Metacat

07/20/2001

09:12 PM Revision 803 (metacat): changed accessdoctype=-//NCEAS//eml-access-2.0//EN

b' AccessControlList is changed to use eml-access-2.0.dtd already bojilova

09:03 PM Revision 802 (metacat): added support for multiple group membership

bojilova

03:19 PM Revision 801 (metacat): Changed the constructors so that the nodeRecordList is automatically

retrieved by the DocumentImpl(Connection,String) constructor. this
restores its earlier behavior, but the implementa... Matt Jones

11:23 AM Revision 800 (metacat): Added fix to DocumentImpl that showed problems when the DocumentImpl(conn)

constructor was called. Now there is a new constructor:
DocumentImpl(Connection, String, boolean)
where the boolea... Matt Jones

07/19/2001

03:03 AM Bug #191: Override protocol handling for http URLs

And also...
Because "multipart/form-data" is the standard format produced by web browsers
when doing a "file upload"... Matt Jones

02:50 AM Bug #191: Override protocol handling for http URLs

There are concomitant changes in Morpho to produce these types of file uploads.
Morpho now uses the HTTPClient librar... Matt Jones

02:58 AM Bug #185: replication security hole

Reassigned to bojilova. Matt Jones

02:57 AM Bug #240: data file upload does not allow the client to specify an id

Fixed. ID can now be specified (actually, it MUST be) using the new http based
file upload feature that was implement... Matt Jones

02:55 AM Bug #181: possible security risks in data file upload

Obsoleted because the socket system is no longer used, as it was replaced by
"multipart/form-data" encoded data trans... Matt Jones

02:52 AM Bug #194: manage files by accession# on file system

Done. Details are provided under the description of bug 191. Could still be
improved by abstracting away the storag... Matt Jones

02:20 AM Revision 799 (metacat): Completely removed the socket-server feature that used to provide

file upload. It is now replaced by multipart/form-data over http. Matt Jones

01:52 AM Revision 798 (metacat): Modified Metacat to support large data file uploads. This is accomplished

by supporting a new content type for data sent to metacat:
multipart/form-data
which allows multiple files to be se... Matt Jones

07/17/2001

07:58 PM Revision 797 (metacat): Simplified ReplicationHandler:

It is run now in the same thread started from DBSAXHandler;
thus the same connection opened in that thread is used,
i... bojilova

03:09 PM Bug #199: changes in Access Control mechanism

Jivka: looks like a good plan. Here's a few notes about the points you make...
1. Using a real group for "public" h... Matt Jones

11:10 AM Bug #26: need to add NOT operator to pathquery.dtd

DONE
Included new terms in pathquery.dtd for searchmode:
equals (former "matches-exactly")
isnot-equal
less-than
grea... Jivka Bojilova

11:07 AM Bug #189: add <, >, and numeric = operators to pathquery language

DONE
Included new terms in pathquery.dtd for searchmode:
equals (former "matches-exactly")
isnot-equal
less-than
grea... Jivka Bojilova

09:59 AM Revision 796 (metacat): tests made on Oracle and SQL Server.

bojilova

09:20 AM Revision 795 (metacat): support for the new terms included in pathquery.dtd

bojilova

09:19 AM Revision 794 (metacat): included new terms for searchmode:

equals (former matches-exactly)
isnot-equal
less-than
greater-than
less-than-equals
greater-than-equals bojilova

07/16/2001

01:30 PM Bug #248: id finder needed for metacat

DONE Jivka Bojilova

01:27 PM Bug #248: id finder needed for metacat

DONE
Included utility function about gettig the latest docid for a user:
DBUtil.getLastDocid(username).
Required Meta... Jivka Bojilova

12:32 PM Revision 793 (metacat): http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248

Included utility function about gettig the latest docid for a user:
DBUtil.getLastDocid(username).
Metacat parameters... bojilova

07/13/2001

05:27 PM Bug #181: possible security risks in data file upload

This should not be a problem if socket has a reasonable timeout value set -
Dan Higgins Dan Higgins

03:44 PM Bug #187: test metacat on Windows NT/2000

DONE
Tested on Windows NT/2000 with SQL Server 2000. It works really well.
SQL Server shows better performance than O... Jivka Bojilova

03:38 PM Bug #183: Port metacat to PostgresSQL and other databases

DONE Jivka Bojilova

03:35 PM Bug #235: ssl support for metacat (https)

DONE Jivka Bojilova

03:35 PM Bug #138: use LDAP as optional directory for authentication

DONE Jivka Bojilova

01:08 PM Bug #247: metacat inserts ids into some files

FIXED Jivka Bojilova

12:17 PM Revision 792 (metacat): don't need to override the old meta_file_id tags with docid without rev

since Morpho inserts docids before sending the docs to Metacat bojilova

07/12/2001

10:29 AM Bug #40: Search Refinement Capability

Can now revise a search in the Query dialog and resubmit it. Matt Jones

07/10/2001

04:40 PM Bug #248 (Resolved): id finder needed for metacat

Metacat needs a utility function so that morpho can query it and find the last
id used by a specific user. right n... Chad Berkley

03:55 PM Bug #247 (Resolved): metacat inserts ids into some files

Metacat sometimes inserts ids into files with the old "meta_file_id" tags. it
inserts them incorrectly because it d... Chad Berkley

07/06/2001

01:29 PM Revision 791 (metacat): added the new software module

berkley

11:58 AM Revision 790 (metacat): added constructor in DocumentImpl for use in DBQuery.findDocuments();

this new constructor is used with getDocumentInfo() to get the doc info only;
because the other constructor builds th... bojilova

11:43 AM Revision 789 (metacat): updated script with new eml20 dtds

berkley

07/05/2001

09:38 AM Revision 788 (metacat): fixed bug - hardcoded LDAP URL

bojilova

07/02/2001

04:34 PM Bug #242: delete does not work properly when a file has relations

FIXED Jivka Bojilova

03:06 PM Revision 787 (metacat): made use of the new property for ldaps url;

it is used for secure connection to LDAP server listening on second port 636 by default with SSL sockets;
it is used ... bojilova

02:57 PM Revision 786 (metacat): new property for ldaps:// url for LDAP connection over SSL;

it is set on second port - by default 636;
for plain LDAP communications the default port 389 is used. bojilova

11:24 AM Revision 785 (metacat): moved delete from xml_relation before delete from xml_documents

because of the parent-child relation b/w these 2 tables bojilova

06/29/2001

06:20 PM Bug #138: use LDAP as optional directory for authentication

Installed OpenLDAPv2.0.11 (support for LDAPv3) with TLS/SSL support on dev.
Here is the steps to do:
1. Install Open... Jivka Bojilova