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OpenGroupware Coils 0.1.49rc22 Uploaded

Adam Tauno Williams — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:41:13 -0000

0.1.49rc33

*Release date: 01-April-2013 *

A documents extension and abstract values are exposes as eponymous WebDAV properties in the Coils' namespace.
A document's abstract can be set/updated via WebDAV PROPPATCH
ENHANCEMENT: Allow mimetype of getObjectPropertyAction to be set via parameter, and allow for defaults if the property does not exist.
Several additional label substitution values: INITDATE, WEEKAGO, FORTNIGHTAGO, and MONTHAGO.
New sshDeleteFiles OIE action; allows deletion of remote via via SFTP.
[AttachFS] support for update of document's by objectId. A full set of [AttachFS] examples is now available in the project wiki.
FLAGS implemented on the Omphalos representation of [Project] entities.
Omphalos [Project] representations include parentProjectName and parentProjectNumber attribues if the Project has a parent. This facilitates the create of client interfaces representing project hierarchies.
At a detail level of 1,024 Omphalos representations of a Project includes a childProjectObjectIds attribute which is an array of child project object ids.
A parent / children relation has been added to the SQLAlchemy ORM for Project entities.
System Administrators and Workflow Administrators can now delete any Route entity regardless of ownership or permissions.
Provisioning scheme for resource objects in Project 7,000 is now complete.
Wiki support for serving JavaScript resources.
Wiki now provides a CSS resource for styling, this is automatically created in Project 7,000 by the coils-fix-provision7000 tool.
Wiki Query Tables now return more than the default 150 search results.
A 'root' Wiki document is now provisioned in Project 7,0000 by the coils-fix-provision7000 tool.
Wiki supports entity relative links "." and ".." for project and folder links.
Markdown "TOC" (Table of Contents) extensions enabled in the Wiki bundle.
Support for document deletion completed in the zOGI API.
A user-agent has been defined for the WebDAV client cadaver. Includes work-around for escaped/unescaped hrefs issue.
assignment entities may now be putObject'd and deleteObject'd in the zOGI API
team::delete Logic command now supports deletion by objectId. Only system administrators may delete teams.
Team entitues may now be created via zOGI putObject.
DELETE support implemented in [AttachFS]
Implementation of the HTTP redirector protocol at /redirect or /r. Redirector map is provisioned in Project 7,0000 by coils-fix-provision7000.
Document project id, company id, and folder id are now exposed as WebDAV properties.
New OIE actions setObjectPropertyAction and getObjectPropertyAction.
The object property "{http://www.opengroupware.us/oie}disableStateVersioning" on an OIE process will disable state versioning for that process. This discards some, rarely useful, auditing information in exchange for a reductuion in I/O.
BUGFIX in OIE xPathAction relating to XML having no support for default namespaces in XPath statements.
OIE Processes now inherit copies of a Route's object properties upon creation.
BUGFIX in OIE ldapSearchAction which could cause large LDAP search results to be incorrected paged, and thus truncated.
BUGFIX in coils-fix-clean-message-folder tool where the tool failed on some versions of Python.
BUGFIX when using a divisor to read a floating-point value voa SimpleFixedFieldFormat
[SMTP listener](SMTPListener] can now deliver content to [Project] folders.
OIE xlsToXmlAction now renders all element names in lower case.

OpenGroupware Coils 0.1.49rc27 Uploaded to SF & PyPI

Adam Tauno Williams — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:42:09 -0000

A new package for OpenGroupware Coils (0.1.49rc27) has been uploaded to SourceForge and PyPI.

Changes

WebDAV support for Location header disabled for GNOME's Evolution. This corrects issues with updating contacts.
Important fix regarding XSLT transforms and Unicode code-pages.
Omphalos XML rendering will generate an administrative notice if an entity cannot be translated to the output code page.
Actions can now declare the Unicode code-page of their results.
BUGFIX in document access manager for dealing with a NULL permissions string.
New listCompaniesAction OIE renders an XML document of all enterprises in a specified security context and their related contacts; user must possess the requested security context and have the Data Manager role (administrators may perform the operation for any security context). OIE action performs the document generation using a generator on the database connection to minize resource utilization.
New OGO_DATA_MANAGER_ROLE role. This role allows some operations, such as server-wide sync or bulk data import/export to be restricted to a subset of users, in addition to object permissions. Users belonging to the team which is named by the OGoDataManagersTeam server default will posess this role.
BUGFIX missing foreign key between document and document versions corrected in the SQLAlchemy data model. This resulted in a significant performance improvement for some document operations.

OpenGroupware Coils 0.1.49rc25 Uploaded to PyPI & SF

Adam Tauno Williams — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:48:20 -0000

Changes

Support for specification of target tableName in sqlInsertAction via parameter which overrides tableName provided in the ResultSet element of the input message. Label substitution support for this value.
Rendering of records read via a SimpleFixedFieldFormat to StandardXML is now performed using ElementFlow.
BUGFIX: BLOBManager now correctly sets the max core size of scratch files again.
Archived tasks are not included by default in the _TASK keyof the Omphalos representation of a project. Set the server default "OmphalosIncludeArchivedProjectTasks" to "YES" to revert to the previous behavior of including archived tasks.
Documents can now be uploaded using AttachFS via a Task.
Support for INBOXing documents uploaded to Projects via a related entity has been implemented.
BUGFIX: Content-Length header of a 201 response from AttachFS is always zero.
Every task created is now assigned a UID if the client did not provide one.
Added get_anchor API call to zOGI; this allows retrieval of collection CTAG values via zOGI.
BUGFIX: The ".ctag" REST key on a Teams collection was not available.
The coils-fix-nocomplete-tasks tool now includes archived tasks.

Authentication Documentation

Adam Tauno Williams — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:23:04 -0000

A wiki page has been created for documenting the configuration of authentication with OpenGroupware Coils.

Development Update, 2013-02-12

Adam Tauno Williams — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:39:36 -0000

Some new tickets have been added to the dangling-fruit, aka "these should be
easy", list

Egg version has been bumped to 0.1.49rc24

Changes have been merged into default branch

AttachFS allows put'ing a document to a Task entity.

Where OGo#13871405 is a Task this will create/update the file named 
"cert.pem" in the root folder of the project this task is assigned
to. It will also, automatically, generate an object link from the
task to this new or updated file.

curl -u adam -T cacert.pem \
  "http://coils.example.com/attachfs/13871405/cacert.pem?mode=file"

If the Task is not assigned to a project an exception will be raised.
For storing arbitrary content on arbitrary tasks use attachment mode.

AttachFS allows put'int a document to a Project entity. This performs the same operation as if the document was PUT to the root folder of the Project.
Upon creation or update of a document (file mode) AttachFS no longer specifies the Content-Length of the object; Content-Length is not specified. Inclusion of Content-Length in the 201 response confused some proxy servers resulting in a long delay until connection timeout. Then Coils got blamed for being "slow".
When a Task is created via Logic a GUID is generated if one was not specified by the client. Generally a UID (GUID) would be assigned to the task when created by a GroupDAV/CardDAV client. Having one in advance eases synchronization by providing a better anchor for the client to use in its cache.
- The new coils-fix-no-guid tool (script) will generate GUIDs/UIDs forTask and Contact entities in the database that do not have a UID value.
A new zOGI method getAnchor (available via XML-RPC currently) has been created that allows a client to check syncronization anchors in a 'normal' way. This is similar to how a WebDAV client would use the "ctag" attribue of a collection. A BLOG post about this new methd will be posted soon.
Operation of the ".ctags" special key on the /dav/Tasks collection has been fixed.
The coils-fix-no-complete-tasks tool (script) now examines tasks in an archived state as well as those just done/rejected.
The XLS reader format now supports "discardMalformedRecords". This format has received an long overdue overhaul. It now generates its output using ElementFlow.
The new iconvAction OIE actuib allows messages (assumed to be of some text-like content) to be translated between specified encodings.
A new CoilsDateFormatException has been introduced and is raised in the case of a date string that cannot be parsed by the server. This makes the cause of a problem more evident to the client/user.
A user-agent description has been created for the WDFS WebDAV client.

Release 0.1.49rc19

Adam Tauno Williams — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:35:24 -0000

Whats new

The cursor factory method OIE SQL connection objects now accepts parameters and passed them on to the underlying DBAPI driver.
AttachFS does not reveal the type of an inaccessible entity if that entity is requested by id.
New SSHGetFilesIntoZipFileAction OIE action that requests a list of files from a host via SFTP and stashes those files into a ZIP archive.
New AppendToZIPFileAction OIE action that stashes a message as a file into a ZIP archive.
New messageToDocumentAction OIE action which stores the contents of a workflow message into a project document.
New coils-fix-unuided-contacts tool to generate CardDAV UID values for any Contant entity without a UID.
New coils-fix-clean-process tool which cleans up any unreferenced process markup from the process folder.
New coils-fix-clean-shelve-folder which cleans up any unreferenced shelves from the shelve folder.
Logic command process::get can retrieve processes by their GUID identity.
Table and footnote extensions enabled in the Wiki protocol bundle.
A ".ps" request to the /dav/Workflow folder now presents cancelled processes (status=X) with a state of "cancelled". [tickets:#107]
Logic command account::new supports setting a template user id and enforces requirement for a login string.

Release 0.1.49rc18

Adam Tauno Williams — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:39:11 -0000

Release date: 07-January-2013

Tweak to the binding of vCard TEL elements to telephone types
Return a 404 (No Such Path) rather than a 500 (Generic) response for a request to AttachFS for unavailable content.

Release 0.1.49rc17

Adam Tauno Williams — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:38:40 -0000

Release date: 02-January-2013

Significant performance improvement in authenticator.
Wiki protocol bundle is now nearly complete
Pages are correctly encapsulated in a HTML body / DOCTYPE.
Wiki extensions use an entity cache.
"project_id" added to Task entity keymap
Added the coils-fix-delete-emtpy-enterprise-projects tool.
Added the coils-fix-clean-message-folder tool.
coils-dependency-check now checks for the availability of markdown and argparse modules

Project Roadmap Page

Adam Tauno Williams — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:17:38 -0000

A [new page](RoadMap) has been added to the developer wiki for creating the project [roadmap](RoadMap).

Client List Page

Adam Tauno Williams — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:16:08 -0000

Ahead of preparing for the 0.1.50 release a wiki page is under development for recording [clients](Clients) that been testes, need to be tested, known client bugs, etc... WebDAV (and CardDAV/CalDAV clients) vary greatly in quality so real testing is always necessary. Notes regarding per-client testing will be posted to [these wiki pages](Clients).