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Function to start external program #2

Closed MuhKuh7 closed 2 years ago

MuhKuh7 commented 8 years ago

It would be cool to have a possibility to call an external program from within an app.

I am using a DMS for all my documents and store the ID in Banana. Now I would like to create an app that allows me to open the linked document in my DMS client. To do that I need the possibility to call an external program with an argument.

dzucchetti commented 8 years ago

For security reason, for the moment BananaApps cannot directly write to file or call external programs.

On 26.10.2015 19:37, MuhKuh7 wrote:

It would be cool to have a possibility to call an external program from within an app.

I am using a DMS for all my documents and store the ID in Banana. Now I would like to create an app that allows me to open the linked document in my DMS client. To do that I need the possibility to call an external program with an argument.

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dzucchetti commented 8 years ago

Do you have any suggestion on how we could provide a way to call your software without compromizing the security model?

MuhKuh7 commented 8 years ago

One option would be to explicitly let the user enable such a feature in the settings. Similar to the filetypes you can configure as secure.

Another idea is to allow the execution of an URI with a specific scheme. A function like "openUri" or similar. I could then use the DMS URI provided by the DMS system. dms://localhost/doc/20. The real URI is much more complex, but you get the idea ;)

I know that there are already columns in the tables that allow URLs, but I have 2 problems with them. First they seem to allow http/https only, and second from a user perspective it is much easier to enter the document ID instead of an URL.

MuhKuh7 commented 8 years ago

Do you have any news regarding this? I really would like to connect Banana to my DMS.

dzucchetti commented 8 years ago

I will like to speak with you to see what could be the best technology to solve the problem. Could you call us o send an email with your coordinate. Domenico