topic Re: Get all Childs of a Node in Alfresco Archive

Get all Childs of a Node

toze — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:04:42 GMT

How can i get all childs off a node?Must i do a Recursive call to .getChildAssocs(nodeRef) ?Thanks in advance

Re: Get all Childs of a Node

mrogers — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:53:59 GMT

It depends upon what you want!

For example do you want the assoc or the nodes themselves, do you want deep listing, or do you only want nodes of certain types or with certain assocs.

The following two services are full of many methods that may be useful.
Node Service
FileFolderService

Re: Get all Childs of a Node

toze — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:25:14 GMT

I want the deep listing!
For example i have a folder who have 5 sub-folders and some files. That 5 sub-folders have sub-folders, and files; and so on!

NodeService dont have methods who give the deep listing, for what i could see in the Api.

Going to check the other service.

Thanks for the tips

Re: Get all Childs of a Node

mrogers — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:02:08 GMT

FileFolderService has a listDeepFolders method. It was (in my opinion) over hastily "deprecated". It does however work since imap is dependent upon it.

Deep listing is problematic due to the sheer number of records that could be returned. Not quite sure what the correct solution is here. At minimum it needs to have paging.

Re: Get all Childs of a Node

lotharmärkle — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:59:47 GMT

Please: +1 for a general getChild Method of the NodeService which supports paging. FileFolderService is tied to cm:content etc. Not usable for archiveStore or version2Store e.g.