Hi Stephan
See http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-207 for a patch, now 9 days
old.
Hopefully that fix works for jackrabbit's WebDAV.
I'm considering adding the vfs webdav sandbox stuff to webdavclient4j's
source tree, and maintaining it there.
cheers,
Jason
Stephan Schuster-3 wrote:
>
> hi together,
>
> first of all thanks for this great piece of software!
>
>
> my context:
> i want to use vfs to search and - if existing - access files on my
> server via webdav. as stated on the homepage i use:
> commons-httpclient-2.0.2.jar
> commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
> commons-vfs-sandbox-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> jakarta-slide-webdavlib-20050629.161100.jar
> jdom-1.0.jar
>
> my problem:
> - my little test program (see below) WORKS fine IF THE FILE i want to
> resolve EXISTS on the server (APACHE or JACKRABBIT deployed in tomcat).
> - IF THE FILE DOES NOT EXIST
> - it IS STILL WORKING on APACHE as my weddav server.
> - it DOES NOT WORK on JACKRABBIT as my server. see exception below.
>
> the reason:
> in WebdavFileObject.setDavResource(WebdavResource resource) the server
> is asked via the OptionsMethod which methods it understands for the
> encoded path of a potentially non existing file. i setup a proxy in
> between. see the complete results at the end of my mail.
>
> apache returns: OPTIONS,MKCOL,PUT,LOCK
> jackrabbit returns: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, TRACE, PROPFIND,
> PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, PUT, DELETE, MOVE, LOCK, UNLOCK, VERSION-CONTROL
>
> WebdavFileObject traverses each returned method and if it encounters
> "COPY" it assumes that the file exists. however, this is not true for
> jackrabbit.
>
>
> now, which code is wrong? the one of jackrabbit (i looked into it but
> couldn't find the right place) or the one of vfs. is there a workaround
> or something else i can do?
>
>
> thanks,
> stephan
>
>
> TEST PROGRAM:
>
> DefaultFileSystemManager mgr = new DefaultFileSystemManager();
> mgr.addProvider("file", new DefaultLocalFileProvider());
> mgr.addProvider("webdav", new WebdavFileProvider());
> mgr.init();
>
> FileObject file = mgr.resolveFile(PATH-TO-NON-EXISTING-FILE-ON-SERVER);
>
> if (file.exists()) { // THAT'S WHERE THE EXCEPTION OCCURS!!!
> ...
> }
> ...
>
>
> EXCEPTION:
>
> org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException: Could not determine the type
> of file
> "webdav://username:[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:8888/jackrabbit/repository/default/test/non-existing-file.txt".
> at
> org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.attach(AbstractFileObject.java:1305)
> at
> org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.getType(AbstractFileObject.java:412)
> at
> org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.exists(AbstractFileObject.java:402)
> at test.Main2.main(Main2.java:42)
> Caused by: org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException
> at
> org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.setDavResource(WebdavFileObject.java:190)
> at
> org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.doAttach(WebdavFileObject.java:92)
> at
> org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.attach(AbstractFileObject.java:1291)
> ... 3 more
> Caused by: org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException
> at
> org.apache.webdav.lib.WebdavResource.propfindMethod(WebdavResource.java:3517)
> at
> org.apache.webdav.lib.WebdavResource.propfindMethod(WebdavResource.java:3472)
> at
> org.apache.webdav.lib.WebdavResource.setNamedProp(WebdavResource.java:976)
> at
> org.apache.webdav.lib.WebdavResource.setDefaultProperties(WebdavResource.java:963)
> at
> org.apache.webdav.lib.WebdavResource.setProperties(WebdavResource.java:1923)
> at
> org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.setDavResource(WebdavFileObject.java:186)
> ... 5 more
>
>
> PROXY OUTPUT JACKRABBIT:
>
>
> REQUEST:
>
> OPTIONS /jackrabbit/repository/default/test/file3.txt HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
> User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/2.0.2
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8000
>
> PROPFIND /jackrabbit/repository/default/test/file3.txt HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
> Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
> User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/2.0.2
> Host: localhost:8000
> Content-Length: 288
> Depth: 1
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><D:propfind
> xmlns:D="DAV:"><D:prop><D:creationdate/><D:displayname/><D:getcontentlanguage/><D:getcontentlength/><D:getcontenttype/><D:getetag/><D:getlastmodified/><D:lockdiscovery/><D:resourcetype/><D:source/><D:supportedlock/></D:prop></D:propfind>
>
>
> RESPONSE:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
> DAV: 1,2,version-control,version-history,label
> Allow: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, TRACE, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL,
> COPY, PUT, DELETE, MOVE, LOCK, UNLOCK, VERSION-CONTROL
> MS-Author-Via: DAV
> Content-Length: 0
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:05:39 GMT
>
> HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
> Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
> Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
> Content-Length: 952
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:05:39 GMT
>
> <html><head><title>Apache Tomcat/5.5.17 - Error
> report</title><style><!--H1
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;}
>
> H2
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;}
>
> H3
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;}
>
> BODY
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;}
> B
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;}
> P
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}A
>
> {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}HR {color : #525D76;}--></style>
> </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 404 - </h1><HR size="1"
> noshade="noshade"><p>type Status report</p><p>message
> <u></u></p><p>description <u>The requested resource () is not
> available.</u></p><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><h3>Apache
> Tomcat/5.5.17</h3></body></html>
>
>
> PROXY OUTPUT APACHE:
>
>
> REQUEST:
>
> OPTIONS /webdav/test/file3.txt HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic d2lsa2VuOndpbGtlbg==
> User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/2.0.2
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8888
>
>
> RESPONSE:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:49:13 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
> mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.5
> DAV: 1,2
> MS-Author-Via: DAV
> Allow: OPTIONS,MKCOL,PUT,LOCK
> Content-Length: 0
> Content-Type: text/plain
> X-Pad: avoid browser bug
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