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Karl Wright commented on CONNECTORS-727:
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Hi Maciej,
I will probably not be able to check this in detail until early next week.
However - I have had a quick glance at the API specification, and there's one
thing I believe we will have to do. Specifically, we need to separate content
(which should be streamed) from the document metadata (which is OK to return in
a single XML document). The reason for this is obvious: we need the metadata
before we can properly deal with the content, AND unless we want to buffer the
entire document in memory, we really want the content to be streamed.
It is fine to embed the content in an XML document, but it should be a separate
document.
> generic connector
> -----------------
>
> Key: CONNECTORS-727
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-727
> Project: ManifoldCF
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Maciej Lizewski
> Assignee: Karl Wright
>
> OK, this is tricky, but really nice idea. I was thinking about indexing some
> sources which do not have API, or API does not provide information needed by
> Manifold, or there is dedicated system and IT team that can easily add some
> API.
> Now you have to write dedicated connector and probably some API extension,
> plugin, etc that would talk with each other to provide seeds, versions and
> documents. Which requires knowledge on how to write Manifold connectors AND
> knowledge about system - there is no so many programmers that know both
> systems :)
> So lets make things easier - provide "generic" Manifold connector that works
> with "generic" API (ie XML over HTTP which is *really* easy to implement in
> any language). This API and protocol are strictly defined and specified. Then
> to integrate with the custom document repository one has to only implement
> API entry point which follow those specifications.
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