[opencms-dev] External editing

[M Butcher]

Tom,

I evaluated creating a module to do this using the SOAP XML protocol. It 
can be done... it's just a lot of work (mainly in implementing the 
client). I didn't want to do it myself.

In the simplest case, SOAP functions would have to exist for checking 
permissions, (un)locking, getting the resource, and posting the edited 
resource. Really, that's not too bad.

I also looked at creating a XUL application (Mozilla-specific client 
application) which would use Mozilla's composer to do the editing. It 
would use the SOAP interface to communicate to the server. This part 
would have been pretty difficult, though. Maybe a Python or Java client 
would be easier.

If enough people are interested, maybe we should try to target a module 
for 6.0. I'm fairly familiar with the OpenCms internals, and would be 
excited to work on the communication layer, but implementing the client 
editor interface sends chills up my spine. ;-)

Matt

Tom Howe wrote:
> As a follow up to a post I made regarding external editing, I discovered 
> that Zope have an external editor application that does just this. It uses 
> a faily standard HTTP post to send the changed data back and webdav for 
> file locking. Might be worth implementing as part of opencms..
> 
> URL is 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/Caseman/ExternalEditor
> 
> Tom
> 
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