Implement some kind of Paging support?

[yarikoptic]

I thought we had an issue but I think I just mentioned it in some comments elsewhere.

Looking at https://www.webdavsystem.com/javaserver/doc/paging/ suggests that WEBDAV might have support for pagination. That would be awesome if some could be added to dandidav to eliminate possible timeouts while needing to request full lists of items for heavy folders etc.

Also it might make navigation in browser view also more convenient.

[jwodder]

@yarikoptic Paging does not seem to be in any WebDAV standard; it seems to be specific to the WebDAV Server Library for Java.

Also, as I have stated before, the HTML view is not actually part of WebDAV.

[yarikoptic]

indeed, could not find anything besides statements that it is not supported.

Can then PROPFIND requests start to return as soon as they gather any information instead of delaying responding until everything is known? so -- to "stream" as more information figured out.

[jwodder]

@yarikoptic Theoretically, yes, but doing that here seems like too much pain for too little gain.

[yarikoptic]

wouldn't that allow to address e.g.

• Use case causing 503: Service Unavailable. #189

as it could start providing results as they come in from the API, and in general make webdav instance "more responsive"?

[jwodder]

@yarikoptic It wouldn't fully address that. Large pages would then load only partially before the request timed out, resulting in a partial (and, for PROPFIND, invalid) response.