Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] URL format for temporary resources

On 19 Apr 2016, at 10:07, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote: Like Edy, I'm not a big fan of the forced document based entry point since it might not makes any sense for some use cases.

Now one job of the tmp resource is also to check access right so we need to pass it an entity reference on which to test the right when a right check is required. The alternative being to end up with the reference both in the path (to avoir collisions) and as some URL parameter which is not nice I guess what you propose it ok as long as empty reference is supported (i.e. don't test the right and just go return the file associated to the path) as in http://mydomain/xwiki/tmp/mymodule//I/don't/care/about/right.png Making the tmp resource generic enough to be just an entry point for calling some module which then do whatever it wants would just be a duplicate of resource handler framework but maybe we just don't really need this anymore central temp resource entry point since now that we have a generic resource handler framework ? On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; wrote: > @Thomas: are you ok with the proposed format: > > http://<server>/<context>/tmp/<module id>/<serialized owner document reference>/<module-dependent resource path> > > ? > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> On 14 Apr 2016, at 17:55, Thomas Mortagne &lt;thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea >> &lt;mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; wrote: >>> >>>> Hi devs, >>>> >>>> I’m implementing http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10375 ("Refactor the >>>> temporary resource concept inside the Resource module”) and I need to >>>> define a URL format for the new “tmp” resource type. >>>> >>>> I’m proposing the following: >>>> >>>> >>> >>>> http://<server>/<context>/tmp/<module id>/<serialized owner document >>>> reference>/<module-dependent resource path> >>>> >>> >>> Serialized document reference uses backslash to escape special characters >>> which breaks the URL in Tomcat for security reasons. >> >> Badly configured Tomcat does not like slash but are you sure about backslash ? >> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> This is based on the existing TemporaryResourceReference at: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/96caad053c14fc5546e9bc141bc284… >>>> >>>> For example: >>>> >>>> http:// >>>> <server>/<context>/tmp/officeviewer/A.B.WebHome/Q29tcGFueSBQcmVzZW50YXRpb24ucHB0/Company+Presentation-slide0.jpg >>>> >>>> Note that in this example from the officeviewer macro the module-dependent >>>> resource path consists in: >>>> >>> >>> >>>> - base64(name of office attachment + hashcode(parameters)) >>>> >>> >>> See http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11528 for the rationale behind it. I >>> was trying to avoid backslash (from the serialized attachment reference) in >>> the URL. >>> >>> >>>> - generated image name from PPT >>>> >>>> In this case, the implementation would generate the following file: >>>> >>>> >>>> [TMPDIR]/officeviewer/A/B/WebHome/Q29tcGFueSBQcmVzZW50YXRpb24ucHB0/Company+Presentation-slide0.jpg >>>> >>>> WDYT? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -Vincent