see at the bottom.

El vie, 16-06-2006 a las 10:58 +0200, Oliver Schalch escribió:
> Josias Thöny wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 10:31 +0200, Oliver Schalch wrote:
> >> Hi List,
> >>
> >> At the moment there is *no* message which gives the user a hint why a 
> >> upload didnt happen. If you try uploading an image and enable.upload is 
> >> false it just returns to the screen you was.
> >>
> >> 2 Suggestion:
> >>
> >> --- before a user will try to upload ---
> >> We add a check to all place where its possible to upload files which 
> >> checks the l.b.p (b.p) and add an according message there if 
> >> enable.upload=false
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >> --- after a user tried to upload ---
> >> We just check if the upload didnt happen and inform the user about this 
> >> and why it could happen.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if there is a nice way we could check the enable.upload 
> >> paramater in the local.build.properties direct from the usecase. If that 
> >> doesent work in a nice way, we should just check if the file was 
> >> uploaded, if not add a information about the enable.upload.
> > 
> > Unfortunately the usecase cannot check if the upload has worked or not. 
> > The reason is that request-parameters in the body of the request are
> > ignored by Cocoon for multipart/form-data requests (which are used for
> > uploading files) if uploads are disabled. (Technical background see
> > below [*])
> > As a consequence, the continuation-id is lost and the usecase doesn't
> > continue.
> > 
> > First I thought we could put the continuation-id for the upload usecases
> > into the URL (index.html?lenya.continuation=1234).
> > But the submit parameter is lost also, so it doesn't help. The whole
> > usecase-processing doesn't work :(
> 
> Mhh :(
> 
> > 
> > I guess we have to check l.b.p and display a warning on the screen where
> > the user selects the file to upload.
> 
> Yes, I like that idea anyway, in 99% it will fail because of the 
> enable.upload=false in lbp. I will have a look at it, how I could get 
> stuff out the local.b.p inside a usecase.
> 
> > Or we enable file-upload by default.
> 
> Uploading files could be a part of a CMS, so why not. But that its more 
> a workaround to get rid of the discussion above ;). And probably some 
> security reason to not set uploads=true by default.
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
> > 
> > - Josias
> > 
> > [*]
> > The servlet API provides the method getParameter(String name) to access
> > request parameters, but this method doesn't work for in-body request
> > parameters of multipart/form-data requests.
> > Cocoon (and other web-application frameworks) now wrap the
> > HttpServletRequest into another class (MultipartHttpServletRequest)
> > which allows to access all request parameters.
> > Now if uploads are disabled, this wrapping doesn't happen, therefore the
> > request-parameters in the body are not accessible with the
> > getParameter() method.
> > 

It there no way to test in the usecase doCheckPreconditions() whether
the upload is enabled? 

Would it not work if we check whether the wrapping is possible or not?

salu2
-- 
thorsten

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