Activity
From 07/22/2000 to 08/20/2000
08/20/2000
- 10:49 PM Bug #92 (Resolved): need access control tracking for metadata documents
- Need to create a mechanism for tracking access control information for metadata
documents. This might be doen by cr... - 08:58 PM Bug #46: metacat insert fails on some documents
- Dan verified that this bug still exists. Reassigned to bojilova.
08/18/2000
- 03:48 PM Revision 387 (metacat): redirector to access the marine servlet
- 03:45 PM Revision 386 (metacat): modified the xsl to work with the new servlet architecture.o
- 03:44 PM Revision 385 (metacat): marineServlet now overrides the transformQuery() function to allow it to put the values back into the text boxes of the xsl stylesheet rendered form.
- 03:41 PM Revision 384 (metacat): -fixed the bug where a pathquery document was not valid inside of the <query> tags in a resultset document.
- -provided override support for a new function called transformQuery() which allows specific applications to
custom... - 11:05 AM Revision 383 (metacat): Fixed small bug in transforming the document to HTML. If there was
- no stylesheet for a given doctype, and so the transformation couldn't
occur, the XML doc was returned, but the conten... - 10:56 AM Revision 382 (metacat): removed extraneous protected tags and replaced them with private tags
- 10:38 AM Revision 380 (metacat): Modified behavior of handleSQuery() to now send the resultset document
- back to the client application -- this was a bug introduced by recent
changes to the servlet. Also, generally cleaned... - 10:26 AM Bug #63 (Resolved): methods in MetaCatServlet should be private not protected
- Many of the helper methods in MetaCatServlet have been changed to "protected"
from their original "private" state. M... - 09:31 AM Revision 379 (metacat): decrease the number of "initialConnections" to 5, "increaseConnections" stay 5, decrease the "maximumConnections" to 10
08/17/2000
- 05:31 PM Revision 378 (metacat): Changed release to version to alpha 8 (1.0a8) and tagged metacat in
- CVS as METACAT_ALPHA_8
- 05:29 PM Revision 377 (metacat): Updated default html forms for metacat queries to use the "anyfield"
- keyword for constructing a default query. This should now work with
the new handleQuery method of MetaCatServlet.
Bu... - 03:21 PM Revision 376 (metacat): changed to work with the new MetaCatServlet model. marineServlet now only overwrites one method in MetaCatServlet.
- 03:20 PM Revision 375 (metacat): changed the prototype of overwritable functions to "protected" instead of "private".
- 01:35 PM Bug #52: Change link to project abstract
- It was changed
- 11:06 AM Revision 374 (metacat): change the resultset format for DataGuide
- 09:25 AM Bug #58: add eml-resource to the catalog
- resource was added to the catalog and to xml_catalog in the database.
- 09:04 AM Revision 373 (metacat): Changed the flow of query and SQuery. SQuery now only handles a preformatted pathquery document as input (in the "query" parameter).
- HandleQuery now handles all structured queries derived by CGI parameters.
- 09:02 AM Revision 372 (metacat): Made changes to createSQuery to allow for multiple parameters of the same name. Also changed the param list to include only "Hashtable params" without a "String doctype" since the doctype is already contained in the params.
08/16/2000
- 01:08 PM Revision 371 (metacat): fixed bug with handleSQuery() that kept DMan from access the squery functionality
- 11:48 AM Revision 370 (metacat): - created transformResultset() which transforms an xml resultset document and displays it to the client useing DBTransform
- - renamed transformDocument() to createResultDocument() and modified its functionality to only return a restultset xm...
08/15/2000
- 04:07 PM Revision 369 (metacat): Changed "xmltodb" to "@html-path@/style" so that the resultset.xsl
- stylesheet could be found in various servlet contexts.
- 03:29 PM Revision 367 (metacat): changed release version
- 03:27 PM Revision 366 (metacat): Modified binaries to change classpath for metacat.jar under new
- build process.
- 02:52 PM Revision 365 (metacat): Repository reorganization, and some file cleanup to make the XSL and CSS
- files portable to various installations of metacat (by using the
build.xml file substitution in the XSL files). Remov... - 02:25 PM Revision 363 (metacat): removed unneeded replace command
- 02:24 PM Revision 362 (metacat): Added user and password to build.xml for filter substitution.
- 01:48 PM Revision 361 (metacat): remove handleQueryAction() in favor of directly calling handleQuery() and handleSQuery() from doGetOrPost()
- 01:37 PM Bug #62: hardcoded paths should be config parameters
- DONE
All hardcoded paths in MetaCatServlet.java to the location of .html files are
changed with "htmlpath" parameter ... - 01:02 PM Revision 360 (metacat): Cleared hardcoded paths for the location of .html files and use
- the new "htmlpath" property from metacat.properties file
- 12:48 PM Revision 359 (metacat): sorry, I needed new property "html-path" with value "/xmltodb" for me.
- Chad, for you should be I think "/berkley"
- 12:15 PM Revision 358 (metacat): New "servletpath" and "installdir" properties
- 12:14 PM Revision 357 (metacat): Set a filter for installdir property
- 11:25 AM Revision 356 (metacat): set filtering="yes" attribute on the copy command of metacat.properties
- 10:00 AM Bug #49: need anonymous user login as default for metacat
- DONE
Anonymous user login has been included as default to metacat. From the
metacat's web interface user goes directl... - 08:58 AM Revision 355 (metacat): Added decodeMouseAction(Hashtable) to decode the mouse click action outside of handleGetOrPost to allow for easy modification of images in a different application.
08/14/2000
- 03:31 PM Revision 354 (metacat): added new constructor to allow the creation of a metacatutil object that uses a properties file other than edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.metacat.
- 03:22 PM Revision 353 (metacat): Fixed build.xml bug -- jar file was included recursively in itself, causing
- ever-growing size of jar on install. Changed location of jar file that is
built (from build.dest to build.dir) to fi... - 03:09 PM Revision 352 (metacat): added eml-resource to the catalog
- 02:40 PM Bug #57: changes to handleQueryAction
- I ended up breaking handleQueryAction into 4 different functions.
handleSQuery-handles structured queries
handleQuery... - 02:28 PM Revision 351 (metacat): Broke up handleQueryAction into handleQuery, handleSQuery, runQuery and transformDocument. handleQueryAction is now a base function which makes calls to each of these functions to create, run and transform a query from CGI parameters.
- 02:26 PM Revision 350 (metacat): Added createSQuery() to handle structured queries of an arbitrary number of parameters. Also modified createQuery() to handle a null query in a graceful manner.
- 01:53 PM Revision 349 (metacat): Added "release" keyword to all metacat source files so that the release
- number will be evident in software distributions.
- 01:43 PM Revision 348 (metacat): Updated build process to now use a copy of the source files so that keyword
- substitution can ocur before the build. This allows for substitution of
hardcoded values into the source before the ... - 11:27 AM Revision 347 (metacat): added Logout link
- 11:27 AM Revision 346 (metacat): added Logout handling
- 11:11 AM Revision 345 (metacat): clear lib dir from paths like xmltodb/lib/something.html
- 10:59 AM Revision 344 (metacat): on "DELETE" added delete from xml_index table for a given docid
- before delete from xml_documents, b' of foreign key in xml_index(docid)
to xml_documents(docid)
08/11/2000
- 03:20 PM Revision 343 (metacat): Changed exception handling mechanisms for DBReader
- 11:26 AM Revision 342 (metacat): added createSQuery
- 11:25 AM Revision 341 (metacat): broke up handleQueryAction into handleQuery, handleSQuery, runQuery and transformDocument
08/10/2000
- 04:30 PM Revision 340 (metacat): changed paths
- 03:39 PM Revision 339 (metacat): changed getRootNode method from public to private
- 03:37 PM Bug #62 (Resolved): hardcoded paths should be config parameters
- MetaCatServlet has some hardcoded paths that should be removed and put in the
configuration files. Mostly these are... - 03:34 PM Revision 338 (metacat): simple JavaScript to put focus on username field
- 02:48 PM Revision 337 (metacat): replaced some deprecated methods with the new v2.2 of Java Servlet API
- 02:47 PM Revision 336 (metacat): changed paths, b' of new dev server
- 01:45 PM Revision 335 (metacat): no message
- 12:13 PM Revision 334 (metacat): changing paths, b' of new dev environment
- 11:59 AM Revision 333 (metacat): added HTTPSession.setMaxInactiveInterval(-1)
- for every new Session - never to expire
- 11:56 AM Revision 332 (metacat): added "anonymous" user connection
08/09/2000
- 04:17 PM Revision 331 (metacat): updated properties file to reflect new db location
- 02:51 PM Bug #61 (Resolved): new resultset dtd spec
- for return type make a <param name="xxx"> instead of <name></name>. This can be
used for more specific stylesheet c... - 02:48 PM Bug #60 (Resolved): use querySpecification
- All queries should be created through querySpecification instead of creating the
sql withing the client servlet. - 02:47 PM Bug #59 (Resolved): create a more general specification for queries
- work on a way to search through different fields from
different standards making the query more general - 02:18 PM Bug #58 (Resolved): add eml-resource to the catalog
- eml-resource should be added to the catalog with the appropriate stylesheet. It
also needs to be added to the sqlca... - 02:16 PM Bug #57 (Resolved): changes to handleQueryAction
- split handleQueryAction into three seperate functions. One to create a query
(createQuery), another to create an sq... - 02:10 PM Bug #56 (Resolved): code shifts and removals
- The following methods should be removed from marineServlet since they are
already implemented in metacatServlet:
do... - 02:00 PM Bug #55 (Resolved): change order of fields
- The order of the fields should be the following.
title alt title
keywords any field
Dataset... - 01:58 PM Bug #54 (Resolved): title and altitle fields are too small
- title and alttitle should be larger than 15 characters.
- 01:56 PM Bug #53 (Resolved): Interface does not look good in 800x600
- Change the interface so that the graphics are not as big in lower resolutions
- 01:55 PM Bug #52 (Resolved): Change link to project abstract
- The link should be www.nceas.ucsb.edu/marinedata/
08/08/2000
- 06:19 PM Bug #33: problems with replicating of DTDs, because of PUBLIC IDs
- Assigned to Jivka
- 06:16 PM Bug #20: DBSAXNode constructor can be simplified
- DONE as recommended.
- 06:14 PM Bug #48: need an option to do xml indexing asynchronously
- Can be implemented by starting a new tread from the servlet.
That tread can do the task in a background even after se... - 06:07 PM Bug #47: doctype and docid attr are needed in xml_index table
- DONE
updateNodeIndex(docid, doctype) in DBSAXNode and other related classes are
changed for storing docid and doctype... - 06:02 PM Bug #30: get dataguide function needed by client
- DONE
Implemented as part of DBUtil class.
doctype and docid attr are already added to xml_index table.
Retrieves all ... - 05:55 PM Bug #29: Download DTDs/Schemas for client
- Need to implement download of DTDs/Schemas.
- 05:51 PM Bug #23: creating shared pool of connections in metacat servlet
- DONE
Implemented Pool of Connections only.
DBQuery, DBReader and DBTransform are created on every request.
MetaCatUti... - 05:40 PM Revision 330 (metacat): added web.xml configuration file for Tomcat Servlet engine
- 05:39 PM Revision 329 (metacat): -Reorganized xmltodb module to support new install process for the new
- linux server (dev.nceas.ucsb.edu). Added "build.sh" shell script that
calls ant withthe proper umask set for install...
08/07/2000
- 05:31 PM Revision 328 (metacat): rearrange html pages for login and metacat access
- 03:06 PM Bug #51 (Resolved): adding a non-well-formed document results in a "success" message
- When inserting an xml document that was not well formed into the database, the
servlet returned the following error:... - 02:44 PM Revision 327 (metacat): renamed index.html to metacat.html
- 02:43 PM Revision 326 (metacat): unused
- 11:55 AM Revision 325 (metacat): it was smashed to 95 bytes only
- 11:24 AM Revision 324 (metacat): removed old xmldbms source tree because it is no longer being used as a reference
- 08:13 AM Revision 323 (metacat): no message
08/04/2000
- 05:51 PM Revision 322 (metacat): moved srbProps file
- 04:43 PM Revision 321 (metacat): maximumConnections added
- 04:34 PM Revision 320 (metacat): more precise handling of the Connection Pool
- 01:54 PM Revision 319 (metacat): minor config file update
- 08:32 AM Revision 318 (metacat): no message
08/03/2000
- 04:21 PM Revision 317 (metacat): doctype and docid attr added to xml_index table
- 04:20 PM Revision 316 (metacat): Changes related to "getdataguide" action
- 04:19 PM Revision 315 (metacat): doctype attr in xml_index table has been added
- so changed the getDataGuide routine to select for paths by given doctype
- 04:17 PM Revision 314 (metacat): DBSAXNode constructor simplified
- 04:17 PM Revision 313 (metacat): Call to DBSAXNode constructor simplified
- 04:15 PM Revision 312 (metacat): Added public method to return the rootnodeid of the document
08/02/2000
08/01/2000
- 01:08 PM Revision 310 (metacat): no message
- 11:26 AM Revision 309 (metacat): added Pool of Connections
- DBQuery, DBReader, DBTransform, DBUtil are created on every request and use the connections from the Pool
same with D... - 11:22 AM Revision 308 (metacat): added "initialConnections", "incrementConnection" options used for the Pool of Connections
07/28/2000
- 04:15 PM Bug #49 (Resolved): need anonymous user login as default for metacat
- Right now the authentication code for metacat requires a user to have a SRB
account to even query the metacat. Inst... - 03:06 PM Bug #48 (Resolved): need an option to do xml indexing asynchronously
- We need an option to do indexing of a document asynchronously, so the user
to get response quickly - 03:05 PM Revision 307 (metacat): no message
- 02:57 PM Bug #29: Download DTDs/Schemas for client
- Implemented as part of a new DBUtil class.
- 02:53 PM Bug #47 (Resolved): doctype and docid attr are needed in xml_index table
- We need to add doctype and docid attr in xml_table to be able to search for
unique paths there by a given doctype(s)... - 02:46 PM Bug #30: get dataguide function needed by client
- We going to add doctype and docid attr to xml_index table first in order to be
able to retrieve the paths for a given... - 01:05 PM Revision 306 (metacat): no message
- 12:00 PM Revision 305 (metacat): changed marine line
- 12:00 PM Revision 304 (metacat): no message
- 11:30 AM Revision 303 (metacat): changed build documentation
- 10:41 AM Bug #46 (Resolved): metacat insert fails on some documents
- The metacat insertion process using the MetaCatServlet Load document function
fails sometimes with certain documents...
07/27/2000
- 04:12 PM Revision 302 (metacat): Added "getdoctypes" and "getdataguide" action handlers
- 04:08 PM Revision 301 (metacat): utility class for reading various of data from db
- 03:05 PM Revision 300 (metacat): added MARINE installation instructions
- 10:14 AM Revision 299 (metacat): Copies to replace corrupted class files
- 09:24 AM Bug #29: Download DTDs/Schemas for client
- Assigned to Jivka Bojilova
- 09:18 AM Bug #23: creating shared pool of connections in metacat servlet
- assigned to Jivka Bojilova
- 09:02 AM Bug #30: get dataguide function needed by client
- assigned to Jivka Bojilova
07/26/2000
- 04:12 PM Bug #41 (Resolved): consolidate methods for XML output
- Create a set of utility methods for generating XML ooutput from the servlet.
This would include both normal output a... - 04:09 PM Bug #19: need exception handling mechanism
- Transfer ownership to jones
- 03:26 PM Revision 298 (metacat): no message
- 01:48 PM Revision 297 (metacat): Added "Login Client" action for login from the Desktop Client
- 01:40 PM Revision 296 (metacat): no message
- 08:28 AM Revision 295 (metacat): Added marine files to metacat package
07/25/2000
- 01:49 PM Bug #40 (Resolved): Search Refinement Capability
- There is a need to consider the ability to refine a search, perhaps by sending a
list of previously found documents ...
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