Re: [Wikitech-l] WebDAV

-- Jamie Hari Editor-in-Chief Marvel & DC Database Projects On 6/14/07, Jack Bates ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote: > > I'm working on a WebDAV interface to MediaWiki, based on the WebDAV > module I contributed to the Gallery project: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WebDAV > > The goal of this project is: > * To support connecting to MediaWiki with WebDAV clients like > [http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/ cadaver] and > [http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/fusedav/ fusedav]. > * To support integrating MediaWiki with editors that support WebDAV, > like Emacs and Eclipse. > * To explore MediaWiki article histories with WebDAV clients that > support the WebDAV versioning extension, DeltaV. > * To support connecting to MediaWiki with a Subversion client like the > command line or Eclipse Subclipse plugin. > > Connecting with Subversion is in the scope of this project because > Subversion supports a protocol which is very close to WebDAV and DeltaV: > http://subversion.tigris.org/webdav-usage.html > > By supporting Subversion clients, I can edit MediaWiki articles using > the Emacs version control mode and I can explore MediaWiki article > histories using the Eclipse Subclipse plugin. If I maintain a software > project's documentation in MediaWiki, I can use the Subversion > [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html > externals] feature to checkout MediaWiki articles along with the source > code. These can then be distributed with the project or converted to PDF > or manpage using XSL as part of the build process. > > So far I have implemented: > * Some WebDAV features: GET, PUT, PROPFIND and DELETE. I can edit > articles with cadaver, fusedav, Emacs and Eclipse. > * Some DeltaV features: version-tree and baseline support. I can explore > article histories and old revisions with cadaver. > * Subversion checkout: I can checkout articles from the command line and > explore article histories with Subclipse. Checkin will need support for > the svndiff format, which happily is well documented in the Subversion > source. > > You can install it by executing in your MediaWiki root directory: > > svn co http://svn.freegeek.org/svn/mediawiki-webdav/trunk . > > However the code is still very "proof of concept" - I'm still figuring > out how the code will be finally organized. Unless I can contribute this > interface to the MediaWiki project, I guess it should be organized as a > MediaWiki extension? However I'm still getting familiar with how > MediaWiki delegates requests to extensions. Most WebDAV clients demand > hierarchical URLs and don't support query strings, so I currently use > two additional PHP landing pages in the MediaWiki root directory: > * webdav.php handles WebDAV requests for articles like > webdav.php/<MediaWiki_Article_Name> > * deltav.php is responsible for DeltaV functionality. Its layout is > based on Subversion's, e.g. deltav.php/ver/<Revision_ID>, > deltav.php/bc/<Revision_ID>, etc. > > If I continue using this layout, I will spend some time cleaning and > reorganizing the code. But before I do, I'd love some feedback from > MediaWiki developers: Is this a reasonable design? What are the > alternatives to and the consequences of introducing these two new > landing pages? > > Eventually, I would like to move this project to the MediaWiki > Subversion repository. Here is my SSH public key, signed with my GPG > key: http://cgi.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/freegeek/id_dsa.pub.gpg > > My username is "jablko". > > I look forward to your input on this project! Thanks, Jack > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >