Support for WebDAV SEARCH (RFC 5323)

[mkarg]

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH (WebDAV SEARCH), defined by RFC 5323, is an official IETF Internet Official Protocol Standard (STD1). It specifies a set of methods, headers, and properties composing Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH, an application of the HTTP/1.1 protocol to efficiently search for DAV resources based upon a set of client-supplied criteria.

While WebDAV allows to browse remote "file" servers via HTTP, WebDAV SEARCH allows to search these same servers, i.e . to send search queries describing what to look for, and getting back a list of matching "files".

[mkarg]

@oboehm We successfully used this extension of web-dav JAX-RS in production for more than a decade and like to contribute what we have so far. It is a full set of XML elements plus the @SEARCH annotation, developed originally ontop of the web-dav 1.2.1 release. Unfortunately the original source code, including all tests, was thrown away in a cleanup many years ago, but I have decompiled the exisiting JARs. They seem to be complete and working, but if you need tests, then you should write some on your own. Just tell me if this sounds like a deal for you so I will donate this. We also have an implementation (aka a Search Engine) but it is closed source so I may not contribute that implementation, but it should be easy to implement one ontop of the webdav-fileserver. :-)

[oboehm]

@mkarg : deal - I will do my best to reactivate it. Sorry for the late answer but I didn't notice it before...

[mkarg]

I am quite busy these days but I hope by end of February I find the time to send you the code.