topic Re: Tagging and searching via the WS API in Alfresco Archive

Tagging and searching via the WS API

dbratton — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:20:02 GMT

I've been playing around with the WS API a bit, looking at potential integration points for our software, and had a quick question: One of the major issues for us is tagging and searching in integrated DMSs - how could this be accomplished in Alfresco? So far I've managed to search on text, title, e

Re: Tagging and searching via the WS API

mrogers — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:15:32 GMT

There are tagging web scripts that you may also like to take a look at.

Re: Tagging and searching via the WS API

dbratton — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:12:36 GMT

There are tagging web scripts that you may also like to take a look at.

Those look interesting, and I've been playing around with them a bit. I'm still curious whether or not tagging and searching on tags is possible via web services though - any integration we do would need to go in via that route, the same way we do with other supported DMSs.

Re: Tagging and searching via the WS API

dbratton — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:52:38 GMT

Can I take the lack of response on this to mean that tagging and searching on tags isn't possible via the WS API?

If not I'll look into the Restful stuff, but without WS it's doubtful that we'll be able to support Alfresco as an OSS alternative for at least our next several releases.

Re: Tagging and searching via the WS API

mrogers — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:07:24 GMT

Or you can add your own Web Services into Alfresco. That delegate to the Java or Java Script Interfaces.

AFAIK tagging is not yet exposed on the Web Services, however I'm fairly sure Search is and there is a new CMIS search interface which is exposed via Web Services so that should give you the search functionality you need.

Re: Tagging and searching via the WS API

dbratton — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:24:03 GMT

Or you can add your own Web Services into Alfresco. That delegate to the Java or Java Script Interfaces.

AFAIK tagging is not yet exposed on the Web Services, however I'm fairly sure Search is and there is a new CMIS search interface which is exposed via Web Services so that should give you the search functionality you need.

Ok, good to know. We don't distribute Alfresco with our product, only provide support for a variety of DMSs that our clients may or may not use. We're using a standard WS approach for all DMSs at the moment, so going about things via Rest or JS would involve a bit more modification to the codebase than we have time for at the moment - I'll add it to the requirements for our future releases though.

Thanks for the info, it's very helpful.