I need a file lock function to prevent multiple people from opening it at the same time. Is there any way?

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I am using multiple users, but transactional locking is not convenient for me. Is there any way to prevent multiple people from opening the same file at the same time? Thank you

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Yes. The API already exists. And an app for manual file locking is in preperation:


You can already use the API today, or wait for this app to be ready soon.

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Could you provide a link to the documentation of the manual file locking API, if there is any?

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I haven’t been able to find the documentation for this either, perhaps this still needs to be documented?
@dmitry ? Should we open a ticket in the docs repo for this?

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I will ask around and take the required steps. Thanks for alerting me

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This app is in early development - no docs for it. When it’s finished - docs will be written.

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I was also asking about the API docs, these also don’t exist yet, but apparently just follow the spec. Sorry I don’t have more information.

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If any user is still interested in some kind of developer API for manual resource locking, I guess one can just use WebDav: http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc4918.xml#METHOD_LOCK (Chapter 9.10)
Seems to work so far. (Or is there a reason not to (ab)use this?)

grafik

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Yes, the WebDAV API spec is exactly correct. We follow Open Standards.

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