[Exist-development] httpclient issues

[Loren C. <lor...@gm...>]

Hello folks,

I am needing to add the HTTP method PROPPATCH to the httpclient function module.  That requires adding a WebDAV client jar file.  I originally was going to add webdavlib-2.0.jar, but Dannes informed me that it is orphaned.  I am looking at adding the jackrabbit-standalone-2.1.1.jar, but am encountering a compilation error.

In all of these files there appears to be a problem with the org.apache.tools.ant.Task log method:

src/org/exist/ant/UserTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/AddUserTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/BackupTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/ChmodTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/ChownTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/ListGroupsTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/ListUsersTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/LockResourceTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/RemoveUserTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/RestoreTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/UserPasswordTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBCopyTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBCreateTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBExtractTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBListTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBMoveTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBQueryTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBRemoveTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBShutdownTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBStoreTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBXPathTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBXQueryTask.java
src/org/exist/ant/XMLDBXUpdateTask.java


    [javac] symbol  : method log(java.lang.String,org.xmldb.api.base.XMLDBException,int)
    [javac] location: class org.exist.ant.XMLDBXUpdateTask
    [javac]                 log(msg, e, Project.MSG_ERR);


I think that the simplest approach would be to use webdavlib-2.0.jar since we are also using orphaned axis code as well.

There is also another issue.  The commons-httpclient-3.1.jar has been superseded with the HttpComponents project http://hc.apache.org/.

What should be our plan of attack?
I would like to add the downloading of the webdavlib-2.0.jar in the building of the httpclient extension module so that I can get the PROPPATCH method implemented.

We can then discuss HttpComponents and Axis2.

Cheers,
Loren