Asiri Rathnayake wrote: > Hello devs, > > Following couple of weeks i've been working on integrating xwiki-webdav in > the xwiki ui and i'm confident now it's time to move out this effort from > sandbox to our main xwiki source tree. Before discussing about where to put > the xwiki-webdav and associated modules in the main source tree, following > is a brief status update on what's going with xwiki-webdav. > > * xwiki-webdav can be deployed on it's own (with a preconfigured hsqldb) or > more likely be integrated into an existing XE installation. Once deployed, > various webdav clients (provided by your operating system or thirdparty > applications) will be able to brows through an XE repository pretty easily. > > - It's worth to mention at this point that there are so many webdav > clients out there and they vary in bahaviour a lot. This is the MOST-PAINFUL > problem we're currently facing. And to get xwiki-webdav into shape, we need > to test it a LOT! :) > > * xwiki-webdav is configured as a maven project ( > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/sandbox/xwiki-webdav/) and it can be > deployed (for testing) pretty easily through maven-jetty-plugin. Also we > have added quite a few integration tests to make sure of the basic dav > functionality. > > * For interoperability with XP's built-in webdav client we had to put up a > separate root servlet, this project is currently located at > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/sandbox/xwiki-rootwebapp/. > xwiki-rootwebapp handles redirection and proper reply for the PROPFIND > request at root level of webserver. > > * xwiki-webdav is integrated into xwiki ui with two approaches, one by > provding an 'Edit' link in the attachments view of a page (for editing > attachments via webdav) and the other is thorugh foxwiki's context menu. > > * To implement the 'Edit' link in the attachments view, we created the > xwiki-webdav-plugin ( > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/sandbox/xwiki-webdav-plugin/) which is > responsible for providing webdav urls given document attachments. The actual > editing of attachments is carried either via foxwiki (if you are running > firefox) or via IE's built-in capabilities of openning webdav urls with > native editors.
Does this plugin do anything else? > * As mentioned above we had to revamp foxwiki to make it easy for us to > integrate xwiki-webdav in the xwiki-ui. But we have the added bonus of all > previous foxwiki features too :). Presently foxwiki is configured as a maven > project (http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/sandbox/xwiki-clients/FoXWiki/) > and it can be built and tested pretty easily (refer to README). > > * A fully configured test server is located at > http://91.121.237.216/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ (along with instructions) so that > you may test out xwiki-webdav:xwiki-ui integration yourself :) > > * So altogether we have 4 projects > [xwiki-rootwebapp],[xwiki-webdav],[xwiki-webdav-plugin],[foxwiki] and > follwing is our task break down for days to come : > > 1. Cleanup the source code and make it upto xwiki standards (2 more days > work remaining, need to add javadoc comments). > > 2. Create a maven build (Done). > > 3. Discuss proper places to land these projects (on trunk). > > 4. Send a vote to move these projects into trunk. > > 5. Create JIRA projects as necessary. (i'm not sure if we would have > four separate projects or not) > > 6. Release a first version. > > * Now to start with, we need to discuss where to place these projects under > the main source tree, following are some initial suggessions but i'm not > certain about these :) > > [xwiki-rootwebapp] : No Idea. How about http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/xwiki-tools/trunk/xwiki-rootwebapp I was about to add a similar root webapp, but a simple one that would just redirect calls to /xwiki/, in order to solve http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-289 . I could merge my (silly simple) code with yours sometime later. > [xwiki-webdav] : > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-webdav Maybe. > [xwiki-webdav-plugin] : > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/xwiki-plugins/trunk/xwiki-webdav(may > be we should change the name ?) The proper place, but since all other plugin modules are named without the leading xwiki-, maybe it should just be named webdav. Another idea would be to make this not a plugin, but a component, like in http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/CreatingComponents in which case it could as well be included in the xwiki-webdav module. > [foxwiki] : http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/foxwiki It's not exactly a product, since it is quite small. Could it go in xwiki-tools? Not sure, let's see what others have to say. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
