a handler that is
responsible for tasks related to a certain type. This is similar to what the
TODO in JcrNodeFactory describes.
A type handler is responsible for:
* providing a TypeDefinition (see CMIS-439)
* testing if it handles a specific javax.jcr.Node
* creating a JcrNode instance for the type (which is now done by JcrNodeFactory)
* providing IdentifierMap for queries (now done by JcrNodeFactory)
* creating a new object of the type, this is now done in JcrFolder addNode and
addFolder so if you have many documents you have to add the code for creating
all of them there, spreading the handling of your new type around
The type handlers are managed by TypeHandlerManager which keep the list of
handlers and have utility methods that loop through the handlers to calls the
right handler.
A really nifty thing here is that the TypeHandlerManager can expose a Predicate
that loops type handlers to see if a Node is handled or not, this means that
things in the jcr repository for which there is no CMIS type are hidden. This
predicate needs to take effect in alot of places, both in JcrFolder and in
JcrRepository, I've solved this by giving JcrFolder a wrapped Node that applies
the predicate to all NodeIterators it returns.
What do you think?
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