XRX/Move a Resource

Motivation You want to create an XForms front end to an XQuery script that will move a resource from one collection to another collection or you want to move a collection from one location to another location. Method We will build a simple XForms front end to the xmldb:move() operator. The syntax of the move operators is the following: xmldb:move($from-collection, $to-collection, $resource) Where: $from-collection is the path name to the collection you are moving the file from $to-collection is the path name to the collection you are moving the file to $resource in the name of the resource If you are going to move a complete collection the format is: xmldb:move($old-collection, $new-collection) On this case the operation: xmldb:move('/db/bar', '/db/foo') would result in the bar collection being located inside the foo collection: /db/foo/bar To test this application create two test collections in your eXist database such as: /db/from-collection /db/to-collection Sample XForms Client Create the following xhtml file: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"> <head> <title>Move File</title> <style language="text/css"> <![CDATA[ @namespace xf url("http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"); .from .xf-value {width: 40ex;} .to .xf-value {width: 40ex;} ]]> </style> <xf:model> <xf:instance xmlns=""> <data> <from>/db/from-collection</from> <to>/db/to-collection</to> <resource>foo.xml</resource> </data> </xf:instance> <xf:submission id="save" method="get" action="move.xq" separator="&" replace="all"/> </xf:model> </head> <body> <h3>Move Resource</h3> <xf:input ref="from" class="from"> <xf:label>From Collection:</xf:label> </xf:input> <xf:input ref="to" class="to"> <xf:label>To Collection:</xf:label> </xf:input> <xf:input ref="resource" class="resource"> <xf:label>Resource:</xf:label> </xf:input> <xf:submit submission="save"> <xf:label>Move File</xf:label> </xf:submit> </body> </html> Sample XQuery on Server The following XQuery named "move.xq" should be placed in the same collection as the move.xhtml file. xquery version "1.0"; declare namespace xmldb="http://exist-db.org/xquery/xmldb"; (: this logs you in and makes sure you have write access to the desitination folder :) let $login := xmldb:collection('/db/to-collection', 'username', 'password') let $from := request:get-parameter('from', '') let $to := request:get-parameter('to', '') let $resource := request:get-parameter('resource', '') let $code := xmldb:move($from, $to, $resource) return <html> <head> <title>Move Result</title> </head> <body> <b>from:</b>{$from}<br/> <b>to:</b>{$to}<br/> <b>resource:</b>{$resource}<br/> <b>result code:</b>Result code is </body> </html> Move a Collection xquery version "1.0"; declare option exist:serialize "method=xhtml media-type=text/html omit-xml-declaration=yes indent=yes"; (: this logs you in and makes sure you have write access to the destination folder :) let $login := xmldb:login('/db', 'user-id', 'your-password') let $from := request:get-parameter('from', '') let $to := request:get-parameter('to', '') (: You can put in checks to make sure that both from and to are not null here and that they both exist. :) let $move-result-code := xmldb:move($from, $to) return <html> <head> <title>Move Collection Result</title> </head> <body> <h1>Move Collection Result</h1> <b>from:</b>{$from}<br/> <b>to:</b>{$to}<br/> <b>result code:</b>Result code is:{$move-result-code} </body> </html> Discussion Now that you have the core move code done, you can enhance the program to browse to a specific collection for the source and browse to a specific collection for the destination. You can also create a listing of the resources in the source and destination folders. Back: Autoincrement File ID • Next: Save File Dialog