ParseFromString does not work about jsdav

[mikedeboer]

thank you for the report! I will check it out as soon as I can/ have time!
What kind of system do you use lighttpd on?

[drahgon55]

I use lighttpd on the Palm Pre running webos 1.4.5. It is a linux based smartphone. I cannot remember the kernal version . It is 2.6.something. I'm using your server on webos 2.0. Which has is also linux based. So far uploads work since my webdav client library does not use xml for uploads and I se all my files through firefox since it uses a GET command and also does rely on xml. I'm going to try for now to use a get command to get a list of all files as a short term work around. I tried to fix the error but my node.js skills are pretty bad. So thanks for looking into this and great program! Please let me know your progress on this and if I can do any testing for you.

[mikedeboer]

I'm sorry for the questions, but I have to ask: which client library are you using? I could also be a bug in there... I'd like to take a look at its source or download the binary and try with that.
Thank you!

[drahgon55]

its no problem. Here is the link to the original client library. I have made some modifications but mainly just exception handling so the functionality should remain the same as my version. I am using it without any authentication at the moment.

http://kvdb.net/projects/webdav/

[drahgon55]

OK so I think I understand what is going on with this issue. I have been using jsDAV on webOS, which does not allow the use of node binary packages. o3 is a binary package therefore it does not load it. The latest version of jsDAV uses libxml which is based still off of o3 so I ran into the same issue.

I was however able to get the xml parsing working using the jsdom package. Since jsdom using creates a document object, it is compatible with the existing libxml implementation used in jsDAV. getting this to work only required changing three lines of code in Util.js.

I had to modify it to work without the Contextify package dependency, since Contextify contains binary dependencies, but I am able to parse xml now. This allows jsDAV to work completely using only javascript packages which makes it more versatile and cross-platform.

[mikedeboer]

hi @drahgon55 ! I would like to know how you changed to jsdom? It's probably obvious, but I'd still like to know!
Many thanks in advance...

[drahgon55]

I had first quickly modified jsdom to work without the contextify package since it is a native binary package. This step is optional, but for me webOS does not allow native binaries so it was necessary. Then I added in these line in util.js

var jsdom = require("./jsdom/lib/jsdom").jsdom;

and on line 534(in the loadDOMDocument function) I added
document = jsdom(exports.convertDAVNamespace(xml)),
root = exports.xmlParseError(document);

removed from the same line
root = exports.xmlParseError(Xml.parseFromString(exports.convertDAVNamespace(xml)).documentElement);

and from there everything should work as expected. Let me know if you have any more questions or I can attempt to push my changes, if you need me to.

[mikedeboer]

jsDAV has changed A LOT in two years. Current release is v0.3.0. Closing this issue, because it cannot be reproduced.

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