Temporary files lock

Files Lock allows your users to temporary lock a file to avoid other users' edits.
By default, files locked using this app will be unlocked after 30 minutes.

Settings

Administrators can change the time of the maximum lock time in minutes (30) using the command:

./occ config:app:set --value '30' files_lock lock_timeout

Locks have no expiry by default.

More commands

Administrators can also lock files using the ./occ command:

./occ files:lock <fileId> [<lockOwner>] [--status] [--unlock]

API

Locks are separated into three different types:

• 0 User owned manual lock: This lock type is initiated by a user manually through the WebUI or Clients and will limit editing capabilities on the file to the lock owning user.
• 1 App owned lock: This lock type is created by collaborative apps like Text or Office to avoid outside changes through WevDAV or other apps.
• 2 Token owned lock: (not implemented yet) This lock type will bind the ownership to the provided lock token. Any request that aims to modify the file will be required to sent the token, the user itself is not able to write to files without the token. This will allow to limit the locking to an individual client.

Capability

If locking is available the app will expose itself through the capabilties endpoint under the files key:

curl http://admin:admin@nextcloud.local/ocs/v1.php/cloud/capabilities\?format\=json \
	-H 'OCS-APIRequest: true' \
	| jq .ocs.data.capabilities.files
{
  ...
  "locking": "1.0",
  ...
}

WebDAV: Fetching lock details

WebDAV returns the following additional properties if requests through a PROPFIND:

• {http://nextcloud.org/ns}lock: true if the file is locked, otherwise false
• {http://nextcloud.org/ns}lock-owner-type: User id of the lock owner
  • 0 represents a manual lock by a user
  • 1 represents a collaboratively locked file, e.g. when being edited through Office or Text
  • 2 represents a WebDAV lock identified by a lock token, which will have the other properties set as if it was type 0
• {http://nextcloud.org/ns}lock-owner: User id of the lock owner
• {http://nextcloud.org/ns}lock-owner-displayname: Display name of the lock owner
• {http://nextcloud.org/ns}lock-owner-editor: App id of an app owned lock to allow clients to suggest joining the collaborative editing session through the web or direct editing
• {http://nextcloud.org/ns}lock-time: Timestamp of the log creation time
• {http://nextcloud.org/ns}lock-timeout: TTL of the lock in seconds staring from the creation time
• {http://nextcloud.org/ns}lock-token: Unique lock token (to be preserved on the client side while holding the lock to sent once full webdav locking is implemented)

curl -X PROPFIND \
  --url http://admin:admin@nextcloud.dev.local/remote.php/dav/files/admin/myfile.odt \
  --data '<D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:NC="http://nextcloud.org/ns">
	<D:prop>
		<NC:lock />
		<NC:lock-owner-type />
		<NC:lock-owner />
		<NC:lock-owner-displayname />
		<NC:lock-owner-editor />
		<NC:lock-time />
	</D:prop>
</D:propfind>'

WebDAV: Manually lock a file

curl -X LOCK \
  --url http://admin:admin@nextcloud.dev.local/remote.php/dav/files/admin/myfile.odt \
  --header 'X-User-Lock: 1'

Response

The response will give back the updated properties after obtaining the lock with a 200 Success status code or the existing lock details in case of a 423 Locked status.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<d:prop
	xmlns:d="DAV:"
	xmlns:s="http://sabredav.org/ns"
	xmlns:oc="http://owncloud.org/ns"
	xmlns:nc="http://nextcloud.org/ns">
	<nc:lock>1</nc:lock>
	<nc:lock-owner-type>0</nc:lock-owner-type>
	<nc:lock-owner>user1</nc:lock-owner>
	<nc:lock-owner-displayname>user1</nc:lock-owner-displayname>
	<nc:lock-owner-editor>user1</nc:lock-owner-editor>
	<nc:lock-time>1648046707</nc:lock-time>
</d:prop>

Error status codes

• 423 Unable to unlock, if the lock is owned by another user

WebDAV: Manually unlock a file

curl -X UNLOCK \
  --url http://admin:admin@nextcloud.dev.local/remote.php/dav/files/admin/myfile.odt \
  --header 'X-User-Lock: 1'

Response

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<d:prop
	xmlns:d="DAV:"
	xmlns:s="http://sabredav.org/ns"
	xmlns:oc="http://owncloud.org/ns"
	xmlns:nc="http://nextcloud.org/ns">
	<nc:lock></nc:lock>
	<nc:lock-owner-type/>
	<nc:lock-owner/>
	<nc:lock-owner-displayname/>
	<nc:lock-owner-editor/>
	<nc:lock-time/>
</d:prop>

Error status codes

• 412 Unable to unlock because the file is not locked
• 423 Unable to unlock, if the lock is owned by another user

OCS: Locking a file

PUT /apps/files_lock/lock/{fileId}

curl -X PUT 'http://admin:admin@nextcloud.local/ocs/v2.php/apps/files_lock/lock/123' -H 'OCS-APIREQUEST: true'`

Success

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
 <meta>
  <status>ok</status>
  <statuscode>200</statuscode>
  <message>OK</message>
 </meta>
</ocs>

Failure

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
 <meta>
  <status>failure</status>
  <statuscode>500</statuscode>
  <message/>
 </meta>
 <data>
  <status>-1</status>
  <exception>OCA\FilesLock\Exceptions\AlreadyLockedException</exception>
  <message>File is already locked by admin</message>
 </data>
</ocs>

OCS: Unlocking a file

DELETE /apps/files_lock/lock/{fileId}

curl -X DELETE 'http://admin:admin@nextcloud.local/ocs/v2.php/apps/files_lock/lock/123' -H 'OCS-APIREQUEST: true'

Success

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
 <meta>
  <status>ok</status>
  <statuscode>200</statuscode>
  <message>OK</message>
 </meta>
</ocs>

Failure

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
 <meta>
  <status>failure</status>
  <statuscode>500</statuscode>
  <message/>
 </meta>
 <data>
  <status>-1</status>
  <exception>OCA\FilesLock\Exceptions\LockNotFoundException</exception>
  <message></message>
 </data>
</ocs>