Hi, I'm trying to use FileVault to automatically sync a local directory from filesystem into a Hippo repository (which is based on JackRabbit). The main reason for using FileVault is the automatic handling of meta-data in the .content.xml files.
So far I've successfully used the Importer class to import an Archive based on files or a zip file. I've also implemented a simple file watcher that triggers a reimport whenever something changes. This nicely imports changes and newly added files and directories. So far so good. The problem is that deleting files or directories does not delete their counterparts in JCR. I'd expect that using ImportMode.REPLACE would completely replace the JCR node structure and automatically delete everything that is no longer present in the imported archive, but that's not the case. Reading through code it seems the vlt tool uses the meta-data in the .vlt directory to track deleted files, which are then processed during a commit. Is there a way to add such meta-data to an Archive or educate the Importer somehow? I've also read through the code of the vault-sync tool, which basically implements my use case. I cannot use it as-is though, since Hippo does not use OSGI. IIUC vault-sync does not use Archives or Packages at all, but uses its own TreeSync class that does lots of plain JCR calls. Does that mean that vault-sync does not process meta-data files at all? best, Mathijs
