15 Jul
2010
15 Jul
'10
4:55 p.m.
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 of
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?
Thanks,
Carlos
15 Jul
15 Jul
7:32 p.m.
You might have a look at the file upload plugin, it allows files to be put
on the server (and downloaded from it) without being attachments which take
up space in the database.
Caleb
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 of
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?
Thanks,
Carlos
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16 Jul
16 Jul
12:10 a.m.
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 of
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 filesystem;
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 general
documentation about components
- write a servlet or a struts action which can be used to retrieve the
contents of the file; make sure you're not creating a security hole,
check the absolute path requested by the user; a good example would be
http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/…
- register the above servlet/struts action in web.xml, respectively
struts-config.xml
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25 Jul
25 Jul
7:32 a.m.
Caleb James DeLisle <calebdelisle@...> writes:
You might have a look at the file upload plugin, it allows files to be put
on the server (and downloaded from it) without being attachments which take
up space in the database.
How to use it? Is there any frontend available?
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