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

[Alberto S. <am...@zb...>]

Hi, Juri

xst looks like exactly what I am trying to implement in python to help my tasks. What is it exactly? Any link?

Thank you



Alberto Simões


On Friday, December 12th, 2025 at 09:43, Juri Leino <ju...@ex...> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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