topic Re: Problem authenticating POST request in Alfresco Archive

Problem authenticating POST request

workingpeter — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:55:42 GMT

I have a web script based on the file upload example, using Community 2.9B. I am failing to get a form-based client to authenticate when issuing a POST to the web script. The script has the authentication attribute set to "user". After entering the basic auth credentials, the script executes but an

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

davidc — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:46:25 GMT

No, that may be a regression on 2.9. The Web Script f/w was refactored to support some stuff coming in 3.0, so bugs could have crept in.

Can you post a simple reproducible case? Thanks.

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

workingpeter — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:49:16 GMT

Only minor path changes to original file upload example from Web Script Examples doco. I just confirmed that this script works under AlfrescoEnterprise 2.1.1 Linux, but under AlfrescoCommunity 2.9.0 Linux fails with org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError - ReferenceError: "companyhome" is not defined. (AlfrescoScript#33).
Note I haven't attempted 2.1 as the formdata JS variable does not seem to be available.

Descriptor


<webscript>
  <shortname>File Upload</shortname>
  <description>Upload file content and meta-data into Repository</description>
  <url>/media/asset/upload</url>
  <format default="html">argument</format>
  <authentication>user</authentication>
</webscript>
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Script


var filename = null;
var content = null;
var title = "";
var description = "";

// locate file attributes
for each (field in formdata.fields)
{
  if (field.name == "title")
  {
    title = field.value;
  }
  else if (field.name == "desc")
  {
    description = field.value;
  }
  else if (field.name == "file" && field.isFile)
  {
    filename = field.filename;
    content = field.content;
  }
}

// ensure mandatory file attributes have been located
if (filename == undefined || content == undefined)
{
  status.code = 400;
  status.message = "Uploaded file cannot be located in request";
  status.redirect = true;
}
else
{
  var folder = companyhome.childByNamePath("Media/Projects");
  upload = folder.createFile("asset" + folder.children.length + "_" + filename) ;
  upload.properties.content.write(content);
  upload.properties.content.mimetype = "UTF-8";
  upload.properties.title = title;
  upload.properties.description = description;
  upload.save();
 
  // setup model for response template
  model.upload = upload;
}
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Template


<html>
 <head> 
   <title>Upload Web Script Sample</title> 
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="${url.context}/css/main.css" TYPE="text/css">
 </head>
 <body>
   <table>
     <tr>
       <td><img src="${url.context}/images/logo/AlfrescoLogo32.png" alt="Alfresco" /></td>
       <td><nobr>Upload Web Script Sample</nobr></td>
     </tr>
     <tr><td><td>Alfresco ${server.edition} v${server.version}
     <tr><td><td> 
     <tr><td><td>Uploaded <a href="${url.serviceContext}/sample/folder${upload.displayPath}">${upload.name}</a> of size ${upload.properties.content.size}.
   </table>
 </body>
</html>
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HTML form


<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
    <title>File Upload</title>
   </head>
<body>
    <form method="POST" name="uploadForm" enctype='multipart/form-data' id="upload_form" action="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/media/asset/upload">
        <input type="hidden" name="projectName" id="uploadProjectName" value="testing project name"/>

        <label>
            Name:
        </label>
        <br/>
        <input type="text" name="title" id="title_input"/><p/>
        <label>
            Description:
        </label>
        <br/>
        <textarea name="desc" id="desc_input"></textarea>

        <p/>
        <label>
            File:
        </label>
        <br/>
        <input class="button" type="file" name="file" id="file_input"/><p/>
      <input class="button" type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload"/>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
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Exception

 
Failed to execute script 'workspace://SpacesStore//Company Home/Data Dictionary/Web Scripts Extensions/com/dius/upload.post.js': Failed to execute script 'workspace://SpacesStore//Company Home/Data Dictionary/Web Scripts Extensions/com/dius/upload.post.js': ReferenceError: "companyhome" is not defined. (AlfrescoScript#33)
 
Exception:   org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError - ReferenceError: "companyhome" is not defined. (AlfrescoScript#33)
    
   org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.constructError(ScriptRuntime.java:3350)
   org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.constructError(ScriptRuntime.java:3340)
   org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.notFoundError(ScriptRuntime.java:3413)
   org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.name(ScriptRuntime.java:1612)
   org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c2._c0(AlfrescoScript:33)
   org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c2.call(AlfrescoScript)
   org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.doTopCall(ContextFactory.java:393)
   org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.doTopCall(ScriptRuntime.java:2834)
   org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c2.call(AlfrescoScript)
   org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c2.exec(AlfrescoScript)
   org.mozilla.javascript.Context.evaluateString(Context.java:1196)
   org.alfresco.repo.jscript.RhinoScriptProcessor.executeScriptImpl(RhinoScriptProcessor.java:516)
   org.alfresco.repo.jscript.RhinoScriptProcessor.execute(RhinoScriptProcessor.java:115)
   org.alfresco.repo.processor.ScriptServiceImpl.executeScript(ScriptServiceImpl.java:243)
   org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryScriptProcessor.executeScript(RepositoryScriptProcessor.java:108)
   org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractWebScript.executeScript(AbstractWebScript.java:471)
   org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeWebScript.execute(DeclarativeWebScript.java:109)
   org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer$1.execute(RepositoryContainer.java:275)
   org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:236)
   org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:166)
   org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecute(RepositoryContainer.java:286)
   org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.executeScript(RepositoryContainer.java:230)
   org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:227)
   org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:130)
   org.alfresco.web.scripts.servlet.WebScriptServlet.service(WebScriptServlet.java:108)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
   org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
   org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
   org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
   org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
   org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
   org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
   org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
   org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
   org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
   org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
   org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
   org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
   java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
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Re: Problem authenticating POST request

davidc — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:07:17 GMT

Thanks - let me reproduce.

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

davidc — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:18:15 GMT

I've been able to execute this script on the latest HEAD.

Can you make sure you have appropriate permissions set on Company Home.

Also, I've noticed that Firefox 3 beta 2 is unreliable when a POST responds with 401 (unauthorized). Which browser are you using?

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

workingpeter — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:47:58 GMT

David,

I've been able to execute the script successfully on a Mac! So using AlfrescoCommunity 2.9.0B failed on Linux but works on Mac. Both tests were with Firefox 2.0.0 and permissions on Company Home the same (everyone consumer, authenticating as admin). I've only tested from an HTML form so I guess the browser comes into play. I will be moving to an Ajax client, so if anything else comes up I'll repost. Thanks for your responses.

Peter

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

eg — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:02:20 GMT

Hi -

I tried the code in the example and got an error in the JS about formdata not being defined.

Is this because I am running the community edition (2.1)? Do I need to be running the enterprise edition in order to avail of the file upload feature within Web Scripts?

Thanks,

ERROR DETAILS

500 Description: An error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Message: Failed to execute script 'C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts\com\cdi\Upload.post.js': Failed to execute script 'C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts\com\cdi\Upload.post.js': ReferenceError: "formdata" is not defined. (AlfrescoScript#7)

Exception: org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError - ReferenceError: "formdata" is not defined. (AlfrescoScript#7)

org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.constructError(ScriptRuntime.java:3226)
org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.constructError(ScriptRuntime.java:3216)
org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.notFoundError(ScriptRuntime.java:3289)
org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.name(ScriptRuntime.java:1567)
org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpretLoop(Interpreter.java:3159)
org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpret(Interpreter.java:2248)
org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.call(InterpretedFunction.java:158)
org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.doTopCall(ContextFactory.java:337)
org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.doTopCall(ScriptRuntime.java:2755)
org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.exec(InterpretedFunction.java:169)
org.mozilla.javascript.Context.evaluateString(Context.java:1144)
org.alfresco.repo.jscript.RhinoScriptProcessor.executeScriptImpl(RhinoScriptProcessor.java:510)
org.alfresco.repo.jscript.RhinoScriptProcessor.execute(RhinoScriptProcessor.java:112)
org.alfresco.repo.processor.ScriptServiceImpl.executeScript(ScriptServiceImpl.java:242)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor271.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:281)
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:187)
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:154)
org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.AlwaysProceedMethodInterceptor.invoke(AlwaysProceedMethodInterceptor.java:40)
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.invoke(ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.java:49)
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
org.alfresco.repo.audit.AuditComponentImpl.auditImpl(AuditComponentImpl.java:256)
org.alfresco.repo.audit.AuditComponentImpl.audit(AuditComponentImpl.java:191)
org.alfresco.repo.audit.AuditMethodInterceptor.invoke(AuditMethodInterceptor.java:69)
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:107)
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)
$Proxy48.executeScript(Unknown Source)
org.alfresco.web.scripts.ScriptProcessor.executeScript(ScriptProcessor.java:108)
org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractWebScript.executeScript(AbstractWebScript.java:537)
org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeWebScript.execute(DeclarativeWebScript.java:115)
org.alfresco.web.scripts.WebScriptRuntime.wrappedExecute(WebScriptRuntime.java:342)
org.alfresco.web.scripts.WebScriptRuntime.authenticatedExecute(WebScriptRuntime.java:308)
org.alfresco.web.scripts.WebScriptRuntime$1.execute(WebScriptRuntime.java:163)
org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:225)
org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:155)
org.alfresco.web.scripts.WebScriptRuntime.executeScript(WebScriptRuntime.java:174)
org.alfresco.web.scripts.WebScriptServlet.service(WebScriptServlet.java:109)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Exception: org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException - ReferenceError: "formdata" is not defined. (AlfrescoScript#7)

org.alfresco.repo.jscript.RhinoScriptProcessor.executeScriptImpl(RhinoScriptProcessor.java:518)

Exception: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ScriptException - Failed to execute script 'C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts\com\cdi\Upload.post.js': ReferenceError: "formdata" is not defined. (AlfrescoScript#7)

org.alfresco.repo.jscript.RhinoScriptProcessor.execute(RhinoScriptProcessor.java:116)

Exception: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ScriptException - Failed to execute script 'C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts\com\cdi\Upload.post.js': Failed to execute script 'C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts\com\cdi\Upload.post.js': ReferenceError: "formdata" is not defined. (AlfrescoScript#7)

org.alfresco.repo.processor.ScriptServiceImpl.executeScript(ScriptServiceImpl.java:246)

Server: Alfresco Community Network v2.1.0 (482) schema 64
Time: Feb 7, 2008 3:58:31 PM

Diagnostics: Inspect Web Script (com/cdi/Upload.post)

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

workingpeter — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:34:35 GMT

The formdata variable is not available in 2.1. It was introduced into the Enterprise version initially and has made its way into Community 2.9.

As a migration note, when I moved from 2.1 to 2.9 for this very reason I found that roothome is not available unless the script execution is authenticated (in 2.1 guest execution has access to roothome).

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

eg — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:51:00 GMT

Thanks. Do you know if formdata is available in 2.1.1 Enterprise version?

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

workingpeter — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:14:24 GMT

Yes it is.

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

leoputz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:16:38 GMT

someone found a solution?

Im with the same problem using get…. with post and delete its ok….

but when i try to use get method … appears the problem (company home is not defined) i tried using root … and the problem persist…

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

rosemaryl — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:24:56 GMT

Hi leoputz,
I just skimmed your entire thread since I'm looking for a solution for a different problem I'm having, but have you taken a look at this post http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?p=35267 ? The wiki page (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API#Root_Scope_Objects) says that you can only access certain root scope objects through a rule/action, in the Web-Client or through the Script Command Processor. For webscripts the aforementioned forum post suggests passing in companyhome as a parameter.

If I'm totally off, my apologies – like I said I didn't read the entire post.

Best of luck.

~Rosemary

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

sanket — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:16:52 GMT

Hi, I am getting the following error.
org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError: ReferenceError: "formdata" is not defined.

File: upload.post.js
Line: for each (field in formdata.fields)

I have tried to check on safari, IE and mozilla. Its not working.
Version i am using is Alfresco3.2

Is "formdata" available in this version ?
Or its some other problem ?

Please help.

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

gyro_gearless — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:56:14 GMT

Hi,I suppose you only get the 'formdata' field if you are doing a POST with encoding set to "multipart/form-data", for example from an HTML page:

<form action="127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco/service/hau/mich/blau" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
…
</form>
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HTH

Gyro

Re: Problem authenticating POST request

sanket — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:09:35 GMT

Yes I have already done that.