NEWS

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webdav 0.2.0 (2026-04-07)

Breaking Changes

• check_and_load_package() is now deprecated. All required packages are declared in DESCRIPTION and loaded automatically by R. Calling this function will issue a deprecation warning.

Enhancements

• Migrated all user-facing messages from message() / stop() to the cli package (cli::cli_inform(), cli::cli_alert_success(), cli::cli_warn(), cli::cli_abort()), providing richer formatted output with semantic markup for URLs, file paths, and argument names.
• Added cli to Imports in DESCRIPTION.
• Added httr2::resp_status() import to NAMESPACE.
• Fixed handle_response() to use httr2::resp_status() instead of the legacy response$status_code accessor (httr v1 syntax).
• Removed redundant runtime calls to check_and_load_package() inside all exported functions — dependencies declared in Imports are guaranteed to be available and do not need manual loading.

Authors

• Added Marcos Wasilew, Carlos Amorin as authors.
• Fixed Hugo Vasconcelos surname spelling.

webdav 0.1.6 (2025-07-17)

Enhancements

• Major improvements to the webdav_list_files() function for better compatibility and robustness:
  • Now dynamically detects and uses the correct XML namespace prefix from the server (d, D, or other), preventing XPath errors like Undefined namespace prefix.
  • Uses xml2::as_list() to reliably parse the XML response structure.
  • Ensures content_length is safely parsed and padded with NA where missing (e.g., for directories), preventing errors when creating the resulting tibble.
  • Adds a new field is_folder, correctly identifying whether each resource is a directory.
  • Improved documentation and output consistency with more informative column names (e.g., display_name, full_path, creation_date, etc.).

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Adrian Jusepeitis (University of Jena, Germany) for reporting two key issues related to XML namespace parsing and missing metadata in webdav_list_files(), and for proposing initial fixes that inspired the improvements in this release.

webdav 0.1.4 (2025-02-13)

• Changed the license to MIT
• Adjusted the time limits in the examples
• Added an internet connection test to ensure network availability

webdav 0.1.3 (2025-01-08)

• Expose lastmodified and contentlength via webdav_list_files. Idea from Benjamin Buchwitz (bchwtz) issue: https://github.com/StrategicProjects/webdav/issues/1

webdav 0.1.2 (2024-12-02)

• [New Feature] Added a new function webdav_download_file() to download files from a WebDAV server to a local directory.

  • This function allows users to specify a file on the server and download it to a specified local path.
  • Verbose mode (verbose = TRUE) provides detailed output of the download process, including the file path on the server and local destination.

• Added examples using demo WebDav server.

webdav 0.1.1 (2024-10-08)

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.