[Building Sakai] Drag & Drop notifications

[Daniel Merino]

Hi everybody,

after running D&D in our production 2.9.2 server, our users are really 
happy with the new feature but, as good users, they want more! We have 
been requested to add email notifications to D&D uploads as they are 
already in old resources upload form. I have been looking at the code 
and I have doubts about the best way to do this.

The current mechanism fires an event for every uploaded file with 
commitResource() method and this event is separately configured to send 
an email if user wants to do it. One notification is sent for each file.

However, we think that this has no sense with D&D, as dozens of files 
can be uploaded at a time. If users want to make a notification, a 
single email should be sent with a list of files in it IMHO. So 
commitResource() is also called for every uploaded file and events are 
registered but with no notification and, after uploads have finished, I 
plan to use EmailService in Resouces to send the email, without firing 
any event for it.

I would really like to know your thoughts about this before starting the 
job.

Thanks in advance.
Best regards.
-- 
Daniel Merino Echeverría
daniel.merino at unavarra.es
Gestor de E-learning - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
Tfno: 948-168489 - Universidad Pública de Navarra.