Notify Collabora around changed document metadata

[juliusknorr]

Problem

Users might still interact with a file in different ways where this could lead to problems while it is currently being edited with Collabora.

Lock ownership changes

• File owners can unlock a locked file manually / A user switches from Collabora to edit locally
  • File should be saved
  • Existing editing sessions should be switched to read only
  • The users should be notified about that and why this happend
• If a file is saved outside
  • read only should update

Access permissions change

• Access is revoked (either full or just write access)
  • Collabora should stop editing, notify the user and offer to download the file if changes were made, there is no way we can save this back to Nextcloud then
• File was deleted
  • Not sure what the best approach here would be, notify the user at least and offer download or saving to another location

Implementation ideas

Neither of this is part of the WOPI standard.

• Post messages are not suitable (except for the edit locally option) as there is no open Collabora user session in the other cases
• Regular polling of checkFileInfo, would need some extra handling to detect/store the reason for later fetching of Collabora
• Endpoint to notify Collabora about a change
  • Might have larger overhead if we need to find matching file ids to know which Collabora documents we need to notify

[juliusknorr]

Quick notes from the call:

• Path based identifier and regex-like filter on a subset to match only relevant files within Collabora
• or notify with the exact wopisrc was changed or that it should be switched to read-only
• Quarantine target within Nextclouds folders
• Api for loading again
• Notify users about that
• Check if we can sync
• For data loss, notify users, save as with target file picker
• Local file editing, preferred solution would be to get a websocket from the client
• Refresh token (there should be an api for that)

[Rello]

Hello @juliushaertl any update on this?
Customer is complaining about the "edit local" button in Collabora.
Is it possible to hide this button until a solution is found?

[Rello]

@juliushaertl any update?
thank you

[juliusknorr]

Answered separately. Hiding as this is a different topic