[Building Sakai] Attaching files with no user interaction. Can it be done?

[Tiago Gaspar]

Hi,

 I'm working on a sakai tool to record personal audio&video messages to be
used in wikis, annoucements, blog, etc. It will allow the WYSIWYG editors
like FCK and TinyMCE to display those flv files. The recorded messages
should be stored as a archive available in Resources to ease referencing.

 The flv files are stored in the media server (possibly in other machine).
The problem is: How to take the flv file and upload it to Resources?

I though of some options:

   1. Using FilePicker Helper:
   1. Make the flv folder in the media server accessible through Apache.
      2. Set the upload Textfield URL in FilePicker Helper.
      3. The user would just have to press the add button.
   2. Attach files programmatically
   1. Make the flv folder in the media server accessible through Apache.
      2. Call a method to upload the file inside the logic of my tool.

In the 1st approach the challenge is to set the Textfield with the
appropriate URL. Can it be done through FilePicker Helper? This approach
makes the URL visible to the user, which is not a very nice thing...

The 2nd approach seems much better. But how can it be done? The Sakai
documentation is very poor in this matter. Would I need to hack some code
from the content project ?

Thanks is advance,

Tiago Gaspar.
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