[CONNECTORS-1071] The windows Shares connector needs some improvement in dates and other fields management

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: ManifoldCF 1.7
• Fix Version/s: ManifoldCF 1.8, ManifoldCF 2.0
• Component/s: JCIFS connector
• Assignee: Karl Wright
• Reporter: Antonio David Pérez Morales
• Created: 14/Oct/14 08:31
• Updated: 20/Oct/14 10:22
• Resolved: 15/Oct/14 06:44

Description

Right now the connector is overwriting the tika metadata "creation_date" and "last_modification_Date" for a document. This is happening because at a Windows Shares level you have a creation_date and a last_modification_date (related to the creation of the document in the windows shares filesystem) that are different from the creation_date and the last_modification_date associated to the original file.
There is the need to change the metadata name to distinguish between this 2 layers of dates and guaranteeing flexibility to the user to use the one that he/she wants with a proper mapping.
A plus can be to format the date in the lucene standard, to be aligned with a proper standard.

• Url metadata :
  Can be useful to extract the Url and store it in a specific metadata ( further than the ID of the document). In this way we can keep it as Id but also use it with other mappings without affecting the Id field.
• Parent Directory path :
  Can be useful to extract the Path for the directory that contains the current file. Evaluate well this as can be a redundancy or an improvement.