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

[Jim Eng]

You can also store content in Content  Hosting directly from another  
webapp.  You will need to inject the Content Hosting Service into the  
class that needs to do this.  CHS has methods for creating new  
resources and folders. This seems like a better approach than the  
access servlet if your tool is inside sakai.

The filepicker is also a good approach because sakai users will be  
familiar with the user interface for either uploading a new file or  
selecting an existing resource.  But if you are creating the file by  
recording audio or video and streaming that directly into your tool,  
then maybe you will want to save the file in CHS using the API.

Jim



On Apr 12, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Casey Dunn wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Tiago Gaspar  
> <tiagocgaspar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Sorry to insisit, i really need a way out...
>
> any one?
>
> Tiago, hi there.
>
> I didn't follow the detail of your original message (below) asto  
> just how your sakai tool recorded audio and video and
> stored the results in some kind of media servers. Or did you want to  
> duplicate the content in Sakai? if so then why
> have media servers? wassup with that?
>
> however here are some other ideas for you:
>
> A) store a reference (URL, etc) in Sakai to whatever external  
> gateway the media servers provide.
> B) push the content into sakai using the the CHS Access servlet.
>
> My company just finished a project for Stanford wherein a standalone  
> app displays QT movies and records QT movies as responses, storing
> all the content in Sakai sites. Sakai is used for ACLs and such.
>
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> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Tiago Gaspar  
> <tiagocgaspar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
> Using FilePicker Helper:
> Make the flv folder in the media server accessible through Apache.
> Set the upload Textfield URL in FilePicker Helper.
> The user would just have to press the add button.
> Attach files programmatically
> Make the flv folder in the media server accessible through Apache.
> 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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