[xwiki-devs] WebDAV integration: status and next steps

Hi devs, Asiri, I finally found the time to apply Asiri's patch to integrate the WebDAV module in the default XE, and here are some comments/ideas: - I like this new feature, combined with KDE. I was able to start Konqueror, point it to localhost, and start editing wiki files in my favorite editor, Kate. - It seems to be much faster than the web view, which suggests that indeed most of the time is spent on rendering. - I wasn't able to create new wiki documents. Is there something special I should do? Is it not supported yet? Is Konqueror alone guilty? - Also, the error I get doesn't seem right (File already exists), since the file I want to create definitely doesn't exist. - Since it uses Basic authentication, we should advertise that authentication is not secure, thus it should only be used inside trusted intranets, over VLANs or over SSL. Code related: - Looking a bit over the code, I noticed that we're using only a bit from the jackrabit-jcr-server library, and I was wondering if it would be possible to refactor all the code that needs it to use something else, so that we have one dependency in minus. - Also, I noticed that you're using slf4j as the logging framework, which doesn't fit with the rest of the XWiki code, since we're using commons-logging. Still, this is also the framework used by jackrabbit, so we can't get rid of it completely. Asiri, could you update the code to use commons-logging? - Although there are integration tests, some unit tests would be great. I know it's hard for the moment to do proper unit testing, since most of the code works closely with the old core, which doesn't contribute to a good testing scenario. Congratulations for the good work, Asiri! -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/