Metacat

08/08/2001

05:07 PM Revision 820 (metacat): fixed an error of NullPointerException

bojilova

12:56 PM Revision 819 (metacat): - when the Access file goes first before the Package file (eml-dataset-2.0)

relations are not available in xml_relation, thus updated the code
to check and run ACL also after the Package file i... bojilova

08/02/2001

10:29 AM Revision 818 (metacat): fixed error with out of cursors error because pstmts were not getting closed in DBQuery

berkley

07/31/2001

11:30 PM Revision 816 (metacat): Updated build file to resotre changes that were lost when version

1.54 was committed. Matt Jones

07:34 PM Revision 815 (metacat): look for relationship "isRelatedTo" b' that is the word that is used in the triples

bojilova

07:17 PM Revision 814 (metacat): Fixed returndoctype param.

Matt Jones

06:59 PM Revision 813 (metacat): Updated stylesheet to use new package returndoc type for searches

(eml-dataset-2.0). Matt Jones

03:02 PM Revision 812 (metacat): updated with the new eml modules

bojilova

02:14 PM Revision 811 (metacat): changed web-base-url to http://knb.ecoinformatics.org

bojilova

07/25/2001

09:01 AM Revision 810 (metacat): made ant copy the dtds

berkley

09:00 AM Revision 809 (metacat): added new dtds

berkley

08:57 AM Revision 808 (metacat): dtds that have entities removed for morpho/metacat compatibility

berkley

07/23/2001

11:27 AM Revision 807 (metacat): Clean up after building distribution.

Matt Jones

11:16 AM Bug #41: consolidate methods for XML output

Changed milestone for several bugs. Some of these we should consider marking
INVALID or WONTFIX. Matt Jones

11:16 AM Bug #148: node-level granularity for ACLs

Changed milestone for several bugs. Some of these we should consider marking
INVALID or WONTFIX. Matt Jones

11:16 AM Bug #93: allow dynamic addition of actions

Changed milestone for several bugs. Some of these we should consider marking
INVALID or WONTFIX. Matt Jones

11:16 AM Bug #151: need doctype equivalence specification

Changed milestone for several bugs. Some of these we should consider marking
INVALID or WONTFIX. Matt Jones

11:16 AM Bug #129: Metacat Performance: paged Query Returns

Changed milestone for several bugs. Some of these we should consider marking
INVALID or WONTFIX. Matt Jones

11:16 AM Bug #117: need new HTML interface allowing boolean search

Changed milestone for several bugs. Some of these we should consider marking
INVALID or WONTFIX. Matt Jones

11:15 AM Revision 806 (metacat): Updated build.xml with new targets to create metacat distributions.

Run "ant dist" to create a non-source distribution and "ant distsrc"
to create a source distribution. Best if this i... Matt Jones

11:04 AM Bug #199: changes in Access Control mechanism

Leave point 5. for Release1.0. Anything else is DONE. Jivka Bojilova

10:24 AM Revision 805 (metacat): Updated README file for the beta2 release. Added list of known issues,

which will need to be edited for the final release. Matt Jones

09:28 AM Revision 804 (metacat): fixed the compilation bug about the change of group parameter in DocumentImpl.write()

bojilova

09:07 AM Bug #258 (Resolved): upgrade to xerces 1.4.1 and test metacat

Need to upgrade our version of the Xerces jar file to 1.4.1 in order to get the
bug fixes and advanced schema suppor... Matt Jones

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