On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 11:40, Guido Casper wrote:
-link management
What do u mean? I thin forrests LinkRewriter is doing a fine job. Please explain your idea in more detail.
I'm thinking of managing linking information within metadata/properties in a bidirectional way so that broken links may be prevented/detected early on in the authoring process.
Mmmh. Ok, I understand your requirement. I thought, if we use "hrefs" like "site:..." and the LinkRewriter we do not need to care about broken links etc, since we refer to a symbolic href target in docs only. We only need to maintain the link db for the LinkRewriter which itself (the db) is a doc in the repository.
Does that make sense?
Yes I think LinkRewriter is nice for many use cases. But it doesn't answer what happens if you delete a document being linked by another document. And I'm unsure wether maintaining a central link db is a good way to do this kind of link management. I see LinkRewriter somehow orthogonal to what I have in mind.
But currently it's not much more than an idea (there is no code) and I'm interested to hear other opinions.
-a RepositorySource(2)
I thought of that, too. Please explain your idea in more detail :)
So u want users to act on a RepositrySource instance instead of the single interfaces like TraversableSource and VersionableSource for example?
No, I mean a Source implementation implementing all the needed subinterfaces while operating only on the Repository interface (currently lacking getChildren() etc. for the traversable stuff). So that not every repository needs to implement its own Source.
Ah, ok.
For a particular repository, implementing the Repository interface may in summary be the same amount of work (although you may be less distracted by the special semantics of Sources), but you get more functionality (and better testability) and the Source implementation comes for free.
Ok.
A very important question for me:
When can there be some alpha code seeds available in cvs?
I saw there is sth. changing already in the repository block. I'm especially interested in versioning of the rep. sources.
I just committed an impl for WebDAV. It needs completion and more testing (I'll come up with samples later).
However I'm currently not working on a RepositorySource.
Guido
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