topic Wrong locale with the Java Web service in Alfresco Archive

Wrong locale with the Java Web service

elvo — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:28:05 GMT

Hi everyone,I'm having some issues with my Alfresco Community 3.4d and I'd like to know if I have done something wrong, or forgotten to do something important.I've installed Alfresco and Share on a server and configured them to suit my needs. No issue here: new aspect, custom properties… Then, I've

Re: Wrong locale with the Java Web service

loftux — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:30:24 GMT

You have hit one of the most annoying features in Alfresco: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-3756
The issue filed there is marked as resolved… it is not.

For documents, you can just skip using those fields, and create your own non multilingual text fields, and update your forms for those fields.
Unfortunately the title and description are "hardcoded" in Share document listings, so you wont see your custom fields there, unless you do some coding. In 4.0 this can be done with mostly config.

Re: Wrong locale with the Java Web service

elvo — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:29:18 GMT

Thank you for your response and for the link.

I think I've found a temporary fix, but I'd like your opinion on it. Looking at the source code of the API (for know I'm only interested in the Web service calls), I've found that there is no call to I18NUtil.setContentLocale to indicate the desired user's locale in any of the implemented Web methods. I've put together a filter for all of the Web service API and forcing the content language to fr (French) and it works. Same thing when I intentionally set the content language in the filter to en (English), even though that's not what I'm interested in right now .

I think that solves my problem, but it's not as good as I want it to be. The best way (I think) would be to use the Content Language Filter from the user logged in with the Authentication Web Service. Do you know any way to access the user's preference from a filter with the Web service API?

Thanks in advance,

Re: Wrong locale with the Java Web service

loftux — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:39:12 GMT

Sorry, can't give an opinion on your suggested workaround since I havent worked with web services at all. Hopefully someone who has can jump in and give an opinion.
What is good news is that the issue was reopened yesterday so eventually we will get a fix for this.