webdav functionality requires a different url from pure nextcloud functionality

[jcdufourd]

I have tried creating a folder then adding a share to it using nextcloud-link and it fails.
The folder is not created and the share fails.

With the main url of the nextcloud server provided to the nextcloud-link client, adding a share on an existing folder works, but creating a folder does not.

If I add a folder with a generic webdav module, with the webdav-specific url provided in nextcloud files settings, it works.

The bug I suspect is that you need two different URLs in the client, one for webdav functionality and another for other functionality.

Using nextcloud 29

[kwisatz]

Hi @jcdufourd ,

Your assumption that two different endpoints (request paths) are responsible for creating a share and creating a directory is correct. The former uses the OCS API, while the latter uses WebDAV.

However, nextcloud-link should transparently use either one by passing just a single URL when initialising the client.

Could you please post a minimal failing example for what you're doing, so that we can try and reproduce your error?

[jcdufourd]

import NextcloudClient from "nextcloud-link";
…
const client = new NextcloudClient(
{
"url": "https://myservername:33333/",
"username": “myadmin”,
"password": “pw”
});
…
// GroupFolders exists as a folder in the root directory of the myadmin user
await client.createFolderHierarchy('GroupFolders/'+nextcloudgroupname); // does nothing, no error, folder not created
await client.touchFolder('GroupFolders/'+nextcloudgroupname); // does nothing, no error, folder not created
…
// if I create the folder in the web interface
await client.shares.add('GroupFolders/'+nextcloudgroupname, 1, "leaders", 31); // works perfectly

And then:
await client.touchFolder(‘/GroupFolders/'+nextcloudgroupname); // works
await client.shares.add(‘/GroupFolders/'+nextcloudgroupname, 1, "leaders", 31); // works

What was confusing me is the fact that client.shares.add works with path without initial /, and touchFolder does not.

It is not a bug, just a minor inconvenience to maybe document.