Package com.sapportals.wcm.repository.service.comment

Provides a service for handling comments related to resources.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
IComment	The interface represents a service for handling comments on resources.

Package com.sapportals.wcm.repository.service.comment Description

Provides a service for handling comments related to resources.

Package Specification

Purpose

The comment service handles comments that users store for resources. It supports add and get methods.

Configuration

The comments service can be configured with the parameters shown in the table.
The parameters can be set with the help of the user interface of the Content Management configuration framework.
For more information see the documentation Administering Content Management.

The parameters in the table that are not required have default values that are used if no value is specified.

Parameter	Required	Description
class	Yes/no	The class that implements the comment service interface and is used for this system
Repository	Yes	Repository where comments are stored
Root	Yes	The root directory of the repository where comments are stored

The following is a sample configuration entry:

Parameter	Value
class	com.sapportals.wcm.repository.service.comment.CommentManager
Repository	/collaboration
Root	comment

An instance of the comment service must be configured for each repository where it is required.

Implementation Notes

Comments are stored as files. The files are locates in the root directory for comments as shown in the example:

 /collaboration/comment/<Unique ID of Resource>/comment.txt

A namespace filter is started with the service. This filter is responsible for determining access rights.
Only users with read access for a resource can view comments assigned to the resource.