Accept docx and doc files

[AtKristijan]

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Description

Currently what i find out is that our last version of ricecooker ( develop branch ) do not support doc files. So we got one repo that can convert them but the problem is that you need to start docker and send post method to this service. Also this means that first you need to download all files and then convert it and then put it in ricecooker node > files.

What my Idea is:

What my idea is to use function in ricecooker with flag that if flag is True to convert files from one extension to another. And this to be made automatically in ricecooker without downloading first files locally and then to convert it.

In this function we need to implemented this new idea.
Files > write_path_to_filename or in download.

[rtibbles]

I think it would be good to detail how we would configure the doc/docx conversion service.

I think the assumption here is that there might be an instance of the learningequality/microwave service running on an accessible IP address (either online or locally) - so if you used a File of this kind, it would check if this service was available and otherwise fail.

Because we can't use the file type without this conversion, I don't think the option to convert is necessary, this WordFile class would just always try to convert?

[AtKristijan]

There is 2 options that i will explore.

1. To see if i can put whole microwave service inside ricecooker without need of starting it as service
2. To make health check and each developer will need to take care of starting the service locally and setup the path so ricecooker can access it. If ricecooker do not have access will fail or will ignore the files all depends how strict we want to make it.

[rtibbles]

I think 1) might be too difficult to achieve within the confines of a Python package, but definitely worth a little bit of investigation.