[railroad-dev] Re: [silva-dev] raildoad and silva q's

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

Andy Altepeter wrote:
> I tried posting this to the railroad-dev at codespeak.net list, but the message 
> never went though.

I think it did get through (I saw your retry even :-) I just didn't have the
time yet to respond and I was just to late to catch you on #railroad...

> 1)  using a program like cadaver, how can one upload a file and make
> it available in silva?  No entries get placed in the postgres database
> so using the 'find' links under the test tab in service_railroad
> doesn't turn them up.

Indeed. They don't show up, because the CMS (Silva in this case) at the moment
needs to know about the resource. And there's no way (yet) for Railroad to
inform Silva about the newly created resources. So, only if you create the
resource through Silva, Silva knows about its existence.

> 2) How could some items not be owned?  The find tool only searches for
> unowned objects, but that can't happen if you need to be authenticated
> before uploading?

The owner of the resource, is the CMS that created it. In other words, if you
upload something to the RR-server, bypassing the CMS, this resource is unowned.

> 3) Using cadaver (or a silva railroad proxy/formupload), I can't login to my 
> repository (e.g.
> altepeter.net/rrr/repo) as someone other than the administrator of the
> repository.  How do I do this?

Uhm, dunno... (Guido, do you have an idea?)

> 4) How can you search in silva for an object in railroad, and create
> an asset for it? Do you always need to upload the file using a
> railroad proxy?

Essentially, yes, you at the moment can only use RR resources within the CMS if
you have a corresponding proxy object in the CMS.

> 5) It would be neat if there could be a silva railroad collection proxy.
> This object would function like a silva folder (probably implementing
> the IFolder interface), and allow navigability of the railroad
> collection.  This would eliminate the need to have individual
> created-by-hand railroad proxies for each object.  One could forsee
> extending this into a nice silva-based (with metadata!) image gallery
> product...

This would be nice indeed!!

You may have noticed the "not yet", "at the moment" and "currently" in my
answers. RR is still in a fairly early stage of development and most of the
questions you asked, point to valid use-cases and have been thought of before by
us and by others. Now its only a matter of finding some time to work on these
nice ideas...

HTH


regards,
jw
-- 
Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
jw at infrae.com