[Building Sakai] Project Keitai MSGCNTR work

[Adrian Fish]

Hi Bryan,

Thanks for the info. I had seen the two types of direct calls so I'll take
care not to trash the redirectors. Can you, or somebody, suggest a good QA
type test to make sure I've not broken that stuff? I'll keep testing as I
go.

Cheers,
Adrian.


On 15 March 2013 12:58, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com> wrote:

> 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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