On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Asiri Rathnayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > I've looked into the issues with webdav on MacOSX and following is the > diagnosis: > > Finder(Mac) and other text editors on Mac relies a lot on temporary files / > directories created just for the duration of their operation. These files > usually start with a "." and can be easily distinguished from others. But > ignoring these files does not help at all because they are needed for the > proper operation of those applications. There for, we need to support them > somehow. > > Approach 1: Store all of those temporary files inside user's session object > - This doesn't work always because some clients (Nautilus, Redirector, > Davfs) creates a new session for each and every request they make, so the > information will not be persistent across different requests. Although some > clients (Konqurer, NetDrive, DAVExplorer) keeps a single session open > throughout their operation and they can support temporary files with this > approach. > > Approach 2: Store the temporary objects (resources) inside a database table > or file system - This can be complex to implement and will slow down the > operations. > > Approach 3: Use an in-memory storage in a per-user basis and store temporary > files there (Ex HashMap<User,Object>). This is quite easy to implement but > we need to manage the temporary storage carefully. > > I have implemented and tested Approach 1 and I will convert this to Approach > 3 asap. In the mean time, if you think there is a better way to do this, > please let me know.
+1 for 3 as I don't have much ideas. You should use the XWiki cache component in place of HashMap it support a generic eviction system with a maximum number of entry and a time to live for each one. You can also configure in details using the cache engine own configuration files. > > Thanks. > > - Asiri > > > PS: Some clients are aware of webdav protocol and they workaround temporary > files themselves, these clients work fine oob. > > Note: Temporary files that need to be supported: (These are not temporary files but system/cache files meaning that it's not deleted when the operation ends...) > > .* (Unix like OSs) > Desktop.ini (XP) > Thumbs.db (XP) > *~ (gEdit) > *.swp (Vim) > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
