I know what you mean. You know if you're not needing anything fancy it shouldn't be that hard to write a really simple filesystem Store for Slide. You could probably ignore locking, metadata, security and transactions, and since those are the complicated bits it should go quite fast :). I can try to walk you through it if you're interested.
-James
alon salant wrote:
Thanks for confirming my understanding.
I'm hoping to have WebDAV running within my webapp because I already manage user authentication in Java and would like to apply the same container-managed security my WebDAV implementation. I'm actually surprised not to find a simple webdav servlet impementation independent of application server platform or framework (slide).
Alon
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:46:05 -0700, James Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alon,
I can't think of any way to get Slide to do this (maybe someone else can, though). The TxFile Store implementation uses xml files to store the structure of the repository, so I don't see any way to get this to use an existing structure in the filesystem.
You could write a really Store implementation that either ignores metadata or stores it in some sort of .meta file.
You might also look into using Apache HTTP Server's mod_dav module. It should do what you need and is very cross-platform.
-James
alon salant wrote:
I've been reading the slide docs, have set up the slide server and have WebDAV working for accessing files in slide.
I have been unable to definitively answer the following question. Hopefully someone on this list can answer it.
Can the slide WebDAV servlet be configured to serve an existing directory on the filesystem?
What I have found is that you can set up a slide filestore and store files in it, but you cannot create a slide filestore from an existing filesystem directory. Slide needs to store all kinds of metadata to do its job and the webdav servlet can only serve a slide filestore. Is this right?
If not, what would I need to do to get the slide webdav servlet serving say, /home/alon/public_html/, where I have a bunch of directories and files in that location already? I understand that a limited set of the WebDAV protocol will be supported.
I've also looked at the tomcat webdav servlet but it has several issues. First, it can only serve the webapp root in which it is loaded. It is also dependent on many tomcat core classes. I would like to be able to deploy on a range of application servers.
Thanks,
Alon
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