[Owncloud] URL shortening

[Michael Grosser]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Christian Reiner
<foss at christian-reiner.info> wrote:
> Hi all,
> let me just add a remark or two, since I am the author of the 'Shorty' app:
>
> On Tuesday 06 November 2012 16:31:26 Michael Grosser wrote:
>> I actually think it's better to have that as a separate app. The
>> shorty app is quite alright and has a lot of features someone with a
>> short link wants.
>> It's not only about the link size, but also tracking, reassigning
>> shortened urls etc.
>> Shorty is already providing that, I think the thing to do is just
>> enabling a shorten with shorty option within sharing, not sure if the
>> shorty app can do that with the new sharing api, I'm not that code
>> aware with the sharing api...
>
> an integration of Shorty into the sharing feature of owncloud is something I
> was indeed asked about. Unfortunately all my attempts into that direction did
> not really provide a satisfying result.
> I am currently unable to invest time into that, I am afraid. I would love to,
> but I have other things to do right now... So if anyone wants to step forward
> and give it a try that would be great! Currently Shortys source is not inside
> github but in a subversion repository of mine. There are various reasons for
> this, but that certainly is something that can be sorted out.
>
> My suggestion would be to keep things as simple as possible. The current
> sharing feature provides two important aspects: a) it generates URLs to access
> items, and Shorty is dealing with URLs. Fine. b) it takes care of a fine
> grained rights management, Shorty in contrast does not do this (double this)
> and there are good reasons for that. So in my eyes the best would be to leave
> sharing as it works, except for adding a small logic that integrates the
> Shorty feature into the sharing dialog. Something like this: if an item is
> shared (however), an additional option "create Shorty" is offered. This calls
> and fills the "New Shorty" dialog already present in the Shorty app in the
> same way the 'Shortlet' already does from outside. This way the internal
> rights management is not in danger of being bypassed. If an object is unshared
> the still existing Shorty resolves to a denial.
> Unfortunately the Share API does not provide such feature of an additional
> option in the sharing dialog. So if we are talking about an app-centric
> approach the only solution I see is to inject the option into the html markup
> by means of js. THis should work, though it is not exactly a bulletproof
> approach, since the markup of the sharing dialog might change. I would suggest
> to provide such feature as an additional plugin to Shorty, just as the 'Shorty
> Tracking' plugin already enhances Shortys features. Such additional plugin
> should be implemented such that it an handle different layouts of the sharing
> dialog being present. This way it is up to the local user (admin) if such
> integration is enabled or not.
+1 for the ideas
>
> Christian Reiner (arkascha)
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