[ACE-402] Change file repository layout and prefs usage

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Repository
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bram de Kruijff
• Created: 05/Aug/13 10:35
• Updated: 21/Jan/16 08:58

Description

ACE-391 added optional configuration to the file repositories, but there are still two concerns that I would like to address which are not strictly backward compatible.

1) The RepositoryFactory assigns working directories based on the PID which is a hard to interpret randomly generated number. As we have logical concepts as 'customer' and 'name' for repositories I suggest to use those (in a fs safe fashion) instead.

Eg.

current layout : <basedir>/<pid>/<revision><extension>
proposed layout : <basedir>/<customer>/<name>/<revision>[extension]

2) The RepositoryFactory uses prefs (keeping unsafe refs which is a bug) for, AFAICS, the sole purpose of guaridng uniqueness of customer/name combination. Addressing the layout as described in 1 voids the need for prefs altogether so I ould like to remove it.

Issue Links

• is related to: ACE-420 DeploymentProvider cannot cope with different customers
• is related to: ACE-391 Make file repository storage location configurable
• relates to: ACE-425 Remove usage of Preferences service in RepositoryFactory