> > Last Point "Configure Xindice XML-RPC Driver (Client side)" What do i > > have to do where?!
> Please read Wiki entry: > This can be done with system properties ... or programmatically. > Details are here: > http://xml.apache.org/xindice/api/org/apache/xindice/client/xmldb/xmlrpc/DatabaseImpl.html > Vadim Hi Vadim, I too have had trouble setting programmatic authentication for xindice. Xindice 1.1b4 was up and running with no problems. I had set up Cocoon's cforms to write data to the xindice database using flowscript/xupdate. It was accessing the database over xmldb:xindice://localhost:8080/db. The problem came when I enabled Tomcat's BASIC authentication on the xindice directory, as recommended in the wiki entry (http://wiki.apache.org/xindice/BasicAuthentication) You recommend the code: driver.setProperty(DatabaseImpl.PROP_XMLRPC_USER, "xindice"); driver.setProperty(DatabaseImpl.PROP_XMLRPC_PASSWORD, "manager"); However, driver is a protected field of DatabaseImpl (http://xml.apache.org/xindice/api/org/apache/xindice/client/xmldb/DatabaseImpl.html) and PROP_XMLRPC_[USER|PASSWORD] are private fields of DatabaseImpl (http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-xindice/java/src/org/apache/xindice/client/xmldb/xmlrpc/DatabaseImpl.java?view=markup). Trying to work around this, I set up some test code that included: try { String driver = "org.apache.xindice.client.xmldb.DatabaseImpl"; Class c = Class.forName(driver); Database database = (Database)c.newInstance(); DatabaseManager.setProperty( "xmlrpc-password", "..."); DatabaseManager.setProperty( "xmlrpc-user", "xindice"); DatabaseManager.registerDatabase(database); String uri = "xmldb:xindice://localhost:8080/db"; col = DatabaseManager.getCollection(uri, "xindice", "..."); // username, password assert col != null; } ... I believed that DatabaseManager would pass on the properties to DatabaseImpl (the xml-rpc version), which would then pass them on to the XmlRpcClient, but the output I get is trying to register database XML:DB Exception occured (error code: 0) org.xmldb.api.base.XMLDBException: Cannot communicate with the server: http://localhost:8080/xindice Looking through the code (http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-xindice/java/src/org/apache/xindice/client/xmldb/xmlrpc/DatabaseImpl.java?view=markup), I found the comment /* TODO: introduce authentication some day */ Yet the code seems to be present XmlRpcClient client = new XmlRpcClient(xmlRpcURL); if (basicUser != null) { client.setBasicAuthentication(basicUser, basicPassword); } return client; Could you please give me some guidance on this? If you need any more specifics, let me know. Thanks, Matt
