Yes I believe it's obsolete now. I believe we might have been using a while
back to load resources from WEB-INF but don't think that is the case any
longer. So yeah, thinking it is probably something that can be killed.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks Andrea:
>
> I just did not want to hurt anyones feelings (or production stability) by
> removing useful functionality. So far the only deal breaker I can find is
> some security code that accesses WEB-INF/web.xml
>
> Well we will see what Justin says, but I feel simplification (although
> rare for GeoServer) may be in order.
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>
> On 20 February 2014 at 9:26:20 pm, Andrea Aime (
> [email protected] <//[email protected]>) wrote:
>
> Hi Jody,
> I believe the search location business was created fully by Justin.
> At least I have no clue why we are searching more locations than
> just the data directory
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> So here is an example:
>>
>> Search Location base dir: ./target/default8117989407937039007data
>> Search Location additional dir: ./target/default8117989407937039007data
>> Search Location additional dir:
>> ./target/default8117989407937039007data/data
>> Search Location additional dir:
>> /Users/jody/java/geoserver/jive/src/main/./target/default8117989407937039007data/WEB-INF
>> --
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>>
>> On 20 February 2014 at 12:58:59 pm, Jody Garnett
>> ([email protected]<//[email protected]>)
>> wrote:
>>
>> After a bit of encouragement this week I am almost ready to submit the
>> Managed File API proposal.
>>
>> Before I do I wanted a to ask for the historical background on
>> GeoServerResourceLoader "search locations".
>>
>> Reviewing the code we end up with the following:
>>
>> 1) base directory (determined using lookupGeoServerDataDirectory)
>> 2) base directory / data (is this for backwards compatibility?)
>> 4) application context / WEB-INF
>> 3) application context /
>> 5) absolute file references: the API supports the use of find( parent,
>> location ) - which performs a check for absolute file references. I cannot
>> find much evidence that this is used - code such as security or style pass
>> in the appropriate data directory folder.
>>
>> Search locations recorded as a Set<File> so no order is assumed when
>> searching (so using search locations to "override" data directory settings
>> would not work)
>>
>>
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>>
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