WebDav Implementation

This drb-impl-webdav module implements the webdav protocol access with DRB data model.

WebDav Factory and WebDav Node

The module implements the factory model defined in DRB in its node resolver. Based on the python entry point mechanism, this module can be dynamically imported into applications.

The entry point group reference is drb.impl.
The implementation name is webdav.
The factory class is encoded into drb_impl_webdav.drb_impl_webdav.
The webdav signature id is ee1b4fc6-8da0-11ec-b909-0242ac120002

The Webdav can be instantiated from an uri, the hostname and a set of optional options. The ParsedPath class provided in drb core module can help to manage these inputs.

Using this module

The project is present in https://www.pypi.org service. it can be freely loaded into projects with the following command line:

pip install drb-impl-webdav

Access Data

DrbWebdavNode manages the webdav protocol to access remote data. The construction parameter is the host url and a set of optional argument.

from drb_impl_webdav import DrbWebdavNode

# Anonymous connection
node = DrbWebdavNode(webdav_hostname="hostname")

# Basic Auth connection
node = DrbWebdavNode(webdav_hostname="hostname",
                     webdav_login='user',
                     webdav_password='password'
                     )

# Certificate connection
node = DrbWebdavNode(webdav_hostname="hostname",
                     webdav_login='user',
                     webdav_password='password',
                     webdav_cert_path='/etc/ssl/certs/certificate.crt',
                     webdav_key_path='/etc/ssl/private/certificate.key'
                     )

Webdav protocol allows navigation inside the webdav server. To do so this implementation is able to provide children of the same DrbWebdavNode type.

Authentication

Required key is host name or IP address of the WevDAV-server with param name webdav_hostname. For authentication in WebDAV server use webdav_login, webdav_password. For an anonymous login do not specify auth properties. When a proxy server you need to specify settings to connect through it with proxy_hostname, proxy_login and proxy_password. If you want to use the certificate path to certificate and private key use webdav_cert_path and webdav_key_path.

Limitations

None

Documentation

The documentation of this implementation can be found here https://drb-python.gitlab.io/impl/webdav