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How to read a file and its content programtically

yasir_mahmood — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:10:10 GMT

HiI have studied the alfresco sample to write and read the contents of file through sample ContentReadAndWrite in Alfreco SDK. There is statement Reference contentReference = ContentReadAndWrite.createNewContent(contentService, strFileName, strContents);This statement writes the new contents in the

Re: How to read a file and its content programtically

dgenard — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:49:55 GMT

ContentService makes it easy. Example :


ContentReader contentReader = contentService.getReader(sourceNodeRef, ContentModel.PROP_CONTENT);
String content = contentReader.getContentString();
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Denis

Re: How to read a file and its content programtically

yasir_mahmood — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:10:13 GMT

Thanks!
How to get 'sourceNodeRef' because method has only FileName as input.
how to get sourceNodeRef ?
Please do let me know.
Thanks

Re: How to read a file and its content programtically

dgenard — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:18:58 GMT

Look at other services like NodeService or SearchService which will provide methods to find a NodeRef.
Details on http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Java_API

Denis

Re: How to read a file and its content programtically

yasir_mahmood — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:40:40 GMT

I tried my best to find out how to use contentReader to read the contents of a file in the Alfreco repository. But I could not get help. I am very new to alfreco and working on very first opensource projecct. I request if some can help to read the content of file, given that we know the fileName.

Regards

Yasir Mahmood

Re: How to read a file and its content programtically

yasir_mahmood — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:39:14 GMT

I have done it. Here is the way…
Reference newContentReference = new Reference(STORE,nodeId,null);

             ContentServiceSoapBindingStub cs = WebServiceFactory.getContentService();
             Content[] readResult = cs.read(new Predicate(new Reference[]{newContentReference},STORE,null), Constants.PROP_CONTENT);
             Content content = readResult[0];

                   System.out.println(ContentUtils.getContentAsString(content));

Thanks to all those who participate in this post for help.

Regards
Yasir Mahmood