webdav-start in background

[cbertelli]

If I start webdav in background as suggested:

$ python3.9 cli.py webdav-start --background

I get:

✅ Authentication verified
🔧 Creating WebDAV application...
🔍 WEBDAV: Initializing InternxtDAVProvider...
✅ WEBDAV: Provider initialized with credentials for: user@mail.com
🔧 Setting up server on localhost:3005...
🔧 Using WSGI server: waitress

🌐 WebDAV server starting on http://localhost:3005/
📁 Mount point: http://localhost:3005/
👤 Username: internxt
🔑 Password: internxt-webdav

🌐 Web interface available at: http://localhost:3005/

💡 Connection Instructions:
   1. Open Finder
   2. Press Cmd+K
   3. Enter server address: http://localhost:3005/
   4. Username: internxt
   5. Password: internxt-webdav

Press Ctrl+C to stop the server
❌ WebDAV server error: signal only works in main thread of the main interpreter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/internxt-cli/services/webdav_server.py", line 235, in _run_server_thread
    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/signal.py", line 56, in signal
    handler = _signal.signal(_enum_to_int(signalnum), _enum_to_int(handler))
ValueError: signal only works in main thread of the main interpreter
🛑 WebDAV server stopped
❌ Failed to start server in background

If I start it with

$ python3.9 cli.py webdav-start &

as usual for linux, I lose contact with the running process, so webdav-status, webdav-mount, webdav-stop do not recognize the running process and ask for a previous wedbav-start.

By the way, I suspect that waitress is responsible for not providing the COPY command that handles metadata besides copying the files.
Is there an alternative webdav server that handles it?

[CrispStrobe]

latest changes also attempted to fix this, but again little time to test it, does it work for you now?

[cbertelli]

Yes, now it works and it works well. I can choose the preferred webdav server, put it in background, get informations, stop it. Perfect!

[CrispStrobe]

Fixed several bugs: the signal handler now guards against non-main-thread calls (no more ValueError), and property_manager/lock_storage are now included in the start() config. Background mode is handled by the CLI spawning a subprocess, so webdav-start --background should work. The WebDAV COPY method for folders is now implemented via recursive download+re-upload.