Description Menon 2008-10-01 18:24:50 EDT

Build ID: 3.4

Steps To Reproduce:
1. I craeted a generic web connector based repository using templates ( SQL based)
2. I try to "Attach context"
3. It says "Task repository does not support attachements"
4. It would be great if someone could support this for the generic web connector. This is a feature that we really would like to have.


More information:
When I posted the question about attachments in the Newsgroup, "Eugene Kuleshov" suggested that I submit a bug report. This is what he suggested to get this implemented in the generic web connector
 "So, it is relatively easy to implement support for attaching the task context in the web connector. The only issue is how to generalize required configuration. Other then that, api on mylyn side is more or less straightforward.

  Basically, in most cases, attaching something would require http post call to some URL with content type set to multipart/form-data. The call would need to have number of fields specified and should also include field for the attachment body, which is usually declared in html like this:

  <input name="data" type="file">

  So, the easiest way to configure that would be to add additional parameters to the connector configuration. It need to be an url with number of parameters required by the web server in order to submit an attachment. Values for some of those parameters would need to be substituted from variables, such as ${Id} ${Description} and ${Attachment}, for example:

  ${serverUrl}/attach/?taskId=${Id}&description=${Description}&data=${Attachment}&someOtherField=foo

  Then attachment submission can parse that url and construct the corresponding post request for submitting attachment. Generally not much different from submitting requests for task queries."