[Building Sakai] /direct/ access to msgcntr topics

[Adam Marshall]

We're working in this area at the moment (with 2.8) and far as I know we haven't hit this issue. Marc, who is working on this, is off work today but I'll get him to respond tomorrow.

adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of George Pipkin
> Sent: 19 March 2012 19:30
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: [Building Sakai] /direct/ access to msgcntr topics
> 
> Hi -
> 
>     I'm writing about a feature that we have come to use quite heavily
> in 2.7.x that apparently is not working in 2.8.x.  Under 2.7.x, we were
> able to view a forum topic directly with a url that looks like this:
> 
> https://sakai7.itc.virginia.edu/direct/forum_topic/<toipicId>?p=1
> 
> 
> Under 2.8.x, all that comes back is an error indicating that the entity
> cannot be
> found, even though the topicId is correct and produces output in other
> invocations of this particular entity provider.  There are a couple of
> things that are puzzling about this.  First off all - under 2.7.x the
> entity provider in question (ForumTopicEntityProviderImpl) does not
> implement the RequestHandler interface, and there is no EVAP in sight to
> provide this functionality. However, it does work under v2.7.x, and does
> not under v2.8.x.  I notice that there have been a number of additions
> to this class in 2.8.x.  However, I can't figure out how they would have
> interfered with this.  I was wondering if anybody could shed any light
> on what might have happened ?
> 
>                                  - George Pipkin
>                                      U.Va.
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