topic Re: ticket and webscripts in Alfresco Archive

ticket and webscripts

eg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:59:56 GMT

I have a web script, 'GetDocuments', that returns a list of documents from a space that has CompanyHome as its top-level parent. In order to be able to "see" things under company home the webscript needs to be authenticated. I can set the authentication mode to user/guest/.. etc and when I execute

Re: ticket and webscripts

stevewickii — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:52:48 GMT

I'm surprised you haven't received an answer to this question yet. I have the same question/problem. The "companyhome" root object is not available when you set authentication to guest or none. I'll let you know if I find out anything. From the JavaScript/WebScript documentation at wiki.alfresco.com, I don't believe it is possible to authenticate using a webscript. You may have to write a quick servlet Filter that invokes AuthenticationUtils.startSession(username, password) and places the ticket into session.

Re: ticket and webscripts

mikeh — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:55:30 GMT

The login webscript / append ticket method will work fine using "user" authentication.

The ticket should be passed in the alf_ticket parameter using the "/service" webscript servlet.

Mike

Re: ticket and webscripts

louise — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:59:55 GMT

Is this possible to verify validity of a ticket?

I couldn't find solution yet, but should be helpful…

Re: ticket and webscripts

mikeh — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:54:12 GMT

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/HTTP_API_Reference#Package:_.2Forg.2Falfresco.2Frepository

If you make a GET request to /service/api/login/ticket/TICKET_… you'll either get back an HTTP 404 or 200 OK plus the ticket in the body.

Thanks,
Mike