Currently the `getPath` methods returned `NULL` in case when a file with the specified ID does not exist. This however mandates that developers are checking for the `NULL` case and if they do not the door for bugs with all kind of impact is widely opened.
This is especially harmful if used in context with Views where the final result is limited based on the result of `getPath`, if `getPath` returns `NULL` PHP type juggles this to an empty string resulting in all possible kind of bugs.
While one could argue that this is a misusage of the API the fact is that it is very often misused and an exception will trigger an immediate stop of execution as well as log this behaviour and show a pretty error page.
I also adjusted some usages where I believe that we need to catch these errors, in most cases this is though simply an error that should hard-fail.
Previously the mount name was checked for uniqueness prior to inserting the
share. This caused problems, when two shares with the same name where done
or folder, mount point, local share with the same name was done, between
sending and accepting of the remote share
Beside some small improvements and bug fixes this will probably the final state for OC8.
To test this you need to set up two ownCloud instances. Let's say:
URL: myPC/firstOwnCloud user: user1
URL: myPC/secondOwnCloud user: user2
Now user1 can share a file with user2 by entering the username and the URL to the second ownCloud to the share-drop-down, in this case "user2@myPC/secondOwnCloud".
The next time user2 login he will get a notification that he received a server-to-server share with the option to accept/decline it. If he accept it the share will be mounted. In both cases a event will be send back to user1 and add a notification to the activity stream that the share was accepted/declined.
If user1 decides to unshare the file again from user2 the share will automatically be removed from the second ownCloud server and user2 will see a notification in his activity stream that user1@myPC/firstOwnCloud has unshared the file/folder from him.
Joas Schilling
Thomas Müller
Lukas Reschke
Morris Jobke
Arthur Schiwon
Jenkins for ownCloud
Bjoern Schiessle