[WAGON-624] wagon-http webdav MKCOL - create parent directories for the uploaded files

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Andrew Gurinovitch opened WAGON-624 and commented

WAGON-121 describes this problem.

wagon-http doesn't create parent dirs when uploading a file over webdav

e.g. webdav PUT /maven/io/jooby/jooby-project/2.11.1-SNAPSHOT/jooby-project-2.11.1-20220107.184108-1.pom HTTP/1.1 will fail with 403 if any of the parent dirs are missing.

It was suggested in WAGON-121 to use WebDAV verb MKCOL(defined in rfc4918) to create the intermediate dirs(recursively).

WAGON-121 was closed as "wontfix" since webdav was out of scope of wagon-http, however things have changed since 2010, and webdav support seems to be folded to wagon-http now:

"This Wagon provider is deprecated and will be removed in version 4.0.0. Its features will be partially folded into the default HTTP provider."

 

I suggest we should recursively create directory structure for the files uploaded over the webdav.

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Affects: 3.5.1

Issue Links:

• WAGON-617 Deprecate Wagon WebDAV Provider

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Michael Osipov commented

The deprecation notice says will be and not is. WebDAV will only work, if and only if your URI is some form of DAV and you have the WebDAV provide as build extension. Do you have this?

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Andrew Gurinovitch commented

Yes, it works when using wagon-webdav. But this is a deprecated extension marked for removal.

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Michael Osipov commented

Then I don't understand this request.

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Andrew Gurinovitch commented

"This Wagon provider(WebDAV) is deprecated and will be removed in version 4.0.0. Its features will be partially folded into the default HTTP provider"

this is an improvement request to add MKCOL support into wagon-http, as wagon-http is mentioned as a successor of wagon-webdav.

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Michael Osipov commented

But isn't it obvious that I would have moved the code anyway, even w/o your improvement request since I have written that message?

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Michael Osipov commented

Since I am the only one working on Wagon, expect that the transition period will take at least a year and several iterations.