topic Re: mltext in Web Quick Start in Alfresco Archive

mltext in Web Quick Start

aussen2 — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:56:51 GMT

In the website I am building on top of Web Quick Start (Alfresco 3.4d) I have two different kinds on multilingual web assets.a) Assets that require translations of it's metadata as well as its content (e.g. text articles)b) Assets that have the same content in every language but require translations

Re: mltext in Web Quick Start

bremmington — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:25:22 GMT

No, there is nothing in the current development plan that would offer better support for MLText properties. Sorry.

Re: mltext in Web Quick Start

aussen2 — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:25:27 GMT

I was going to ask if it would work to extend the ApplicationDataInterceptor of the WQS web app so that it would change the locale setting based on the path information. But now I found that there already is such a functionality implemented in HEAD. So my question now is: How could I get this locale information included in the WQS API calls to the repository? I would like to use it as an additional request parameter in the WQS module web scripts so that I could modify these to return the content of my ml:text fields for the requested locale instead of the default server locale. Any hint would be appreciated.

Re: mltext in Web Quick Start

bremmington — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:19:20 GMT

Sorry - missed this question.

Rather than doing what you are suggesting, I would tend to alter the WQS REST API so that it returns all the MLText values for each MLText property on each requested node, and then put the logic for selecting the correct value into the WQS client API layer. This would mean all the asset caching in the client API would continue to work usefully.

To describe exactly what would need to change to make this work is beyond the time I have available right now, but the areas to look at would include:

The node service implementation used by the AssetGet webscript (the current one interprets MLText values into single text values)

The AssetSerializerXmlImpl and AssetDeserializerXmlImpl classes to marshal/unmarshal MLText objects into XML

The AssetImpl class to process getProperty requests for properties that are MLText.

Hope that offers some guidance.