topic How do I get the RootFolderID? in Alfresco Archive

How do I get the RootFolderID?

wouter — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:40:44 GMT

Hi,I am developing an iPhone app that should connect to an alfresco repository.What I have accomplished today is that I have been able to do the following using the REST interface:- Login- Get repository InfoI request the repository Info using the following call:/service/api/repositoryor/service/api

Re: How do I get the RootFolderID?

fmui — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:19:54 GMT

Hi Wouter,

There is the root folder id which is an id within the repository and there is the root folder collection which is represented by a URL.
If you want to call getDescendants() you have to use the root folder collection URL.

Look for:


<collection href="http://…"> 
    <atom:title>root collection</atom:title> 
    <cmisra:collectionType>root</cmisra:collectionType>
</collection> 
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Florian

Re: How do I get the RootFolderID?

wouter — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:16:50 GMT

Hi Florian,

In the repositoryInfo I did find the xml that you mentioned:


<collection href="http://domain.com/alfresco/service/api/path/workspace/SpacesStore/Company%20Home/descendants" cmis:collectionType="root-descendants"> 
      <atom:title>root collection</atom:title> 
    </collection>
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However, we access 'everything' over https, so we rewrite the url to what we want it to be.
If I do that … I get the exact same error that I got earlier:


<tr><td>The Web Script <a href="/corporate/alfresco/alfresco/service/api/node/workspace/SpacesStore/Company Home/descendants?alf_ticket=TICKET_xxx>/alfresco/service/api/node/workspace/SpacesStore/Company Home/descendants</a> has responded with a status of 404 - Not Found.</td></tr>
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When I replace the 'Company%20Home' in the url that I call with a valid identifier (like 9f6000a8-9484-11dc-90b9-7fa4aa914986) … then I get a perfect response, so (the rest of) the url seems fine!

I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot figure out what.

Perhaps Alfresco does not like the fact that we rewrite the url (which the web server should be doing, I guess) ?? But that Alfresco only objects to that when requesting the RootFolderId …

Regards,
Wouter

Re: How do I get the RootFolderID?

fmui — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:16:37 GMT

I can't reproduce the URLs you are seeing. Is it possible that you are using a fairly old Alfresco release?

Florian