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Subject: repository block - RepositorySourceFactory
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:02:29 +0100
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Thread-Topic: repository block - RepositorySourceFactory
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From: "Max Pfingsthorn" <m.pfingsthorn@hippo.nl>
To: <dev@cocoon.apache.org>

Dear All,

I thought it might be a good idea to make repository handling in cocoon =
a little easier. For that, I would like to extend the Repository =
interface with a getSource(String uri, Map params) method so that the =
RepositorySourceFactory could use it to get a source from a repository. =
Right now RepositorySourceFactory doesn't do much else than wrapping =
another source in RepositorySource, so something more useful might be =
nice.

It would be very useful to configure a repository location once and then =
call something like

repository:somename:/a/path/to/a/resource

or, with a default repository:

repository:/a/path/to/a/resource

and get the right credentials, protocol, base path, and such. That's =
what we do at Hippo (in our own very homegrown kind of way) and it has =
been working very well.

The nice thing would be though that it would work for any Repository =
implementation afterwards (even though there is only WebDAVRepository =
right now). Maybe the JCR stuff can be adapted as well (a =
o.a.c.components.repository.Repository adaptor to javax.jcr.Repository).

WDYT?

Best regards,

Max Pfingsthorn

Hippo =20

Oosteinde 11
1017WT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel  +31 (0)20 5224466
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