topic Re: Custom RESTfull services using CMIS in Alfresco Archive

Custom RESTfull services using CMIS

mastro — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:14:33 GMT

Hi,I need to define a custom model, it will have an UI in Share and I need to expose a read only unauthenticated REST service on my custom types.I've read the very good guide of Jeff Pott at this link: http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/01/09/1509It's perfect but I don't know how to use the cmis

Re: Custom RESTfull services using CMIS

jpotts — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:12:01 GMT

Here is an example controller (test.get.js):

var cmisConnection = cmis.getConnection();
var cmisSession    = cmisConnection.getSession();
folder = cmisSession.getRootFolder();
model.folder = folder;‍‍‍‍

Obviously this isn't too intense. The goal is just to show you how to get the cmis root object. What you do from there is up to you. For example, you could iterate over a folder like this:

var iter = folder.getChildren().iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
  logger.log(iter.next().name);
}‍‍‍‍

Here is an example descriptor (test.get.desc.xml):

<webscript>
   <shortname>Test CMIS Object</shortname>
   <description>Test CMIS Object</description>
   <url>/someco/testcmis</url>
   <authentication>user</authentication>
</webscript>‍‍‍‍‍‍

And here is an example view (test.get.html.ftl):

<html>
<body>
Folder name:${folder.name}<br />
Folder id:${folder.id}</br />
</body>
</html>‍‍‍‍‍‍

As I mentioned on IRC this morning, the root scoped cmis object appears to be broken in Alfresco 4.0.c Community.

Hope that gets you started.

Jeff

Re: Custom RESTfull services using CMIS

mastro — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:21:07 GMT

Thanks Jeff

do I need user authentication to use cmis?
I need to provide a read-only (get only) non-authenticated RESTfull service

Yes I remember you saying it was broken on the .c community release, I'll take it in mind and try with a 3.x community if I have any issue.

Is there a documentation (API) about that cmis javascript object?

thanks