Metacat

10/30/2007

06:03 PM Revision 3544 (metacat): Flow chat of query process

Jing Tao

05:55 PM Revision 3543 (metacat): Change the debug level for Metacat initialization message.

Jing Tao

08:57 AM Revision 3542 (metacat): add ability to retrieve response data using datamanager lib (note that this requires both the datamanager.jar and firstMetacatIntegration.jar from /eml and /first modules respectively...)

yes, this is more ajax...and still mostly Proof Of Concept-ish ben leinfelder

08:47 AM Revision 3541 (metacat): organize css references

ben leinfelder

10/29/2007

03:09 PM Revision 3540 (metacat): Converted some java 1.5 code to java 1.4 code. Removed usages of "String.contains()", "Node.getTextContent()" and "Node.setTextContent.

barteau

03:09 PM Revision 3539 (metacat): Converted some java 1.5 code to java 1.4 code. Removed usages of "String.contains()", "Node.getTextContent()" and "Node.setTextContent.

Wrote two new methods: 1) getTextContent, and 2) setTextContent, to emulate the org.w3c.dom implementation that ships... barteau

10/26/2007

01:12 PM Revision 3538 (metacat): Fixed some bugs.

barteau

01:02 PM Revision 3537 (metacat): Removed user-specific config settings.

barteau

01:00 PM Revision 3536 (metacat): Added a couple of configurable constants for host and context. Added JDoc comments.

barteau

12:51 PM Revision 3535 (metacat): JUnit tests for ClientViewHelper. Includes tests for logging in, logging out, downloading a single data file, and downloading a package zip file.

barteau

10/25/2007

08:22 PM Revision 3534 (metacat): less emphasis on emphasis class (reduced font size)

ben leinfelder

08:22 PM Revision 3533 (metacat): included assessmentId in search results.

TODO: search for both assessment and question doctypes in same query and have the result page display them intelligen... ben leinfelder

08:18 PM Revision 3532 (metacat): organize the bulk of the stylesheets in their own xsl directory.

note that these xsl files are being maintained in the "first" cvs module and should be copied from there. ben leinfelder

08:16 PM Revision 3531 (metacat): get the ajax-specific first skins organized with some better naming.

these essentially provide a pointer to custom resultset style sheets so that we can just use Ajax.Updater from protot... ben leinfelder

05:01 PM Revision 3530 (metacat): Seperated web API code, from plain java code, by creating seperate constructors and handling Http stuff in just two methods: "clientRequest" and "handleDownloadResponse".

Results in using HttpServlet code in an isolated/thin layer, making it easier to test and reuse all other methods. barteau

10/24/2007

05:23 PM Bug #2986: No need for restart tomcat after modifying metacat.properties

My thought is - adding a static variable - propertiesLastModifyTime in MetacatUtil class. This variable will store th... Jing Tao

03:33 PM Bug #2986 (New): No need for restart tomcat after modifying metacat.properties

In Metacat, if user modified metacat.properties, the modification will be effect after restarting tomcat. This proces... Jing Tao

12:11 PM Revision 3529 (metacat): add very minimal skin for transforming ajax search resultset for 'first' skin

ben leinfelder

12:10 PM Revision 3528 (metacat): add latest stable prototype (ajax) release

ben leinfelder

10:05 AM Revision 3527 (metacat): use updated edml schema to get correct element/attribute for assessment

ben leinfelder

09:27 AM Revision 3526 (metacat): use updated edml schema to get correct element/attribute for assessment

ben leinfelder

10/23/2007

04:18 PM Revision 3525 (metacat): Fixed a bug that Option wasn't initialized.

Jing Tao

04:18 PM Revision 3524 (metacat): In test target, add copy command (copy metacat.properties to build dir).

Jing Tao

08:56 AM Revision 3523 (metacat): some hints about installing new shape files and/or adjusting styles etc.

ben leinfelder

08:53 AM Revision 3522 (metacat): switch to updated sanparks boundaries file

ben leinfelder

08:52 AM Revision 3521 (metacat): replace older sanparks boundaries shapefile with updated version (includes mokala)

ben leinfelder

10/17/2007

07:18 PM Revision 3520 (metacat): Add installation instruction for enabling earthgrid.

Jing Tao

04:05 PM Bug #2983: Update PostgreSQL from 7.4 to 8.2 in knb.msi

Here is my propose for the updating by rpms.
1. Download packages :
postgresql-8.2.5-1PGDG.rhel4.i686.rpm
postgresql... Jing Tao

09:51 AM Revision 3519 (metacat): Mokala is actually farther north than the garden route parks....

ben leinfelder

10/15/2007

05:52 PM Bug #2985 (Resolved): Expand public access flag to the whole ACL

Expand public access flag (from bug #2929) in MetaCatServlet.readFromMetacat, to do more than just signal public read... Chris Barteau

05:27 PM Bug #2984 (Closed): "AccessControlList.getACL" returns outdated XML structure

The "MetCatServlet.handleGetAccessControlAction" calls another method "AccessControlList.getACL". The resulting XML ... Chris Barteau

04:48 PM Revision 3518 (metacat): organize the various file action buttons

annotate table cells with classes defined in stylesheet (now they can be customized for each skin!)
make the data lab... ben leinfelder

10/12/2007

04:02 PM Revision 3517 (metacat): Added new functionality for action="Set Access". Includes methods handleChangeAccess, setPublicAccess and getNodeTextStack. Also, cleaned up some code as a result.

barteau

03:57 PM Revision 3516 (metacat): Modified string constant "SUB_DOCS_PATH" to be static and public accessible.

barteau

03:55 PM Revision 3515 (metacat): Modified to accept (and display) parameters "publicRead" and "message". Modifications to allow users to change public access to package.

barteau

03:48 PM Revision 3514 (metacat): Added param to indicate if public has read access or not, in the method "readFromMetacat". It only does this if reading a metadata document, for a skin-format,

and the user is not public. This is useful to the skin's metadata display/editing form, for indicating public access... barteau

10/11/2007

05:05 PM Bug #2983: Update PostgreSQL from 7.4 to 8.2 in knb.msi

Consider auto update, RPM upgrade is better chioce. No matter rpm or source instllation, we have to shutdown metacat ... Jing Tao

04:42 PM Bug #2983: Update PostgreSQL from 7.4 to 8.2 in knb.msi

Another issue is about the install dir and the database data dir. The space
needed to install postgresql is about 30 ... Jing Tao

03:07 PM Bug #2983: Update PostgreSQL from 7.4 to 8.2 in knb.msi

The disadvantage of installing pg8 from source code is that security patches will not be automatically applied. So, ... Matt Jones

02:38 PM Bug #2983: Update PostgreSQL from 7.4 to 8.2 in knb.msi

Here is the time issue:
Since we can install postgresql 8 while 7 is running, installation time is not a big issue. H... Jing Tao

02:12 PM Bug #2983: Update PostgreSQL from 7.4 to 8.2 in knb.msi

In my test machine, I did succesfully installed 8 while 7 was running. In order to do so, we need install 8 from sour... Jing Tao

02:00 PM Bug #2983 (Resolved): Update PostgreSQL from 7.4 to 8.2 in knb.msi

Here is the email from matt:
Jing,
I see no problem, so go ahead. However, you should be sure to absolutely mini... Jing Tao

04:37 PM Revision 3513 (metacat): Some minor code cleanup.

barteau

03:58 PM Revision 3512 (metacat): Fixed bug where the Permission Order was always being set to 'allowFirst'.

It was comparing against the constant AccessControlInterface.DENYFIRST with the variable name surrounded by quotes. ... barteau

07:16 AM Revision 3511 (metacat): use garden route park boundary box coordinates for the four "missing" areas (knysna, tsit, mokala, wilderness)

ben leinfelder

10/09/2007

06:15 PM Revision 3510 (metacat): initial skin draft for FIRST project as metacat deployment.

will require [much] more customization to be fully useful for project, but this is a start. ben leinfelder

09:34 AM Revision 3509 (metacat): sych left nav list and map locations with the sanparks.org "Parks A-Z" listing.

still missing spatial data for:
Knysna National Lake Area
Mokala National Park
Tsitsikamma National Park
Wilderness N... ben leinfelder

10/08/2007

02:08 PM Revision 3508 (metacat): fix IE compatibility issue with iframe content documents

ben leinfelder

11:44 AM Revision 3507 (metacat): Modified a sql command from "like" to "=". It dramatically improves the peformance of build index.

Jing Tao

10/04/2007

05:20 PM Bug #2805: Metacat Performance: updates from Morpho of data packages are taking longer than five minutes

I searched the internet and found somebody said:
==Almost always, if delete is slow when selecting the same rows is ... Jing Tao

03:57 PM Revision 3506 (metacat): Add two indexes to improve delete and update speed.

Jing Tao

03:56 PM Revision 3505 (metacat): Add two indexes to improve delete and upgrade performance.

Jing Tao

03:55 PM Revision 3504 (metacat): Add two indexes to improve deleting and update speed.

Jing Tao

03:54 PM Revision 3503 (metacat): Add two indexes to improve peformance of deleting and update

Jing Tao

03:42 PM Revision 3502 (metacat): Grant the public read access to the data files, if it was done for the metadata file. Also cleaned-up some debug statements.

barteau

03:28 PM Revision 3501 (metacat): Find out if the document is a Member of an EML package, and if that's not the case, than skip the test to see if access is set through EML metadata.

barteau

01:23 PM Revision 3500 (metacat): move the navstrip background to the iframe class so that it extends when displaying longer pages (eml docs, say)

ben leinfelder

10/03/2007

06:00 PM Revision 3499 (metacat): crop to 112 height - removes bottom light green line

ben leinfelder

05:59 PM Revision 3498 (metacat): make css work in IE. found an errant quotation mark that was throwing IE off and making super-ugly pages.

then it was smoothing out the details one by one... ben leinfelder

05:58 PM Revision 3497 (metacat): move

ben leinfelder

05:57 PM Revision 3496 (metacat): explicitly set white background for main content.

ben leinfelder

05:57 PM Revision 3495 (metacat): add filler for title element so that rendering in IE is not compromised.

use regtext class for paragraph ben leinfelder

02:25 PM Revision 3494 (metacat): crop to 112 height - removes bottom light green line

ben leinfelder

01:29 PM Revision 3493 (metacat): added national parks locations from shapefile

(thank you shaun+postgis) ben leinfelder

10:01 AM Revision 3492 (metacat): use "within" rather than "intersects" as the spatial search criteria for dataset location.

(see bugzilla #2972) ben leinfelder

09:10 AM Revision 3491 (metacat): rearrange login validation javascript so that it actually works

ben leinfelder

08:50 AM Revision 3490 (metacat): added commented out reference to the all-in-one sanparks.xsl (resultset, eml, fgdc handling). this is for use with the no-iframe skin approach

ben leinfelder

08:46 AM Revision 3489 (metacat): keep the commented out lines incase we want to switch to no-iframes skin

ben leinfelder

08:44 AM Revision 3488 (metacat): changes used when experimenting with the no-iframe method of skinning (does not conflict with the previous method if skinning that uses iframes)

ben leinfelder

08:42 AM Revision 3487 (metacat): remove unused page import

ben leinfelder