[xwiki-devs] Need help with WebDAV Support.

[Ludovic Dubost]

At this point it does work for the GWT RPC. Now it's sure as there are 
more components all XWiki function rely on we will need to have it 
really working
The case for Asiri is not for XMLRPC but for WebDAV which should not 
make use of velocity.

Ludovic

Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:23 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:
>
>   
>> This is new code in XWiki 1.3+
>> Just add one line to test for the NULL and not put it in the map
>>     
>
> Well this is a quick and probably non-working workaround. The correct  
> way is to initialize Plexus in XMLRPC mode too. Right now it's  
> initialized in Servlet mode only I think.
>
> For example if you need to do any velocity stuff (which is the case in  
> the XMLRPC API I believe when retrieving a page's rendered content) it  
> won't work since Velocity rendering is now done in a component.
>
> I guess I'll have to look into this to do a proper Plexus  
> initialization in XMLRPC mode.
>
> -Vincent
>
>   
>> Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Ludovic,
>>>
>>> I've been working on assembling a servlet using your webdav code,  
>>> xwiki-core
>>> and other relevant dependencies. Although i could deploy the WebDAV  
>>> servlet,
>>> I have few things I can't get pass,
>>>
>>> * What do I need to do so that once deployed the webdav servlet  
>>> will use an
>>> instance of hsqldb ( like the stand-alone xwiki installation ) ?
>>>
>>> * Currently when I make a request to the servlet, I get the  
>>> following error,
>>>
>>> 2008-04-02 20:21:19,597 [http://localhost:8080/DAVServer/]
>>> [http-8080-Processor24] ERROR [/DAVServer].[DAVServlet]       -
>>> Servlet.service() for servlet DAVServlet threw exception
>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>    at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:396)
>>>    at com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.prepareContext(Utils.java:274)
>>>    at
>>> com 
>>> .xpn 
>>> .xwiki 
>>> .plugin 
>>> .webdav 
>>> .XWikiDavResourceImpl.getXWikiContext(XWikiDavResourceImpl.java:317)
>>>    at
>>> com 
>>> .xpn 
>>> .xwiki 
>>> .plugin 
>>> .webdav.XWikiDavResourceImpl.<init>(XWikiDavResourceImpl.java:180)
>>>    at
>>> com 
>>> .xpn 
>>> .xwiki 
>>> .plugin 
>>> .webdav 
>>> .XWikiResourceFactoryImpl 
>>> .createResource(XWikiResourceFactoryImpl.java:96)
>>>    at
>>> com 
>>> .xpn 
>>> .xwiki 
>>> .plugin 
>>> .webdav 
>>> .XWikiResourceFactoryImpl 
>>> .createResource(XWikiResourceFactoryImpl.java:63)
>>>    at
>>> com 
>>> .xpn 
>>> .xwiki.plugin.webdav.XWikiDavServlet.service(XWikiDavServlet.java: 
>>> 340)
>>>
>>> Tracking down reveals that the code in Utils,
>>>
>>> ComponentManager componentManager =
>>>            (ComponentManager)
>>> engine_context.getAttribute(ComponentManager.class.getName());
>>>        context.put(ComponentManager.class.getName(),  
>>> componentManager);
>>>
>>> Is throwing a null-pointer exception where componentManager is  
>>> NULL. I
>>> believe this has something to with plexus, could tell me how to  
>>> overcome
>>> this ?
>>>
>>> I'm sort of stuck at this point, any help is really appreciated.
>>>
>>> Btw, Ludovic, how were you able to test your code ?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>> - Asiri
>>>       
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