Re: directorygenerator for a shared drive

[Joerg Heinicke <jh...@virbus.de>]

Forwarded from users list. If you need the whole thread read here: 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-users&m=106665805232126&w=2.

Joerg

Jorg Heymans wrote:
> no prob. It shouldn't be a security problem because i have transformers 
> reading from shared drives as well.
> 
> I just stepped through the code with a debugger, findings below
>  From the cocoon source (directorygenerator.java)
> 
> if (!directoryFile.isDirectory()) {
>                throw new ResourceNotFoundException(directory + " is not 
> a directory.");
> }
> --> exception thrown here, stepping into the isDirectory() call...
>    public boolean isDirectory() {
>    SecurityManager security = System.getSecurityManager();
>    if (security != null) {
>        security.checkRead(path);
>    }
>    return ((fs.getBooleanAttributes(this) & FileSystem.BA_DIRECTORY)
>        != 0);
>    }
> 
> The security manager here is null. The return tail call are all native 
> (bleh) so i can't peek there.
> 
> any thoughts? Could you bring this up on the dev list maybe?
> 
> Regards
> Jorg
> 
> Joerg Heinicke wrote:
> 
>> Oh, I seem to have missed an important point: shared drive. I simply 
>> listed another drive than the Cocoon's one on the same machine. But 
>> this makes it a bit strange, doesn't it? What's the difference between 
>> a shared drive and "another" drive from Java's point of view? It's the 
>> Windows' task to handle the mapping correctly. Maybe there is only a 
>> "non access" error?
>>
>> Sorry for any irritations triggered by my nonattention.
>>
>> Joerg
>>
>> Jorg Heymans wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Joerg.
>>>
>>> Tnx for testing. It still does not work for me (winxp, java 1.4.1_02, 
>>> cocoon 2.0.4)
>>>
>>> Can anyone else on the list test a quick sitemap snippet :
>>>
>>>    <map:match pattern="remotedir">
>>>        <map:generate type="directory" src="Z:\temp" />
>>>        <map:serialize type="xml"/>
>>>    </map:match>
>>>
>>> Where Z: is a drive mapping to another windows machine, temp is the 
>>> name of the share (can be anything ofcourse).
>>> For me this is *not* working and i can't for the love of god find out 
>>> why.
>>>
>>> Something must be conflicting within cocoon because below java 
>>> snippet works
>>> File directoryFile = new File("z:\\temp");
>>> if (!directoryFile.isDirectory()) {
>>>   System.out.println("not a directory");
>>> }
>>>
>>> @Joerg : is there anything else i can do to provide you with more 
>>> information? If not then i setup a debugging environment and step 
>>> through that very block of code. This is just too weird :)
>>>
>>> rgds
>>> Jorg
>>>
>>> Joerg Heinicke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Jorg,
>>>>
>>>> sorry I deleted your mail, so I lost the thread, I copied only the 
>>>> subject from the archive.
>>>>
>>>> My test with latest Cocoon 2.0 code: It works. Both <map:generate 
>>>> type="directory" src="Z:\Temp"/> and <map:generate type="directory" 
>>>> src="file:///Z:/Temp"/>. Not surprising from a code point of view: 
>>>> nothing has changed in the handling of the src attribute.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what you are doing wrong. I can only say: It works for 
>>>> me (Win 2k, Sun Java 2 SDK 1.4.2).
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Joerg

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