[Building Sakai] Project Keitai MSGCNTR work

[Bryan Holladay]

Please make sure that all current functionality is accounted for too.
 There are two different direct calls in Msgcntr: 1 that takes you to that
particular message or topic and one that gives you the json/xml for that
message/topic/forum.  You can use tools like the new iSyllabus entity
picker or Lesson Builder (which I think is a hack and not a /direct/ call
for msgcntr).  There's also the copy the URL function for messages.  I've
seen many people ignore and rewrite the existing REST functions before (not
saying you are or will, just trying to help):  It's fairly confusing since
you have two styles of REST points which each use two different services.
 The redirects use MessageForumsFilePickerServlet  while the REST feature
uses EntityBroker's ActionsExecutable.  Here's a recent jira about this:
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-548

"So now the redirect works as it used to by calling:

/direct/forum_topic/{topicid}

which will take you to that tool

and the RESTful functions are:

/direct/topic/forum/{forumid}
/direct/topic/site/{siteid}
/direct/topic/private/{siteid}"


I'm looking forward to all improvements to msgcntr and I don't envy you :)
-Bryan



On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've started work on the messages and forums part of project Keitai
> (mobile support).
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-795
>
> Up to now, in trunk, I've moved the current entity providers into the tool
> project. REST stuff makes more sense in the tool along with the UI code,
> and it also speeds up development hugely when you can just redeploy the
> webapp portion to get the updated providers. I've also started adding get
> support to the forum entity provider. Please note that I'm not just
> committing this stuff; I'm doing it as a patch which will be reviewed
> before being committed.
>
> I know that there are quite a few msgcntr entity provider efforts going on
> in the community, IU and LOI being two of them, and I don't want to
> alienate those efforts in any way. With that in mind I'd appreciate it if
> such folk could chip in on the JIRA ticket. I'm particularly interested in
> calling conventions. What search restrictions do you want to support in
> collections resolvable calls, that kind of thing. Samples of urls that you
> are using in your local versions would be really useful. Urls that you
> think would be nice are also worth adding to the ticket.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
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