AppData API for settings ...

[mmeeks]

We would like a new API extension to WOPI that lets us serialize configuration data; essentially a two layer system and then user set of settings. Discussed with @elzody

• CheckFileInfo
  -> we want two directory listings:
  [ each with a file-name, and an opaque to us string etag (- did it change? -) ]
  -> one directory per system ...
  -> one directory per user ...

  => similar to the fonts end-point ? ...
  => could re-use the JSON there ? ...
  + JSON - name + stamp

  => implementation should use AppData
  + as per fonts ...
  => nice API for this IAppData
  + will give us a directory listing.

• URLs -> to find this stuff ...

  • we get handed the URLs in CheckFileInfo
    => authentication token to get them ...

Fun code in:
lib/Controller/DocumentController.php
lib/Controller/WopiController.php

• Links to other things in the WopiController.php response

• We would need an end-point:

  • to up-load over existing files ...

  • create new files [!?] ...

    • so we need an end-point we can up-load / create new files over - at JSON top-level.

  • richdocuments/appinfo/routes.php -> defines the end-points.

• Suggest we use eg. 'SettingJSON' = '{ foo }' in the CheckFileInfo ... and have URLs in there.

would use access_token for authentication for the fetch & up-load.

[mmeeks]

Other bits we might need: users have a habit of corrupting their settings (somehow) - so a "restore defaults" - which just deletes all settings would be useful in the Nextcloud settings.

[mmeeks]

@pedropintosilva and @juliushaertl - you'd be interested in this perhaps :-)