topic Re: Steps to consume web services in Alfresco Archive

Steps to consume web services

pal1984 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:29:04 GMT

I am trying to consume WSDL/web sevices provided by Alfresco. But Those are not getting consumed prperly. I am facing some errros out there. Can anyone please let me know what are the stpes to consume WSDL provided by alfresco? What is the WSSE headers? Is is always mandatory to use?here is teh erro

Re: Steps to consume web services

amit10may — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:05:04 GMT

For webservices you need alfresco-web-service-client-3.2.jar
As far as the usage is concerned, you need to do followiing steps -

1) Set endpoint address of API - WebServiceFactory.setEndpointAddress(endPointUrl);
2)Start session - AuthenticationUtils.startSession(serverUsername, serverPassword);
3) Get required service - WebServiceFactory.getRepositoryService(); or WebServiceFactory.getContentService(); or any other - read APIs/Javadocs for this
4) Perform required APIs on the service
5) End session - AuthenticationUtils.endSession();

Regards,
Amit

Re: Steps to consume web services

_valerio_ — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:17:30 GMT

1) Set endpoint address of API - WebServiceFactory.setEndpointAddress(endPointUrl);
2)Start session - AuthenticationUtils.startSession(serverUsername, serverPassword);
3) Get required service - WebServiceFactory.getRepositoryService(); or WebServiceFactory.getContentService(); or any other - read APIs/Javadocs for this
4) Perform required APIs on the service
5) End session - AuthenticationUtils.endSession();

hi amit10may
please could you post a complete example to let me understand better the things you wrote?

I thought to do a code like this:


import org.alfresco.webservice.content.Content;
import org.alfresco.webservice.content.ContentServiceSoapBindingStub;
import org.alfresco.webservice.repository.UpdateResult;
import org.alfresco.webservice.types.*;
import org.alfresco.webservice.util.AuthenticationUtils;
import org.alfresco.webservice.util.Constants;
import org.alfresco.webservice.util.Utils;
import org.alfresco.webservice.util.WebServiceFactory; 
import java.io.File; 
import static java.io.File.separatorChar; 
import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; 
import java.io.InputStream; 
import java.util.*; 

String alfrescoWsUrl = "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api";
WebServiceFactory.setEndpointAddress(alfrescoWsUrl);
AuthenticationUtils.startSession("admin", "admin");

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????????
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AuthenticationUtils.endSession();
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but I don't know:
- how to fill the fields marked with ????? ?
- with what kind of extension to save the script ? (I thought .js, isn't so?)
- where to place this file ?

could you help me, please?

Re: Steps to consume web services

openpj — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:24:58 GMT

In the Alfresco SDK, you can find a complete example of using the Web Services API.
I suggest you to take at look at it :wink:

Hope this helps.

Re: Steps to consume web services

_valerio_ — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:33:30 GMT

hi OpenPj, thanks for your reply.
In SDK I found the example you mentioned:
-Categories
-CheckOutCheckIn
-CMLUpdates
-ContentReadAndWrite
-Query1
-Query2
-SamplesBase
but I didn't understand how to consume these examples, where to find them in my Alfresco and how to develop and deploy one ws of mine.
I hope someone could help me, because I think the wiki pages takles these issues superficially

thanks

Re: Steps to consume web services

mwildam — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:41:46 GMT

but I didn't understand how to consume these examples, where to find them in my Alfresco and how to develop and deploy one ws of mine.

I either did not find out how to run them (but I am on NetBeans and I know that Alfresco is built on Eclipse) - although there is an import tool, I prefered creating my own code and just used the examples as input how to do it (approximately).

I hope someone could help me, because I think the wiki pages takles these issues superficially

Indeed for a newcomer the Wiki informaion is in general quite superficial. I am still on finding out some needed things by trial and error.

BTW: Category handling is not mentioned in the samples how to deal with them.