Re: Inserting content and metadata separately with FCP?

To put it very concisely, yes, I think that is what I would need.  :)

Thanks for all your work!

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> Okay so the basic problem here is that ClientPutComplexDir doesn't allow 
> setting MIME types [on redirects]? We can fix that...
> https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2672
>
> Sorry that this will not be addressed immediately ... we have some broken but 
> potentially very useful code in trunk, and some major problems with the 
> network at large, and we need to deal with them...
>
> On Friday 31 October 2008 21:25, Dan Stevens wrote:
>   
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I am writing an FCP client in Ruby that keeps track of Freenet keys of
>> already inserted files.  This way it can save time and only insert new
>> files or files that have changed.  The thing is, I would like to
>> insert file content separately from metadata.  i.e., insert the raw
>> bytes with one ClientPut, record the resulting key, and then insert a
>> small redirect to the content with the equivalent of TargetFilename
>> and Metadata.ContentType.  This way, if a large file gets renamed,
>> only the metadata needs to be reinserted, as it will point to the same
>> content key as before.
>>
>> What I am running into is this:  when I do the insert all at once
>> ('default mode'), I see (using KeyExplorer) that a small file is
>> inserted in 2 chunks: one for the content, and one SimpleManifest.
>> This is great, but I would like to be able to do it in 2 steps so I
>> can record the content key.
>>
>> I have tried using ClientPut with TargetFilename and
>> Metadata.ContentType and a redirect to the content (for lack of a
>> concise and descriptive term I call this 'grover mode').
>>
>> I have also tried using ClientPutComplexDir with Files.0.Name,
>> Files.0.Metadata.ContentType, and Files.0.UploadFrom = a redirect to
>> the content ('elmo mode').
>>
>> Neither of these methods manages to do quite the same thing as the
>> all-at-once ClientPut, which seems to create a SimpleManifest that
>> includes a content type:  grover mode creates 3 separate keys (a
>> SimpleManifest, a SingleFileRedirect, and the content), and elmo mode
>> creates a SimpleManifest with no ContentType (as indicated by
>> http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FCP2p0ClientPutComplexDir, 'redirect'
>> form does not even look at Files.X.Metadata.ContentType).
>>
>> Is there any way to do the same thing that all-at-once ClientPut does
>> in 2 steps?
>>
>> For your KeyExploring pleasure, these are the keys I have created:
>>
>> Content only: 
>>     
> CHK@iWsZEjAbnRHtd3Bb667YmfYdvjjwRiTPeqLjOgbQ8bQ,7MUhazJcFaj-PSeFyqwLn3yFPUAHQSOgpzL8G2kZaNA,AAIA--8
>   
>> Default: 
>>     
> CHK@KpxYY6ozE~1TntkRajChhBGoOq~2f-Ja0HG9S3Bz98U,sRsN~02jy-svxJUDj-bbmkQeh6B8p-bR~xPa~WLxaKw,AAIC--8
>   
>> Grover: 
>>     
> CHK@~AYE2dkIxCn667XGJ~bLq2T4baRFD~U4z38hkqb0DGk,nGvXzX5XsA49a7Q8FD1kTEdKAyJMkq78yjQ2Wt5udYw,AAIC--8
>   
>> Elmo:  
>>     
> CHK@vCI3knF8oz9KYMbs1CYYms9NUQghfFpWTNSCMK2CaDY,V4vln6lTPjGckCvdiFcCdgeObrRfz7SbG1KvDwrOVm8,AAIC--8
>   
>> Thanks for any advice you can give,
>> - TOGoS
>>