Add support for WebDAV (Owncloud/Nextcloud among others)

[lapineige]

Just porting this old issue: hackmdio/codimd#245

It would be really cool to have a WebDav support, and this way to support Nextcloud and Owncloud instances. This would be a lot easier and faster than managing exports to Nextcloud for each changes (or each time you want to preview some file).

Then the Nextcloud community could also create an app to integrate directly CodiMD into Nextcloud as a Markdown editor.

[sunjam]

Found this while looking to see if webdav could be used for import/export of files, similar to the existing Dropbox integration.

[b3]

Having hedgedoc working within Nextcloud would be a killer feature.

[timmwille]

@b3 I absolutely agree, any news on this front? Hedgedoc is amazing, would be great to integrate it into the Nextcloud universe!

[timmwille]

is this connected as a workaround for now?
otetard/ownpad#87

[b3]

@timmwille I do not see it that way.

ownpad is a way to use such a tool from inside Nextcloud not to integrate it properly: the data are not under the Nextcloud control.

Adding support for webdav would be a way to store data into a Nextcloud instance.

[sunjam]

ownpad actually: - is available from the nextcloud webui - saves etherpad lite entries as *.pad to filesystem

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[timmwille]

@b3 @sunjam thx for clarification, so what would be the best approach to integrate HedgeDoc as Nextcloud App? the current Markdownpad App is screwed
nextcloud/text#593
the problem is well explained here:
nextcloud/text#772 (comment)

If HedgeDoc could support an integration in the future into Nextcloud this could become an official App supported by Nextcloud.

Sadly I'm not a Software developer myself to provide such solution for the community, I just see the potential and the existing gap in Nextcloud and I love HedgeDoc (as well as our whole ose-germany.de team)

[JimKillock]

Would it be possible for someone to outline the skills needed and estimate the time commitment to develop this feature?

[davidmehren]

We are currently developing HedgeDoc 2, based on a NestJS backend and a React frontend. Like HD1, HD2 will store all note content and revisions in its database.

There is currently no integrated way to automatically store/update note content somewhere else, like in a Git repo or a WebDAV folder. We plan to think about such features after HD2 had its first stable release (sorry, no ETA on that).

It might work like this:

• modules can register themselves to be informed about new note revisions, maybe via Nest events
• when a new revision is created, the modules are informed about that and can then do what they want (update a Git repo, save to WebDAV)
• we would also need a way for modules to inform the application about external changes and new notes

Any more detailed planning will have to wait for after the HD2 release, as we are first focusing on reimplementing features from HD1.

[xeruf]

I would love to simply use a folder structure as backend for hedgedoc, so that I can create and view a collection of Markdown documents in Nextcloud or HedgeDoc, as well as auto-exporting it via something like Hyperbook.
This could save you the trouble of implementing WebDAV as a separate auxiliary program could handle that from the folder, preventing bloat.