Functions to retrieve / add tags/favorites on files (OC 8)

[PVince81]

Since OC 8 it is possible to tag files (arbitrary tags or favorites).

pyocclient should be extended with functions to get/set tags from files.

To read tags from files: the PROPFIND needs to explicitly request the "oc:tags" and "oc:favorite" fields.
I suggest to add an extra optional keyword argument "include_fields = tags" to the "list" functions.

To set tags on files, need to use PROPPATCH and pass the appropriate "oc:tags" and "oc:favorite" elements.

[soalhn]

If the functionality works as expected, then I think it is a very nice feature to have 😄
Btw, I didn't even know that there is already some work done on OC 8 😉

[PVince81]

See top item here https://github.com/owncloud/core/wiki/ownCloud-8-Features 😄
I'll keep the PR open until after OC 8 is released. Probably something for pyocclient 0.3 or 0.4

[shanehull]

Has there been any further thoughts on this? I tried to implement it myself, but then read your post on explicitly requesting the 'oc:tags' and 'oc:favorite'.

If you have any pointers on how you wanted to implement this, I can give it a shot.

[PVince81]

the pointers are already in the first post

first need to extend list and file_info with optional extra args webdav_props that take in an arbitrary list of Webdav properties to be queried while querying the list/info.

then to request the tags, you could call list(..., webdav_props=['{owncloud.org/ns}tags', '{owncloud.org/ns}favorite']) to have those properties included in the result set.