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CMIS REST upload problem with non octet-stream content

iblanco — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:36:21 GMT

I've developed ( copy pasted from different examples ) a little proof of concept that uploads a file to an Alfresco repository using CMIS's REST API. It works for content that has type "application/octet-stream" (which is the default content type), but for other content types the file is created in

Re: CMIS REST upload problem with non octet-stream content

syberyan — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:16:13 GMT

Alfresco doesn't expect XML content to be base64 encoded. It should be plain text.
I had the same problem a while ago 😉

Cheers,
Chris

Re: CMIS REST upload problem with non octet-stream content

iblanco — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:30:09 GMT

Hy syberyan,

Thanks for your answer. I've checked not encoding the content when it is of XML type but not luck.

I have tried 3 different ways:

1.- Just put the content "as is", and I get a 500 Server error.

That is normal due to the fact that the CMIS API tries to "interpret" my XML which is not valid atom.

2.- Adding a CDATA enclosuer.

It does not give an error but the uploaded content node is empty.

3.- Scaping the XML with Apache's "common-langs" libraries escapeXml function.

It does not give an error but the uploaded content node is empty.

After all, even if Alfresco does not expect XML content to be BASE64 encoded it should at least put the content into the node, even if it was without decoding. Is there any special property I should add to the CMIS request entry so that I can upload plain text files and xmls ?

Thanks.

Re: CMIS REST upload problem with non octet-stream content

syberyan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:31:21 GMT

I dumped my atom entry going over the wire, maybe this can help you:
(This is created with an abdera client)
(Using alfresco 3.2 preview 2)

<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <title type="text">blabla.xml</title>
    <summary type="text">Summarize summarize…</summary>
    <content type="text/xml">
        <myxml xmlns="">blabla</myxml>
    </content>
    <object xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/core/200901">
        <properties>
            <propertyString xmlns:axis2ns1="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/core/200901"
                            axis2ns1:name="ObjectTypeId">
                <value>document</value>
            </propertyString>
        </properties>
    </object>
</entry>