Dvc: WebDav: new remote type

[dmpetrov]

WebDav is a quite common protocol for file sharing.

It is especially convenient because box.com provides 10Gb free and supports WebDav.

[jurasan]

I'd like to work on this. Could you give someone directions where to look in the code for similar functionality and correct place to implement this one.

[dmpetrov]

@jurasan, in dvc/remote/ directory you can find code examples for S3, Azure and other remotes. WebDav should be just another remote for DVC.

[jurasan]

Which branch should I work on?

[efiop]

@jurasan On master. Work on your dvc fork and send a PR when you are ready. Also please feel free to ping us if you need anything.

[ghost]

@jurasan, in addition to @efiop response, we have a contributing guide that may help you with your PR: https://dvc.org/doc/user-guide/contributing/

[jurasan]

box.com drops support for WebDav
https://community.box.com/t5/Box-Product-News/Deprecation-WebDAV-Support/ba-p/55684

[jurasan]

I'm now looking for a good python webdav library supporting python 2.7.
I found this one, though it's not maintained for the last 2 years.
https://github.com/CloudPolis/webdav-client-python

Does anyone have experience with this or can hint any other library.

[efiop]

@jurasan Unfortunately I don't have much experience with WebDav 🙁 I'm sure you've already considered it, but https://pypi.org/project/fs.webdavfs/ looks a bit more promising, supports 2.7 and looks somewhat maintained as a part of https://github.com/PyFilesystem/pyfilesystem2 .

[jurasan]

Thanks. I actually managed to miss it somehow. Generally it seems, that WebDav is dying slowly and we're lucky to at least have those.

[efiop]

@jurasan I agree. Do you plan on using webdav driver yourself(if so, with which storage provider?), or are you working on a patch for fun?

[jurasan]

We have our internal company cloud that uses WebDav

[efiop]

Ah, I see. Please don't hesitate to ping us if you need any help.

[garylschultz]

This is still of interest, as I've got a project that is pushing to use Citrix ShareFile, which supports WebDav. Is WebDav support still actively being worked on?

[efiop]

@garylschultz Our core team is not working on this (at least yet). But @jurasan seems to have been working on his patch, I'm not sure what state it is in though :slightly_frowning_face: @jurasan Maybe you need some help? Also, maybe @garylschultz will be willing to help out too :slightly_smiling_face:

[gw0]

WebDAV support would also enable the use of private file-hosting solutions, like Nextcloud, Owncloud, and others.

[shizacat]

Hi,
I try to create the remote - webdav and saw interesting thing. She different from remote http only one string - upload need method PUT

Example in PR

But that need change base - schema change to http.