Re: [Exist-open] Opening a file in eXide without browsing

[Juri L. <ju...@ex...>]

Hi Alberto!

On 09.12.25 22:11, Alberto Simões wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 at 20:37, Alberto Simões <am...@zb...> wrote:
>
>> Probably this is something available in a later exist version (if that is the case, just let me know). But, is there a way to open a file in eXide without browsing the collection?
Yes, eXide accepts a search parameter "open"
Example:
http://localhost:8888/exist/apps/eXide/index.html?open=/db/apps/dashboard/repo.xml 

>> It happens that I have more than 120K files in a folder, and even filtering, crashes eXide completely :-(

The File>Manage dialog is be able to handle collections with that many 
child resources at least in recent versions of eXide (latest is 3.5.4).

> nded up writing a small python3 script to edit the file, as it seems the index was broken because of an invalid document ID. Nevertheless, having a direct way to open a file when you know the name would be great :-)
Have you considered to use xst's edit command for that?

xst edit /db/apps/dashboard/repo.xml --editor vim


Cheers,

Juri