[patch]webdav properties to metadata

Best, Jan-Pascal van j.p.vanbest at tbm.tudelft.nl
Wed May 29 09:33:50 BST 2002


Hi Hamish,

> >For this I need to access the data that PROPFIND or SEARCH
> 
> I would think that sending all of the data unimpeded would 
> probably the best 
> way, as you say. Is there a limit on the metadata? 
No idea, but it looks like a QMap<QString,QString> so 
there shouldn't be a problem.

> The easiest way might be 
> to just pass all of the response XML as "davResponse" or 
> similar. That way we 
> don't have to bloat http.cc with heaps of interpreting code 
> likely to only be 
> used in one place.
Sounds good to me. http.cc is bloated enough as it is.
Then the application side will parse the XML. It's a bit of a pity
though that this XML is already parsed in davStatList.

> > - This would add a LOT of information to each STAT.
> 
> I don't think this is too much of a consideration. Still, we 
> could have 
> metadata "davRequestResponse", which directs kio_http to 
> respond with the "davResponse" metadata, sound good?
Yep, I'll do that.

Cheers
Jan-Pascal




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