How to create a new workspace in Modeshape manually

[paolo.barberis.73]

We are working with this platform:

JBoss 6.1.0.GA

Modeshape 3.6.0

I just need to create a new workspace and to put inside images,javascripts, and other files I need for a webapp we are developing.

I tried to connect via webdav to our modeshape repository and create a new test directory inside, but I always receive this exception:

2015-02-03 16:47 WARN  [org.modeshape.web.jcr.webdav.ModeShapeWebdavStore] (http-/0.0.0.0:8021-1) Cannot obtain a session for the repository 'repository': The workspace test was not found

I looked on stackoverflow and on the official guide of modeshape, but I still cannot catch how to do this "easy" task.

It seems there's no documentation that explains how to manually create a new workspace in a repository.

Anybody has an idea of how to do this?

[rhauch]

Be sure that when logging in to get a Session that you specify the name of your workspace.

You can either configure it in the repository configuration; in your case, within the "standalone-modeshape.xml" of your EAP installation, or whatever EAP configuration file you're using. There's already an example in that file:

<repository name="artifacts">
  <!-- ... -->
  <!-- Define 3 workspaces to exist upon startup -->
  <workspaces default-workspace="default" allow-workspace-creation="false">
   <workspace name="default">
     <initial-content>initial-content-default.xml</initial-content>
   </workspace>
   <workspace name="other"/>
   <workspace name="extra"/>
  </workspaces>
  <!-- ... -->
<repository name="artifacts">

The same is true for Wildfly with ModeShape 4.x.

For those using ModeShape outside of EAP or Wildfly, you can configure this in your JSON repository configuration file. Here's a fragment that does the same thing as the XML fragment above:

"workspaces" : {
   "predefined" : ["other", "extra"],
   "default" : "default",
   "allowCreation" : true,
   "initialContent" : {
     "default" : "initial-content-default.xml"
   }
},

And finally, if your configuration allows workspace creation, you can programmatically create workspaces using the standard JCR API.

(I also answered your Stack Overflow question.)

[paolo.barberis.73]

Thanks,

I managed to make this work only upgrading the environment to:

JBoss 6.3 EAP and Modeshape 3.8.1