Natalia Shilenkova wrote:
I took a look at one of the TODO items, WebAdmin, that has been
sitting there for a while. Here are my observations:
1. It is probably a good idea make it work without avalon library.
Should be easy to do, too.
Yes, I'm wary of dragging extra dependencies, especially from (now closed)
avalon. I'd too prefer to remove it.
2. WebAdmin does not compile under jdk 1.3 (it requires 1.4), which I
don't see as a problem, considering there is already a discussion
about moving on to a newer java version.
I think we can be sure that xindice 1.2 can have minimum requirement of at least
1.4, so that should not be a problem for 1.2 release. But for webadmin to be
part of 1.1, it has to be Java 1.3 compatible.
3. Current version of webadmin allows users to change collection
configuration. For example, collection filer can be changed from
HashFiler to BTreeFiler. Ouch. This is really a bad idea as data files
are not rebuilt. This feature should be removed.
Hmmm. *Some* configuration options probably should be made editable. But
certainly free-form editing of config is too dangerous to have. I'm ok with
removing this feature in first release of webadmin.
4. Would be nice to separate presentation logic. Currently, all
html/xml is hardcoded.
Yes, but I don't think it should be a priority. First let's make it integrated
and working.
5. Xindice allows a situation where some collection contains a
document and a child collection with the same name. In this situation
it is impossible to tell if WebDAV request applies to the resource or
child collection, in both cases the path will be something like
/db/collection/child.
There is a similar situation in the URIMapper class (of
org.apache.xindice.core.request package). Even though this code looks to be
unused, untested and/or not integrated, the approach taken there is to
prioritize collection over documents. E.g., if there is same-name document and
collection, it will use collection.
I will start working on integrating the code, making all sort of
changes in progress. Feel free to share any feedback, thought and
ideas :)
Awesome! Please send patched in.
Vadim
