[Archive-access-discuss] Extending the AccessPoint class

[Nicolas G. <nik...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have browsed the 1.7.1 code on GitHub, and I've seen quite a couple
of interesting things with the new AccessPoint class hierarchy.
However the code is nearly undocumented, so I'd appreciate a couple of
explanations.

First let me explain what I'm trying to do. The infrastructure we use
for Wayback at the French National library implies that Wayback acts
in proxy mode, but with a single proxy (the proxy is configured once
and for all in the browser). We have two additional needs:

- also be able to process ArchivalUrl replay requests (as we can use
these as permalinks)
- be able to choose which WaybackCollection we want to search in,
without changing the browser's proxy

This worked with Wayback 1.4.1, but the code was quite a hack, since
AccessPoint was hardly extensible. I have adapted this code and
enhanced it a bit for 1.7.1, but still am not satisfied with the
design. Now looking at AccessPointAdapter and ProxyAccessPoint
classes, I believe there might be a clean way to implement those
functions.

Can someone please provide a bit of background about the new
AccessPoint class hierarchy? Configuration examples maybe?

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Nicolas Giraud
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Développeur Archives du Web - Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Web Archiving Developper - National Library of France
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