Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS

Datum: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:27:48 -0500 Von: Carlos Correa <carloscorrea137(a)gmail.com> An: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS

This is a bit of a late reply, but I've implemented this and am wondering what you would recommend doing about security with this approach. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.com>

> > On 07/15/2010 04:55 PM, Carlos Correa wrote: > > One of the users of the xwiki server (*nix) that I'm helping with has > > an interesting feature request. He wants a wiki page with a listing

> > Microsoft Office files that are in a unix directory. He wants to be > > able to click on one of the file names and have it download. > > > > I don't know enough about xwiki to know how to cause a download to > > occur on the user's side. The only solution I can think of is > > attaching the files to the page and scripting regular updating (which > > is very clunky). Is there a more elegant way to cause downloads to > > occur on the user's end without adding the file as an attachment? > > Well, XWiki is a java application, so the easiest thing to do is to > write a Java component that does this. Assuming you have a recent > version of XWiki, you should: > - write a scriptable service which can list the files on the

> should be a ScriptService component if you're targeting XWiki 2.3 or > later, or a VelocityContextInitializer for earlier; see > http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/ComponentModule for

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