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Re: Showing the file size in Archiva

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On 01/07/2009, at 2:03 PM, Wendy Smoak wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Brett Porter<brett@...> wrote:
>> On 01/07/2009, at 5:36 AM, Wendy Smoak wrote:
>>
>>> I was talking with a user recently who needs to know the exact  
>>> size of
>>> the artifacts in Archiva.
>>
>> How is it different from what is reported in the orange download  
>> box? Are
>> you looking for totals?
>
> That's probably right [1], but they don't want to look at each
> artifact individually to get it.  It needs to be on the summary page
> [really, in something that can be consumed, like xml.]

I think there is a feature req. in to add more info to the webdav  
listings that might help. You could certainly use the WebDAV protocol  
to crawl the information.

It could also be added to the xmlrpc search service quickly.

>
> [1] though there are no units? 373,292 whats?

trained monkeys required to reimplement it from scratch.

(I think it is commonly understood to be bytes if omitted. eg. http://www.apache.org/dist/archiva/binaries/)

>
> Thanks,
> --
> Wendy

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