Upload Absolute Path with Custom UserPathBuilder Impl

This one is really funny. Tweak as much as you want, it remains PHP Think about it.

Hence my post, I wasnt sure how the upload was taking place, but trying anything I could.

So, fair enough, and I will get and build the 2.5 snapshot. Once I do that, where _is_ the correct place for configuring the absolute file path for uploads?

I have this in fckeditor.properties

connector.userFilesPath=/opt/hosting/userfiles

What should my custom UserPathBuilder return? All or part of the path?


Thanks!

Everything at http://java.fckeditor.net references 2.4.1. Where is the 2.5 documentation?

I am browsing the SVN repository now and there are no tags or branches denoting version 2.5 SNAPSHOT? Is 2.5 the trunk?

Thank you.

Michael,

Consider for a moment that no one else uses tagging and branching like you do. Not that either is wrong or right, but only different.

I have only one question at this time...

Where is the 2.5 documentation?

Thanks.

I am very familiar with Maven2. I dont disagree that other people use SVN like you do. At my shop, we have mutiple releases developed in parallel to one another. Since you cant develop 2 new releases simulaneously in trunk, we create 2 branches for the new development, and then merge them back together when they are all completed. MAny large enterprise shops do it this way. Like I said before, only different ways of accomplishing the same goal of managing and releasing quality software.

Ill go read those docs and thanks again for the assistance. I dont envy you having to answer all these questions on the support, but some of us asking do know our head from our ass.

Mike,

I have the following fckeditor.properties:

connector.userActionImpl=net.fckeditor.requestcycle.impl.UserActionImpl
connector.impl=net.fckeditor.connector.impl.LocalConnector
connector.userPathBuilderImpl=com.brightmove.ats.util.fckeditor.BrightMoveUserPathBuilder
connector.fullUrl=true
connector.secureImageUploads=true

My files are now saved in the absolute server path as denoted in this log entry:

FCKEditor User path: /opt/hosting/brightmove/userfiles/2

Where 2 is the userID...Good!

The saved file is "/opt/hosting/brightmove/userfiles/2/image/database.png"..Good!

The link to the image in FCKEditor is "/image/database.png"...Bad

I feel like we are almost there, but I am missing something stupid, and when I click on Configuration Reference from the generated site, "properties.html" is not available, so my solution might lie within that if you could point me to the availalbe config properties for 2.5.

What I need to complete what I am trying to do is have the link to the image in FCKEditor be

http://www.mydomain.com/userfiles/2/image/database.png

Can you help out with this? Thanks again!

I found the properties.html, but I still need a little help on how to use it to achieve my goal. Thanks.

I have made a lot of progress. In my development env, I am using my Custom UserPathBuilder to return both the absolute path to save the files to on the OS, and the Context relative path to return and stick in the FCKEditor control. Everything works perfectly in dev.

My last remaining issue is involving deploying this to my QA environment which is clustered and the JBoss instances sit behind the Apache Mod_jk load balancer. The "connector.php" in the request is messing up something when apache parses the URL And decides to send it to JBoss or keep it within apache's scope.

IMHO, it would be nice to have a "Java" option in the fckconfig.js, rather than having is set to PHP and assuming there is nothing between the browser and the Servlet Container that might filter the request.

var _FileBrowserLanguage   = 'php' ;   // asp | aspx | cfm | lasso | perl | php | py
var _QuickUploadLanguage   = 'php' ;   // asp | aspx | cfm | lasso | perl | php | py

Would be nice to have it like

var _FileBrowserLanguage   = 'java' ;   // asp | aspx | cfm | lasso | perl | php | py
var _QuickUploadLanguage   = 'java' ;   // asp | aspx | cfm | lasso | perl | php | py

Then figure out an extention that would correlate to the servlet mapping, say 'fckj'.

Then you could have something like this in the servlet mapping

   <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>Connector</servlet-name>
      <!-- Do not wrap this line otherwise Glassfish will fail to load this file -->
      <url-pattern>/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/*.fckj</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>

This way you could get all PHP referneces out since it is an all java solution. What do you think? I might be forced to help implement if I cant figure out how to make the load balancer send the request on to JBoss.

Also, the 2.5 docs are good. I will try to send some examples of how the UserPathBuilder is overridden and how the return values translate to what operations take place when a file is uploaded or chosen.

I made this change in the fckconfig.js and tricked apache into not trying to interpret a PHP call and the connector successfully passed through mod_jk and is being handled by the ConnectorServlet.

var _FileBrowserLanguage   = 'fckj' ;   
var _QuickUploadLanguage   = 'fckj' ; 

Thanks for the assistance.

I agree that having a httpd server that interprets PHP, and optionally passes other requests on to a Java Web Container is not common. Hopefully someone else reads this thread and saves some time.

I did read the LocalConnector javadoc and it clearly explained using it to save files to the filesystem. I think using it in conjunction with a UserPathBuilderImpl was not crystal clear, but I figured it out so it must have been clear enough, right?

Thanks again.