Hi Sergiu, On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? > I can't think of any other use, may be ludovic has a different opinion ? :) > > > * 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. Mine is silly simple too :) <code> protected void doOptions(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK); response.setHeader("MS-Author-Via", "DAV"); response.setHeader("Content-Language", "en"); response.setHeader("DAV", "1,2"); response.setHeader("Allow", "OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, PROPFIND, LOCK, UNLOCK"); response.setHeader("Content-Length", "0"); response.flushBuffer(); } protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException { resp.sendRedirect("/xwiki/"); } </code> That's all!. > > > [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<http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/xwiki-plugins/trunk/xwiki-webdav%28may> > > 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. > ++1 for this :P I was waiting for a chance to write a plexus component myself. Anyway, i'm not sure if that is indeed necessary (complete newbie to plexus). - Asiri > > > [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 > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
