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/j... - register the above servlet/struts action in web.xml, respectively struts-config.xml -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/