Metacat

11/25/2008

04:38 PM Bug #3690 (Resolved): Errors in {qformat}.properties.metadata.xml prevent successful startup

the lter and ltss skins had some <config> elements commented out when they were committed today - this caused an erro... ben leinfelder

11/24/2008

04:01 PM Bug #3682: ESA skin suffers from security issues

Tested locally against ESA database, worked with Jing to fix SQL to work with Postgres 7.4 and applied to server. Shaun Walbridge

09:18 AM Bug #3689 (Resolved): bad username in admin login throws stack trace

If the user name is not formatted correctly when logging in via the AuthLDAP class, an exception is throw to the brow... Michael Daigle

08:22 AM Bug #3464: Replicate access rules in replication

Mike has run through testing scenarios for ACL replication with no hiccups.
Closing this bug. ben leinfelder

11/21/2008

05:32 PM Bug #3687: Update ESA skin to work with 1.9 paths instead of hard coded values

Fixed in r4613 Shaun Walbridge

04:27 PM Bug #3687 (Resolved): Update ESA skin to work with 1.9 paths instead of hard coded values

The review_behaviors.js script currently relies on relative paths, and should be changed to use the metacatUrl value,... Shaun Walbridge

11:20 AM Bug #3682: ESA skin suffers from security issues

register-dataset.cgi has been fixed, waiting on feedback from other Metacatalysts before applying the fix to existing... Shaun Walbridge

10:58 AM Bug #3685: Tag utilities module and have metacat check out that tag

Added the tag to the utilities checkout in build.xml Michael Daigle

10:43 AM Bug #3685: Tag utilities module and have metacat check out that tag

Tag the current cvs head as tag UTILITIES_1_0_0 Jing Tao

10:14 AM Bug #3685 (Resolved): Tag utilities module and have metacat check out that tag

Right now, metacat checks out the utilities head code. We need to tag the code so metacat (and other products) can g... Michael Daigle

10:44 AM Bug #3684: Default skin is getting set in two places in configuration

Closing per earlier comment Michael Daigle

10:35 AM Bug #3684: Default skin is getting set in two places in configuration

Removed the default style configuration from global properties and activated it in skins properties. Michael Daigle

09:32 AM Bug #3684 (Resolved): Default skin is getting set in two places in configuration

There is an option to set the default skin in the skins properties and in the global properties. It looks like the s... Michael Daigle

10:36 AM Bug #3686 (Resolved): Skins configuration files need to be secured

Skins contain property files which contain sensitive information that shouldn't be exposed publicly. Both Perl and T... Shaun Walbridge

11/20/2008

11:52 AM Bug #3382: Update documentation for all 1.9 changes

Updated the metacat servlet api documentation both in user docs and in the MetacatServlet comments. Michael Daigle

11/19/2008

04:51 PM Bug #3680: Allow for different authentication services in metacat configuration

Changed the configuration authentication to use the generic AuthSession. Added the auth class to the configuration u... Michael Daigle

10:27 AM Bug #3680: Allow for different authentication services in metacat configuration

Shouldn't the configuration utility be using the AuthInterface interface for all of its calls? That would help abstr... Matt Jones

10:13 AM Bug #3680 (Resolved): Allow for different authentication services in metacat configuration

Right now, the metacat configuration utility authenticates against ldap. It should allow for the usage of any authen... Michael Daigle

04:01 PM Bug #3682 (Resolved): ESA skin suffers from security issues

The model used by the ESA skin exposes data which should always be private. This needs to be fixed in two ways:
-... Shaun Walbridge

11:32 AM Bug #3679: ESA skin needs to use EML 2.1.0

This may take some time: the ESA skin currently uses split() to access the XML, which only works by coincidence and w... Shaun Walbridge

08:33 AM Bug #3679 (Resolved): ESA skin needs to use EML 2.1.0

Within the registry, the ESA skin has a few special actions to include the moderation data necessary for the ESA work... Shaun Walbridge

11/18/2008

04:32 PM Bug #3380: Create LSID server installation

Added authority.war to binary distribution. Added installation instructions to documentation. Michael Daigle

02:30 PM Bug #3382: Update documentation for all 1.9 changes

Created war file install instructions. Michael Daigle

02:29 PM Bug #3670: Kepler data download throws exception

Jing is taking care of this Michael Daigle

11:25 AM Bug #3670: Kepler data download throws exception

The xml_queryresult table needs to be cleared in the kepler database. A bad query has been cached and keeps returnin... Michael Daigle

11:35 AM Bug #3588: Update acknowlegements in metacat readme

Acknowlegements were already up to date Michael Daigle

11/13/2008

03:27 PM Bug #3654: Metacat failed to detect a db with version 1.8

Changed DBAdmin to look at upper cases tablename for oracle metadata and lower case table for postgres metadata Michael Daigle

10:55 AM Bug #3670 (Resolved): Kepler data download throws exception

When trying to view data for kepler in 1.8.1, the system throws the following exception:
type Exception report
... Michael Daigle

11/12/2008

05:26 PM Bug #3654 (Resolved): Metacat failed to detect a db with version 1.8

I tried to install a new metacat with a imported postgresql db. The db file came from kepler db in knb machine. The f... Jing Tao

11/10/2008

04:31 PM Bug #3616: Validate the ldap administrator field.

Added javascript validation to make sure all fields are populated on ldap config screen.
Added validation in the adm... Michael Daigle

08:25 AM Bug #3616 (Resolved): Validate the ldap administrator field.

Make sure the ldap administrator field is not empty and contains a valid user during configuration. Michael Daigle

03:27 PM Bug #3619 (New): Convert eml beta4 and beta6 documents to eml 210 in knb production server

We still have some old eml beta4 and beta6 documents at knb production server:
Here is the search result on 11/10/20... Jing Tao

12:47 PM Bug #3319: Edit feature doesn't work on documents with uneditable fields

When parsing existing EML documents, we need to determine if they're 2.0.* documents or 2.1.0; in the former case, fi... Shaun Walbridge

11:05 AM Bug #3618: Metacat "binary distribution" does not include EcoGrid

added install-ecogrid dependency in the build for "distbin"
ben leinfelder

10:45 AM Bug #3618 (Resolved): Metacat "binary distribution" does not include EcoGrid

I built a tar.gz using the "distbin" ant target, deployed the contained knb.war file, and later realized that there w... ben leinfelder

11/06/2008

11:43 AM Bug #3496: The registry should generate EML 2.1.0 documents

Changes checked in to r4517 resolve this bug, the registry now creates valid EML 2.1.0 documents with the access elem... Shaun Walbridge

11/05/2008

04:08 PM Bug #3527: getprincipals action returns invalid XML document

Chris and I tried encoding="UTF-8" and it didn't work. Both firefox and chris's matlab code didn't this encoding.
So ... Jing Tao

11/04/2008

04:09 PM Bug #2826: add ability for search engines to index metacat documents

Changed the sql for the sitemap generation to only pull documents that are publically readable.
Added some file inse... Michael Daigle

01:41 PM Bug #3592: Update sitemap generation and registration

From Matt:
Google sitemaps support the idea of a Sitemap_index.xml that lists all of your sitemaps. We should proba... Michael Daigle

11:44 AM Bug #3592 (New): Update sitemap generation and registration

Update web search sitemap functionality so that:
-- the sitemap generation is done at a scheduled time.
-- the si... Michael Daigle