WebDAV support for Alfresco WCM

[pqr]

Hi All,

We want to know if there is any support for accessing web content(under AVM store) using webDAV.
If, yes then how we can do it?

Here is what we tried:
We used the url: 'http://server:8080/alfresco/webdav', but we can't access AVM storage using this.

We found this when we searched more on this issue:
    http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=5669&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=webdav

There's also a post which gives conflicting message:
   http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=22141&p=72904&hilit=WebDAV#p72904

Please help.
This is urgent..
Thanks in advance..

[janv]

This is not supported out-of-the-box. See also enhancement request: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-174

It should be noted that the WebDAV interface primarily uses the FileFolderService etc. Most of the service methods should also work with AVM-style nodeRefs (since AVM provides an in-built projection via AVMNodeService) so in theory it should be possible to extend the WebDAV interface to expose WCM/AVM stores.

For example, one option might be to extend the WebDAVHelper to map the selected "/Web Projects" path to the list of available web projects for the current user (eg. via WebProjectService) and then map the selected "/Web Projects/mywebproject" path to the current user's sandbox (eg. via SandboxService) to provide an AVM-style rootNodeRef (eg. "avm://mywebproject–admin/-1;"). The remaining WebDAV methods should then be able to use the AVM-style nodeRefs (eg. "avm://mywebproject–admin/-1;www;avm_webapps;ROOT;mydir"). If you go down this custom route then you may also require a minor bug fix to AVMNodeService itself, eg.

svn diff projects/repository/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/avm/AVMNodeService.java
Index: projects/repository/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/avm/AVMNodeService.java
===================================================================
— projects/repository/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/avm/AVMNodeService.java   (revision 17819)
+++ projects/repository/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/avm/AVMNodeService.java   (working copy)
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 import org.alfresco.model.ContentModel;
 import org.alfresco.model.WCMModel;
+import org.alfresco.repo.avm.util.AVMUtil;
 import org.alfresco.repo.domain.PropertyValue;
 import org.alfresco.repo.node.AbstractNodeServiceImpl;
 import org.alfresco.service.cmr.avm.AVMException;
@@ -1736,7 +1737,7 @@
         try
         {
             AVMNodeDescriptor child = fAVMService.lookup(avmVersionPath.getFirst(),
-                                                         avmVersionPath.getSecond());
+                                                         AVMUtil.extendAVMPath(avmVersionPath.getSecond(), childName));
             if (child == null)
             {
                 return null;
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Regards,
Jan

[pqr]

Thanks Jan

So we can confirm that OOTB webDAV support for  WCM or AVM store is not availble