On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:

> Ok new proposal:
> 
> * introduce ApplicationContext#getWorkDirectory
> * introduce container.workDirectory in xwiki.properties
> * for now keep same behavior as XWiki#getWorkDirectory: if
> container.workDirectory is not defined then fallback on
> getTemporaryDirectory()
> 
> I would really like to start using the API and I don't really care how
> it's implemented at EM level as long as I get a persisting folder when
> I can write stuff. We can always add more fallbacks before
> getTemporaryDirectory() later.
> 
> WDYT ?
> 
> Here is my +1

+1

Thanks
-Vincent

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Thomas Mortagne
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think I finally understand why XE has a hack to add
>> 
>> xwiki.work.dir=work
>> 
>> at the end the generated xwiki.cfg file. It just hope to be run in a
>> folder where it has the right to write and which is persisted between
>> restarts.
>> 
>> Because if you don't set this then it will use
>> javax.servlet.context.tempdir which can be removed anytime...
>> So basically even XWiki#getWorkDirectory has no clue where to find a
>> proper work directory and it has to be explicitly specified.
>> 
>> It was kind of OK for the Lucene index but seems pretty fuzzy for
>> filesystem attachments or extension manager local repository to me.
>> 
>> So I guess we will have to really start defining something about work 
>> directory.
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Thomas Mortagne
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Mortagne
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi devs,
>>>> 
>>>> Right now there is no way for a component to know where is the
>>>> standard work directory (the one used for Lucene or filesystem
>>>> attachments for example) so I would like to add an API to access it.
>>>> 
>>>> That said I propose to add a
>>>> 
>>>> File getWorkDirectory()
>>>> 
>>>> in org.xwiki.container.ApplicationContext which will use
>>>> XWiki#getWorkDirectory() behind the scene probably for now.
>>>> 
>>>> WDYT ?
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Thomas Mortagne
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Actually ServletApplicationContext does not have access to old XWiki
>>> API right now so I'm not sure what's the best for implementing this
>>> method yet.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Thomas Mortagne

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