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some CMIS apis using http methods not supported in flex

stevereiner — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:08:57 GMT

In working on "CMIS Spaces" based on FlexSpaces code, with Flex/ActionScript, and Alfresco 3 CMIS draft implementation, atom/rest apissome other CMIS things:1. only 16x16 icons, no 32 or 64.2. getChildren not sorted3. for learning would be good to provide sample xml files coming back from alfresco v

Re: some CMIS apis using http methods not supported in flex

stevereiner — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:35:50 GMT

Took out comment about wondering whether same cmis api calls work in parallel, things are fine for me with parallel calls both using sockets/as3httpclientlib or in a non sockets mode (HTTPService / URLLoader)

It looks like the CMIS uses http methods not supported normally in Flex (unless you use sockets or add a proxy)
i.e. PUT, DELETE see in the spec for some things

Does CMIS plan or already have a way of passing the method as arg (like web scripts) ?
(answer from Dave via twitter: proposal is to support the same method override as Google data api)

Re: some CMIS apis using http methods not supported in flex

stevereiner — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:02:34 GMT

Note on using method pass way as google data api
(which use X-HTTP-Method-Override: header to say what the real method is)
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/basics.html
and mention in CMIS spec

Flex doesn't support custom headers normally unless
1. need to have cross domain file with allow-http-request-headers-from domain=x headers=y,z
and
2. use instead of HTTPService
a. URLLoader (Flex+AIR)
b. Sockets (Flex+Browser, Flex+AIR)

(these seem to also what it takes to be able to use put, delete too)