Hello Sebastian, If I understand you right you are not interested in a full blown WebDAV API for your file system view (e.g. clients performing propPatches etc), but you want to use WebDAV as an Internet Filesystem. If yes, you will need to write a Slide store, that reads all properties and structure information, directly from the hard disc (structure maps to the directory infos, properties maps to the file attributes). If you are not using caching, you may modify the file system directly and all changes will be reflected immediately in your webdav view. You even can modify with the webdav view and changes are reflected on the file system. But, the full webdav protocol will not be supported, e.g. locking, more dead properties, etc.
Best regards Juergen -----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Frankfurt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 09.35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: taking over existing filestructure with slide? Hello, ...and now the orginal question..... I have an existing filestructure of several Gigs and now I want to provide the users a more comfortable access from the outsite world via webdav/slide. As I understand the slide structure, it will only recognize those files in the contentstore, that has been put into it via a webdav-client. Scenario: + internal users are working with PC/Mac(respectively Samba/Appletalk) + external users should now work with webdav Problem: - internal users change files via Samba/Appletalk and external by slide Question: How do I tell slide, that there has been changes made to a file, whithout using a webdav client? Slide is configured to save it's meta-data within a MySQL database and stores the files on the filesystem. I thought, it would be possible to scan the filesystem in order to create the meta-data slide needs -> but how is the 'getetag' property calculated? I tested, inserting all meta-data, slide is able to tell the webdav client that there is a file, but if I try to download it, slide does not find the specified file although it is in the right position. Is there a proper way of taking over an existing filesystem-structure? thanx, Sebastian PS: please drop me a cc, 'cause I'm not on the list. PPS: I'm using Tomcat-4.0 (standalone) with Slide 1.0.16 (webarchive) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
