Swap Google Doc Owners

One of the rules of nature is large organizations re-organize all of the time. It seems to even happen multiple times a year!  When this happens, ownerships of documents and folders change hands.  Fortunately in the cloud we no longer need to move large file cabinets, just a few permission bits.  Help us streamline switching documents.

REQUIREMENTS

- This application will be written in Java and deployed to Google Application
- This library will be accessed from a Java servlet and will work asynchronously utilizing Google Task Queues.
- Provide one function
--- ChangePermissions(google docs URL, accountToChangeOwnerTo ) returns a list of files changed and unchanged.
--- This function will recursively change the owner for all files and folders recursively in the collection.- The most efficient way to accomplish this task is to use Task Queues.
- A named queue will be created for Folders and for files.
- The Folder queue logic will extract all files and add each file to the file queue.  If there is a sub folder, the logic will add the folder back to the folder queue.
- The File queue will change the file owner to the new account
--- Additionally the existing owners will be removed.- Create a queue or data store to store errors
--- Provide retry logic- Return a list of all files changed and a list of all files unchanges to the calling logic.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Upload all your source code as a zip and provide any documentation and/or instructions that are needed. Please be clear and concise with any setup instructions.

An SWF video of your application using Jing would also be helpful but not required.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

If code from this previous challenge helps, please let us know and we can share it.

PARTICIPATION

DISCUSSION

1. Develop a GAE-Java app with single servlet. 2. Invoking the servlet reads inputs (doc url, fromOwner, toOwner) and schedules asyn tasks in GAE 3. Task queue should read sub folders 4. GAE - data stroe should maintain list of errors and probably a servlet to report list of errors 5. Retry logic incase of failures. Please reply whether my understanding is correct or not. Also could you please share the previous challenge code ?

username5 , Apr 04, 2012 at 10:44 AM reply

1) yes I'll will post again when I can post the other code

mess (admin), Apr 04, 2012 at 12:18 PM

The code from the previous challenge seems useful. Can you post it? I understand we are trying to achieve the same but using Goggle Tasks Queue

romanosp , Apr 04, 2012 at 18:24 PM reply

https://github.com/cloudspokes/google-doc-reassign/

mess (admin), Apr 05, 2012 at 07:07 AM

can be written in Python?

soe , Apr 05, 2012 at 01:37 AM reply

It has to be in Java

mess (admin), Apr 05, 2012 at 18:02 PM

Here is some code that might be able to help you. http://cs-public.s3.amazonaws.com/challenges/1439/findFolderDescendants.java To sum it up, the function will be called with a folder id and new owner. The task queue processes wiil run as an admin account and will take control of the folder using impersonation by adding &xoauth_requestor_id=owner_email.domain.com to the URL.

mess (admin), Apr 05, 2012 at 18:08 PM

As Google Task Queues run in Async how come we return a "list of files changed and unchanged" ?

antenna , Apr 07, 2012 at 03:34 AM reply

You can use bigtable to store the results

mess (admin), Apr 07, 2012 at 11:28 AM

This service is desired as a standalone servlet, so how will authentication work ? Will the client pass un/pass in inbound request headers ?

antenna , Apr 07, 2012 at 03:36 AM reply

Yes

mess (admin), Apr 07, 2012 at 11:33 AM

Thanks Mess, this is going to be exciting this time, I see Romin registered for the challenge too :)

antenna , Apr 07, 2012 at 18:50 PM reply

PARTICIPATION

14 members participating with 13 registered

TECHNOLOGIES

Google | Java

WINNER SELECTED

Ended Apr 09, 2012 at 8:11 AM
Winner Announced on April 11, 2012
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PRIZES

Total: $2,750
1st $2,000
2nd $750

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