OpenCMIS client for Android devices
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Key: CMIS-507
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CMIS-507
Project: Chemistry
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: opencmis-client, opencmis-client-bindings,
opencmis-commons
Affects Versions: OpenCMIS 0.6.0
Environment: All Android devices
Reporter: Jean Marie PASCAL
Hello Chemistry,
As new employee of Alfresco Mobile team, I just start a project to port
OpenCMIS into Android devices.
Indeed, OpenCMIS as is doesn't work on android device due to the fact that
Android SDK is different than JDK. They share some common package but clearly
not all and clearly not all for using OpenCMIS in android.
So after few days of work, I created a "partial/draft" client version of
OpenCMIS called chemistry-opencmis-android.
What's chemistry-opencmis-android ?
It's a maven project that create an android opencmis client into a single jar
file : chemistry-opencmis-android.jar
This library is a merge of opencmis-client-* and opencmis-commons-*
dependencies into one jar. Some of them have been modified (More informations
below).
The project has 2 external dependencies : android.jar (for specific android
dependencies) and simple-json (browser binding)
I tested this project into Ice Cream Sandwich and Honeycomb android device.
Major part of opencmis services (repository, navigation, object...) works
pretty well but there are still some "functional holes" (extension parameters,
ACL, versionning...). Yes it's draft version :)
What I did...
In general,
- Merged opencmis-client-* and opencmis-commons-* package into one.
- removed all webservices binding references
- removed jaxb dependency (replaced it by opencmis data object)
- modified atompubparser to use xmlpullparser provided by android.
- commented or deleted all external dependencies that was not provided by
android like commons-logging, osgi...
In details,
- chemistry-opencmis-commons-api :
--- add a file : AtomPropertyType.java
- chemistry-opencmis-commons-impl :
--- remove converter, JaxbHelper files and tube packges
--- add AtomPubConverter
- chemistry-opencmis-client-api : nothing
- chemistry-opencmis-client-impl
--- remove osgi package
- chemistry-opencmis-client-bindings
--- deleted webservices + local package
--- removed commons-logging and jaxb dependencies
--- rewrite atompubparser and atomentrywriter to use xmlpullparser
--- rewrite all services to use only opencmis object
--- create an atompubconverter : to create opencmis object after a parsing
phase
So my final questions :
What do you think about this approach ?
and if it's correct could I share, contribute and improve this version into
chemistry and have some extra dev hands to help me in this task ?
And the last How to build my project ?
You need
- maven 3.x +
- android.jar as artifact in your maven repository. I used
https://github.com/mosabua/maven-android-sdk-deployer to deploy android sdk
into my local repository
then simply run a mvn install. You will have a single jar that you can
incorporate to any android application as any dependency.
Thanks for all.
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