Re: [xwiki-devs] [PROPOSAL] Introduce a work directory concept in the Container API

Hi Thomas, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote: AFAIK, we were supposed to deprecate xwiki.properties and use xwiki.cfg instead.

I notice that nobody is saying anything so I`d like to make it clear for myself :) Which one is it, xwiki.properties or xwiki.cfg? Thanks, Eduard > * for now keep same behavior as XWiki#getWorkDirectory: if > container.workDirectory is not defined then fallback on > getTemporaryDirectory() > > I would really like to start using the API and I don't really care how > it's implemented at EM level as long as I get a persisting folder when > I can write stuff. We can always add more fallbacks before > getTemporaryDirectory() later. > > WDYT ? > > Here is my +1 > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Thomas Mortagne > <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote: >> I think I finally understand why XE has a hack to add >> >> xwiki.work.dir=work >> >> at the end the generated xwiki.cfg file. It just hope to be run in a >> folder where it has the right to write and which is persisted between >> restarts. >> >> Because if you don't set this then it will use >> javax.servlet.context.tempdir which can be removed anytime... >> So basically even XWiki#getWorkDirectory has no clue where to find a >> proper work directory and it has to be explicitly specified. >> >> It was kind of OK for the Lucene index but seems pretty fuzzy for >> filesystem attachments or extension manager local repository to me. >> >> So I guess we will have to really start defining something about work > directory. >> >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Thomas Mortagne >> <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Mortagne >>> <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote: >>>> Hi devs, >>>> >>>> Right now there is no way for a component to know where is the >>>> standard work directory (the one used for Lucene or filesystem >>>> attachments for example) so I would like to add an API to access it. >>>> >>>> That said I propose to add a >>>> >>>> File getWorkDirectory() >>>> >>>> in org.xwiki.container.ApplicationContext which will use >>>> XWiki#getWorkDirectory() behind the scene probably for now. >>>> >>>> WDYT ? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thomas Mortagne