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Best practices using Alfresco Web Service Client

developer_resea — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:35:00 GMT

Hello, I'm trying to integrate a web application with alfresco using 'alfresco-web-service-client-3.3.jar', I have reviewed the examples that there is in the web and these work fine but there are some aspects that I have not clear yet:1. There is various parts of the code to makes use of constan

Re: Best practices using Alfresco Web Service Client

patil — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:50:42 GMT

To answer your first question, alfresco uses the ContentModelling concept store the data.
You can explore content modelling in alfresco to ge the answer.

Thanks,
Patil
ECM Consulatant
Bangalore

Re: Best practices using Alfresco Web Service Client

jcustovic — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:39:32 GMT

The ID that you are mentioning is not the actual ID and will not be stored on alfresco. It is ment to link other CML commnad to that item in a single request. Lets just say you want to add aspect with CMLCreate… You need some kind of ID to link it to because it is not yet created on alfresco (and if you didn't have that ID you would need to create the document in one request, get the nodeRef and issue another request for adding aspect) so thats where that ID is useful. For example:

      
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CML cml = new CML();

CMLCreate create = new CMLCreate("1", parent, null, Constants.ASSOC_CONTAINS, null, documentTypeQName, properties);
CMLAddAspect aspect = new CMLAddAspect(aspectName, aspectProperties, null, "1");

CMLCreate create2 = new CMLCreate("2", parent, null, Constants.ASSOC_CONTAINS, null, documentTypeQName2, properties2);
CMLAddAspect aspect2 = new CMLAddAspect(aspectName2, aspectProperties2, null, "2");

cml.setAddAspect(new CMLAddAspect[] {aspect, aspect2});
cml.setCreate(new CMLCreate[] { create, create2 });

UpdateResult[] results = getRepositoryService().update(cml);
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Re: Best practices using Alfresco Web Service Client

developer_resea — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:38:01 GMT

To answer your first question, alfresco uses the ContentModelling concept store the data.
You can explore content modelling in alfresco to ge the answer.

Hello Patil,

Thanks for you answer, I guess you mean to 'contentModel.xml' in "ALFRESCO_HOME\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\model" but still not clear to me what values that take at run time the constants in the 'org.alfresco.webservice.util.Constants' class, my doubt is if its value will "".

Thanks and regards,