PropPatchMethod Hints

[Tim Frank <tf...@registrar.uoguelph.ca>]

I thought this piece of information might be useful for others who are 
using/setting their own properties. I had some difficulty using the 
PropPatchMethod from the org.apache.webdav.lib.methods class for 
properties that had children/descendants. For example, the auto-version 
property that looks like this:

<D:auto-version>
     <D:checkin-checkout/>
</D:auto-version>

I could remove the property by passing "auto-version" as the property 
name, but I could not create the property on first try. The trick I used 
was to pass the XML portion for the children/descendants as the String 
Value of the property. I noticed that internally all of the XML assembly 
for the request is a string, hence it just gets passed through nicely.

So, if you want to create more complex properties, this is how you can 
create them with the webdav client API. Don't ask me how to retrieve 
those properties with the same API though, I don't think it can be done 
at present.

Tim

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