Subject: Re: Sakai Fedora Tool - msg#00432

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Re: Sakai 2.2 status

Glenn R. Golden wrote: test-harness has been removed from mini (it has dependencies on non-mini things). You might need to delete it locally after an update. Ahh, right. That's an interesting problem... since the test harness needs all of sakai's APIs to launch the component manager, it can't be part of sakai-mini and support sakai-max at the same time. I think I'll add a test-harness branch specifically for the mini distro. Josh -- Josh Holtzman Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley jholtzman@xxxxxxxxxxxx 510.643.7380 ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.

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svn external warning for Sakai

I just did something seemingly innocent that ended up loosing a lot of work. I'm not quite sure what happened, but perhaps it will become more clear when I explain it. I think that this is something we need to watch out for. I checked out the sakai/trunk. This had an older version of the site module. Since I was working on the site module, I deleted the site files locally and checked out svn/site/trunk site. Now I have the latest in-progress site files in-place with the sakai 2.2. code. After *much* work, and *many* changes made to site files, I was getting ready to check in - but I wanted to make sure all was well against the latest code - so I ran this command from my dev folder: svn update Usually, this is a great thing to do, as it updates all the code you have, leaving your changes alone. But in this case, when it got to the site files, it wiped out most of my work. This is because it was updating the site module from the externals definition, which was a different state of the repo. than I had actually checked out in the site folder. I'm not quite sure what it did, but it seemed to revert most of the files to the previous version, and deleted much of my new work. It happened so fast... I think the same thing could happen if you have a branch of your project that you are working on, and you, like I did, place it among the Sakai 2.2 files. This again sets up a condition where update from the root will use the externals definition, but your files are from some other part (another branch) of the repo. If I had done an update from site, it would have been fine. I think the problem was that I did it from the root. This is not a problem if you are working on the trunk of your project - then update and status work great from the root. So, if you have a module that is not part of the svn:externals of the distribution, but have the files in the distribution, and if the distribution might think that your files belong to it... watch out. - Glenn Glenn R. Golden Software Architect, University Of Michigan ggolden@xxxxxxxxx ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.

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Sakai Fedora Tool

Peter, Do you want to export _all_ content from Sakai (e.g. chats, schedules, assignments, ...), or simply the content in Resources? We've been working on a proof-of-principle sakai-fedora-tool. that allows users to browse, search and edit a Fedora Repository from within Sakai. The authentication/authorization between Sakai and Fedora would be shared, as described in the "Fedora Authorization with XACML Policy Enforcement" (which references OhioLINK's Shibboleth servlet filter in http://www.fedora.info/download/2.1/ userdocs/server/security/AuthorizationXACML.htm#ATTR3). I wasn't thinking of using Shibboleth, but using the Sakai user directory in place of the Tomcat-user attributes that Fedora uses by default. The sakai-fedora-tool is not well documented at this point, but the idea is to support a flexible data model (targeted for eResearch) defined by using XML Schema Files. I've attached a screenshot. Feel free to contact me offline if you want to talk about this some more. This might be an alternative that is feasible in your proposed timeframe. - Beth [see attachment: "sakai-fedora-tool.tiff", size: 80678 bytes] On Apr 19, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Peter Murray wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At OhioLINK, we're considering posting an idea to create some glue between Sakai and Fedora such that any content that comes into Sakai is ingested into the Fedora repository and any content in the Fedora repository is visible to Sakai. After looking at the Sakai architecture a bit, a project of this type is considerably more complex that I originally thought. And it may not be doable with today's technology -- in particular I'm thinking we'll need the n-tier Shibboleth capability to pass credentials between Sakai and Fedora. Opinions as to the wisdom of proposing this project -- particularly along the lines of comments about how it could or could not be achieved in a June to August timeframe -- would be most welcome. Peter On 4/19/06 8:18 AM, Knoop, Peter wrote: While the Sakai Foundation is not explicitly listed -- our mentoring resources are pretty well tapped out at the moment -- at least one partner school, Portland State University, lists Sakai in its suggested project areas. If there are others out there with available mentoring resources who are interested in doing this, please don't hesitate to sign your institution up! -peter -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Marquard [mailto:marquard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:25 PM To: sakai-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Google summer of code Google's summer of code is running again: http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html Shouldn't we be in there? :-) Cheers Stephen -- Stephen Marquard Learning Technologies Co-ordinator, Centre for Educational Technology Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town Email: marquard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx IM: xmpp:marquard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cell: +27-83-500-5290 ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences. ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences. - -- Peter Murray http://www.pandc.org/peter/work/ Assistant Director, Multimedia Systems tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338 OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network Columbus, Ohio -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFERjcV4+t4qSfPIHIRAgXgAKCidl4RMN4ZaNzJ/h/yy1pHeZ0RxgCeOUis wrbbfkVNcC9wvX4psZpQYwU= =8HtC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences. Attachments: sakai-fedora-tool.tiff http://collab.sakaiproject.org/access/content/attachment/2fdda46a-e2d2-42d4-0032-b3364e9d7acb/sakai-fedora-tool.tiff ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.

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Setting the current user id in 2.2

I'm trying to update the test-harness in 2.2, and I'm having difficulty "logging in" to sakai. Here's what used to work for me: Session session = SessionManager.getCurrentSession(); session.setUserId("admin"); session.setUserEid("admin"); But now calling UserDirectoryService.getCurrentUser().getId() returns an empty string. And when I try to take actions such as adding users, adding sites, etc, I get a PermissionException, since user is null. I've even tried AuthzGroupService.refreshUser("admin"), but that doesn't fix this either. Does anyone have any ideas what I need to do to set the current userID in 2.2? Thanks, Josh -- Josh Holtzman Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley jholtzman@xxxxxxxxxxxx 510.643.7380 ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.