Toro Briefcase and WebDAV integration

[loulou2u]

Hi,

One of my tasks this summer is to get our toro briefcase portlet to
include our user's home directory using webDAV. I was previously told
that I need to create a Resource Factory much like the
FsResourceFactory or RdbmsResourceFactory that will connect to our
WebDAV server. But thinking ahead I am also wondering what access
broker I will need to use (JvmAccessBroker) or will I need to write my
own? I'm not really sure what the access broker's purpose is, as I am
trying to figure out everything.

Any clarifications or suggestions would be very helpful.

Thanks,
Laura

[Andrew Wills]

The AccessBroker's responsibility is to associate a level of access
(e.g. VIEW, EDIT, DELETE) with a resource and a principal (i.e. user).

Inside the BriefcasePortlet, the Java code uses an AccessBroker
instance to fetch instances of ResourceFactory that describe resources
that users may access.

I think it's unlikely you'll have to write a new AccesBroker implementation.

drew wills

[loulou2u]

Oh ok, that makes sense.

Thanks for the help.

-Laura

On Jul 10, 3:04 pm, "Andrew Wills" <wills.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The AccessBroker's responsibility is to associate a level of access
> (e.g. VIEW, EDIT, DELETE) with a resource and a principal (i.e. user).
>
> Inside the BriefcasePortlet, the Java code uses an AccessBroker
> instance to fetch instances of ResourceFactory that describe resources
> that users may access.
>
> I think it's unlikely you'll have to write a new AccesBroker implementation.
>
> drew wills
>

[loulou2u]

Do you happen to know if there is a way to access the username in a
factory resource without using the PortletRequest?

[loulou2u]

Nevermind, I actually figured out that I could use the
UserAttributeManager class to get the Attributes.

Laura