/// <summary>
/// When the user updates the shared coordinates in the link model, Revit calls this
/// method. In this implementation, the updated local version of the link on the user's
/// machine is uploaded (copied) back to the server location.
/// </summary>
public void OnLocalLinkSharedCoordinatesSaved(ExternalResourceReference changedReference)
{
string localLinkPath = SampleExternalResourceDBServer.GetFullLinkCachedFilePath(changedReference);
string fullServerPath = SampleExternalResourceDBServer.GetFullServerLinkFilePath(changedReference);
String serverDirectoryName = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(fullServerPath);
if (!System.IO.Directory.Exists(serverDirectoryName))
{
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(serverDirectoryName);
}
System.IO.File.Copy(localLinkPath, fullServerPath, true); // Overwrite
}
/// <summary>
/// Registers an instance of a SampleExternalResourceDBServer with the ExternalService
/// of type ExternalResourceService.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="application">An object that is passed to the external application
/// which contains the controlled application.</param>
/// <returns>Return the status of the external application. A result of Succeeded
/// means that the external application was able to register the IExternalResourceServer.
/// </returns>
public ExternalDBApplicationResult OnStartup(ControlledApplication application)
{
// Get Revit's ExternalResourceService.
ExternalService externalResourceService = ExternalServiceRegistry.GetService(ExternalServices.BuiltInExternalServices.ExternalResourceService);
if (externalResourceService == null)
{
return(ExternalDBApplicationResult.Failed);
}
// Create an instance of your IExternalResourceServer and register it with the ExternalResourceService.
IExternalResourceServer sampleServer = new SampleExternalResourceDBServer();
externalResourceService.AddServer(sampleServer);
return(ExternalDBApplicationResult.Succeeded);
}
/// <summary>
/// This implementation simply retrieves the same local file name that the server
/// uses when first copying the link document to the user's machine.
/// </summary>
public string GetLocalPathForOpen(ExternalResourceReference desiredReference)
{
return(SampleExternalResourceDBServer.GetFullLinkCachedFilePath(desiredReference));
}