Command line access to context menu features

[PVince81]

Use case:

• as a command line nerd, I want to copy the private link of a given local file without having to open the GUI file manager
• as a command line nerd, I want to create a public link of a given local file without having to open the GUI file manager

Current flow:

1. Move/copy or create a file "test.txt" inside the local "ownCloud" folder
2. Wait a bit for sync
3. Open file manager, in my case dolphin .
4. Locate the uploaded file
5. Right client
6. Copy private link

Expected flow:

1. Move/copy or create a file "test.txt" inside the local "ownCloud" folder
2. Wait a bit for sync
3. owncloud-cli show-private-link test.txt
4. System outputs the private link

[PVince81]

at least two possible approaches:

• Approach 1: communicate with the running client over its socket API to retrieve the info
  • implies that the client must be running
  • implies that the socket API also exposes this feature (maybe it's used by desktop integration already)
• Approach 2: an independent tool that finds the sync database and reads the necessary info from there
  • less integrated and likely need code duplication in regards to link creation (as far as I remember these might be read from some oc properties)

[PVince81]

For approach 2:

from what I see the fileid is available in the sync db:

phash|pathlen|path|inode|uid|gid|mode|modtime|type|md5|fileid|remotePerm|filesize|ignoredChildrenRemote|content

so it might just be a matter of: 1) check every parent folder for the sync db, file with format ._sync_$hash.db and remember this as the sync root 2) compute the relative path based on sync root 3) open the DB file 4) select fileid from metadata where path='$relativePath' => $fileid 5) find the $baseUrl somewhere in main config ??? 6) create private link based on known format: "$baseUrl/f/$fileid".

[PVince81]

hmm or first go and read the configs in .local/share/data/ownCloud/owncloud.cfg to find all sync configs and find the root path, which incidentally also contains the path to the sync DB.

ok, depending what the client devs say I might spend some spare time writing up a quick python script to do just that :-)