How to use external taxonomy with the data list and directory facility of nuxeo?

Question

i though that a vocabulary was a special type of directory or that at list a directory could provide a source for a vocabulary. It seems notData List and directories. What i want to acheive is to plug my taxonomy server into nuxeo. In other words, i would like nuxeo to use taxonomies that are defined externally. Isn't the directory abstraction meant for it ? The taxonomy server provide some rest service for external access.

Answer 1

Yes the directory abstraction is designed to abstract lists like yours. You need to implement a new Nuxeo component and implement a org.nuxeo.ecm.directory.DirectoryFactory and a org.nuxeo.ecm.directory.Directory as well as a org.nuxeo.ecm.directory.Session. It's not as easy as it should and involves a few classes, but it's quite feasible.

You can take as an example the SQL implementation in nuxeo-platform-directory-sql to get an idea if what's needed.