On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:23:59PM -0400, Brian J. France wrote: > On Oct 12, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Joe Orton wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:41:32PM -0000, Graham Leggett wrote: >>> --- httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/dav/main/mod_dav.h (original) >>> +++ httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/dav/main/mod_dav.h Fri Oct 9 21:41:31 >>> + >>> + /* return request record */ >>> + request_rec * (*get_request_rec)(const dav_resource *resource); >>> + >>> + /* return path */ >>> + const char * (*get_pathname)(const dav_resource *resource); >>> }; >>> >> >> What is a "pathname" in this context? A URI path? A filesystem path? >> If the latter, what is get_pathname supposed to do for a non-fs-backed >> repository provider? > > > That I don't know, it could use bogus paths. I haven't gone down the > path of creating a new mod_dav_fs module, so I don't know exactly how it > would work.
Well, there needs to be some API contract specified so that repos backends can implement it. So: why does the resource abstraction need to be extended to return the filesystem path? What will mod_dav use it for? Regards, Joe
