Alfresco on Windows: maximum path length patch

[angelborroy]

Alfresco Tomcat temporal files are named by using hardcoded prefixes in the source code. As Windows has a 256 characters available for paths, this limit can be reached easily when using LibreOffice transformations.

C:\Alfresco\apache-tomcat\temp\Alfresco\LargeFilenameToIncludeOnTransformation.docx-OpenOfficeContentTransformer-OpenOfficeContentTransformer-1442998872585\LargeFilenameToIncludeOnTransformation.docx-OpenOfficeContentTransformer-target-5667410859729336016.pdf
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We've published a tiny path in order to shorten this path by decreasing temp file prefixes length. After applying this patch, final path should be as follows:

C:\Alfresco\apache-tomcat\temp\Alfresco\LargeFilenameToIncludeOnTransformation.docx-OOCT-OOCT-1442998872585\LargeFilenameToIncludeOnTransformation.docx-OOCT-target-5667410859729336016.pdf
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So you have more characters available for user filenames.

It can be downloaded at https://github.com/keensoft/oo-temp-filename-shortener and it's LGPL licensed.

[resplin]

I didn't see this reported in the issue tracker, so I went ahead and did that.

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-21479

We need to evaluate this for side-effects to see if we can include it.

Thanks Angel for all your contributions!

[angelborroy]

It's a pleasure.

I thought that is was a really minor problem with very few impact: it's only for Windows based servers and for very long filenames. That's why I've not raised an issue. I'll do that next time.

Thanks