Bug 408145

Description Chris McGee 2013-05-15 11:46:34 EDT

I have been working on a custom server that implements the server API's (file, prefs, workspace, etc.). I have been using the wiki pages as a guide for the implementation: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Server_API. The Orion version I am using is the latest available in the git repo.

I have noticed a number of discrepancies between these pages and the way that the orion interacts with the node server.

A couple of examples:

In the File API (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Server_API/File_API) there are a number of entries showing the property "Directory" with a stringified boolean value (e.g. "false" or "true"). When I implemented it this way it was clear that the editor was expecting literal boolean values (ie. false or true).

In a number of places in the File API and Workspace API it shows the "Location" and "ContentLocation" properties having full URI string values (e.g. "Location" : "http://example.com/file/MyProj/myfile.txt") but when my server returns full URI's the editor produces error. I have found through experimentation that the editor prefers relative paths (e.g. "Location" : "/file/MyProj/myfile.txt").

Once I started reverse engineering the protocol using the node server things started working much better.