Thanks for pointing me in the right direction James. Turns out the problem was that the isCollection() method was failing for real files and the generic GET method was being called instead of the WedDAV Server specific one.
I finally figured out the reason why. I was improperly populating the latestRevisionNumbers Hashtable when I was creating the NodeRevisionDescriptors object in my store's retrieveRevisionDescriptors(Uri uri) method for files. By the way, the key value format for that Hashtable is (String branchName, NodeRevisionNumber nodeRevisionNumber) Aside: I know that Slide is free software and we're all in this together, but this highlights one of the most frustrating aspects of the lack of documentation for new developers. The JavaDoc for the NodeRevisionDescriptors object tells you that the constructor method takes three Hashtables as arguments but does not inform you what the structure of the key/value objects should be. A Hashtable is pretty generic. It wasn't until I found a separate method in the source that I saw the value object of that Hashtable was being cast as a NodeRevisionNumber. It wouldn't hurt to include something in the Javadoc comments for those constructors indicating the format of generic things like Hashtables, Enumerations, etc. Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: James Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with retrieveRevision Content What you're describing should be working. It looks like the WebDAV servlet thinks that your file is a collection. I don't know how it determines this, but a GET request to a collection will result in the kind of response that you're getting. The only thing I can suggest is to add some debugging output to try to find out why the servlet thinks the file is a directory. -James >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/30/2004 3:50:31 PM >>> I am continuing to try and create my own content store to eventually hook into an existing Content Management Application that has an exposed API. I have gotten as far as given a URI like "/slide/files/1234" I return that it's a collection and it contains a Word document named "1234Document.doc". Opening a Windows XP network place to http://host/slide/files/1234 <http://host/slide/files/1234> results in a Word icon with the correct name. My goal is that when I click on the Word icon on the network place to open the document in Word, the contents of the document will simply be "File ID = 1234". (I call setContent method on NodeRevisionContent object to manipulate the data). However, when I click to open the Word document now, its contents are the HTML that would result if you were to browse http://host/slide/files/1234 <http://host/slide/files/1234> using a non WebDAV client like IE. It doesn't appear that my retrieveRevisionContent() method is ever being called. 1. What determines with retrieveRevisionContent() should be called? 2. Collections are identified as resourceType = <collection/>. How should actual files be identified? Does that matter? Here are some code details When retrieveObject(Uri uri) is called for a uri like "/files/1234" ================== UriPath uriPath = new UriPath(uri.toString()); Vector children = new Vector(); String childFileName = uriPath.lastSegment() + Document.doc" //Make containing file like "1234Document.doc" children.add(0,childFileName); Vector links = new Vector(); //Empty links vector return new SubjectNode(uri.toString(), children, links); When retrieveObject(Uri) is called for a uri like "/files/1234/1234Document.doc" ================== return new SubjectNode(uri.toString()); When retrieveRevisionDescriptor(Uri uri, NodeRevisionNumber revisionNumber) is called ================== If(revisionNumber == null){revisionNumber = new NodeRevisionNumber("1.0");} String branchName = "main"; Vector labels = new Vector(); //Empty labels vector Hashtable properties = new Hashtable(); NodeRevisionDescriptor nrd = new NodeRevisionDescriptor(revisionNumber, branchName, labels, properties); ------------then------------- When the uri is like "/files/1234" ------------------------------- nrd.setResourceType("<collection/>"); nrd.setSource(""); nrd.setContentLength("0"); -----------but--------------- When the uri is like "/files/1234/1234Document.doc" ------------------------------ nrd.setResourceType(""); nrd.setSource(""); nrd.setContentLanguage("en"); nrd.setContentLength("24064"); nrd.setContentType("application/msword"); nrd.setName(uriPath.lastSegment()); //Sets the name to "1234Document.doc" The final bit when retrieveRevisionContent(Uri uri, NodeRevisionDescriptor revisionDescriptor) is called for a uri like "/files/1234/1234Document.doc" ==================== String s = new String("File ID = " + uriPath.lastSegment()); // "File ID = 1234" NodeRevisionContent result = new NodeRevisionContent(); result.setContent(s.toCharArray()); return result; When I double click on the Word Icon labeled "1234Document.doc" in the Network Place", instead of a Word opening the document with the content I placed in the result using setContents() method when the GET request comes through, the content of the Word Document is HTML as if I was browsing using IE. <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" > </meta> <title>Directory listing for /files/1234/1234Document.doc</title> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <table width="90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr><td colspan="3"><font size="+2"> <strong>Directory listing for /files/1234/1234Document.doc</strong> </font></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="5" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <a href="/slide/files/1234">Up To /files/1234</a> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan="5" bgcolor="#ffffff"> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cccccc"> <td align="left" colspan="3"><font size="+1"><strong>Filename</strong></font></td> <td align="center"><font size="+1"><strong>Size</strong></font></td> <td align="right"><font size="+1"><strong>Last Modified</strong></font></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3" bgcolor="#cccccc"><font size="-1">Jakarta Slide 2.0</font></td> <td colspan="2" align="right" bgcolor="#cccccc"><font size="-1"> 4c Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:30:29 EDT</font></td></tr> </table> </body> </html> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
