Looks good to me. I think using only one "_" before the grouping name is enough. Guillaume On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Asiri Rathnayake <[email protected]

wrote:

Hi Devs,

In the current xwiki-webdav implementation we have introduced a feature where all the pages under a certain space is grouped according to the starting characters of those pages. For an example, consider the following setup :

space : Farm

pages under Farm : Dog, Cat, Donkey, Carrot, Mouse

Then the user will see the following directory structure on webdav,

xwiki/webdav/spaces/Farm/ | |-D (Dog & Donkey goes here) | |-C (Cat & Carrot goes here) | |-M (Mouse ends up here)

Note : How many starting characters used to make groupings depends on the number of documents inside the space.

Now, from xwiki-ui to access various documents via webdav, we have to allow direct access to pages as well. That is, following url pattern should work fine :

xwiki/webdav/spaces/<space_name>/<page_name> (makes sense right ?)

Now the problem with the current implementation is that in a url like xwiki/webdav/spaces/FOO/BAR we don't know whether BAR is a grouping or if it is a page (direct access). So I propose the following :

* All the grouped directories should start with a "_" and end with a "_" (may be only one of them, but i like symmetric)

By this way we can easily differentiate direct page requests from indirect access.

Ex :

Indirect : /xwiki/webdav/spaces/Foo/_D_/D

Direct : /xwiki/webdav/spaces/Foo/D

Note : Here the page name is 'D'.

WDYT ?

Thanks.

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