Hey Folks
So I just merged the first pass at JENA-1987 today, this adds the requested
/$/compact/<dataset> endpoint into the Fuseki Admin API when using the Fuseki
WebApp packaging.
However, this is not available for the JAR packaging currently, partly due to
security concerns and partly due to code structuring. Therefore I wanted to
kick off a discussion of how we could improve this in future iterations of this
functionality. I know that Andy mentioned he might have some thoughts on this
and having spent a few days in the code I also have some thoughts to share.
The main barrier for this right now is that the relevant servlets for some
admin operations (backup, compact etc) currently live in the jena-fuseki-webapp
module and so can’t be referenced from the jena-fuseki-server. So at a bare
minimum we’d need to split out the admin servlets into their own module
(jena-fuseki-admin perhaps?) that can then be re-used across the other modules.
I think this would be a good next step regardless of what else we want to do
in future.
A secondary concern is the design of the current admin API, currently the Admin
API [1] is server wide i.e. everything is under /$/ so if enabled it’s
available for all users (subject to any security the user configures) and
dataset level operations apply to all datasets. What might be a more useful
design would be the ability to enable relevant operations on a per dataset
basis. So you’d be able to have something like the following:
/ds/compact
/ds/backup
i.e. you allow dataset specific operations to be enabled on a per-dataset
basis. Likely this would be combined with additional Fuseki configuration e.g.
<#service1> rdf:type fuseki:Service ;
fuseki:name "ds" ; # http://host:port/ds
fuseki:endpoint [
# SPARQL query service
fuseki:operation fuseki:query ;
fuseki:name "sparql"
] ;
fuseki:endpoint [
# Compaction
fuseki:operation fuseki:compact ;
fuseki:name "compact"
] ;
fuseki:endpoint [
# Backup
fuseki:operation fuseki:backup ;
fuseki:name "backup"
]
fuseki:dataset <#dataset> ;
So users could opt into the endpoints they wanted.
Thoughts, suggestions, comments?
Rob
