topic Re: Copying file contents in Alfresco Archive

Copying file contents

zladuric — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:04:43 GMT

Hello, I'm using Alfresco 3.0 community version, and I'm trying to copy the file content. I was reading the wiki JavaScript API page (among others), and I got the idea that I can do new_file.content = old_file.content‍IBut when I do this, the result is not a proper pdf file.Can somebody point to an

Re: Copying file contents

invictus9 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:50:49 GMT

When you say "it is not proper PDF", does this mean the content is mangled? There are notes in the Javascript API to indicate that the .content property is really only usable for text files, and PDF files are not text files.

You might be able to use the writer() method to pass the content through without mangling. I haven't tried it yet.

Re: Copying file contents

zladuric — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:06:00 GMT

Yes, that is what I meant. It actually doesn't even become mangled, I just get one blank page.
Now, writer() sounds interesting, I'll have a look. Or just plain old orig_file.copy(destination) or whatever the syntax. Although Alfresco was complaining about some missing properties or something last time I used that.

Thanks anyway!