Hi Dinuka, I reviewed your pending PR and it looks really good. I'm glad that you have followed standard coding style to make this more consistent with the rest of the code. I will reply inline for your comments
[9] https://github.com/apache/airavata-mft/pull/5 Thanks Dimuthu On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:26 AM Apache Airavata <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dinuka, > > Thanks for the nice summary and for your contributions. These style of > communication is a good example for GSOC students to follow. > > Suresh > > On Apr 19, 2020, at 10:17 AM, Dinuka Desilva <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear community, > > I started working on box transport for airavata-mft agent. For now, let me > share my findings. > > There's an SDK available as a maven dependency [2] and they do have a > comprehensive documentation [3]. > > So, far I couldn't find a way to create or recreate files by path. Instead > it supports only recreating an existing file by id [4] or uploading a new > file to an identified folder which requires both folder id and file id > [4][5], So, assuming creation by path is not supported, both source and > destination files have to be available before the transport. > > Looking at the documentation, they support us to provide the file id when uploading the file. Can't we use as the alternative for resource path? > One limitation found in uploading was that uploading chunks is limited to > files larger than 20mb [1]. So, the transport method has to check the file > size and decide whether to uploaded as chunks or not. > > Still I'm working on to figure out an authentication method [6]. I could > find only dev token [8] to be working yet. They provide an app token, which > seems limited only to some api calls [7]. And the other options are JWT > and Oauth2. While Oauth2 is out of the scope, JWT has many options to get a > connection without a login though neither worked to me yet. > > References > [1] https://developer.box.com/guides/uploads/chunked/ > [2] http://opensource.box.com/box-java-sdk/ > [3] https://github.com/box/box-java-sdk/blob/master/doc/files.md > [4] > https://github.com/box/box-java-sdk/blob/master/doc/files.md#upload-a-large-file-version-in-chunks > [5] > https://github.com/box/box-java-sdk/blob/master/doc/folders.md#get-a-folders-information > [6] https://github.com/box/box-java-sdk/blob/master/doc/authentication.md > [7] https://developer.box.com/guides/embed/box-view/ > [8] > https://github.com/box/box-java-sdk/blob/master/doc/authentication.md#developer-token > > Regards, > Dinuka > >
