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Create WCF Web Services for Alfresco.

bilalsaeed — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:36:49 GMT

I need to create soap based web services for Alfresco in order to integrate with third party web application.Required web services are as followervice 1:Input: custom metadata fieldoutput: List of documents contain such metadata field.Service 2:Input: Document IdOutput: Base64 data of document.Ser

Re: Create WCF Web Services for Alfresco.

openpj — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:38:06 GMT

You can create your own SOAP stub using internally the CMIS protocol, the following references can be used also to test your CMIS client:

CMIS Server | Content Management Interoperability Services | Alfresco

Consider that Alfresco implements both of the CMIS bindings: REST and SOAP. But I suggest you to use the REST binding.

This means that you can implement you own wrapper that exposes SOAP messages but internally talks to Alfresco using CMIS-REST binding.

Considering CMIS you can match each service as the following:

for the Service 1, you can use the Discovery Services
for the Service 2, you can get the specific Stream for the content
for the Service 3, you can use the Object Service

Please see the example in the official Chemistry project with also considering different languages:

Apache Chemistry - Creating and updating CMIS objects

Hope this helps.

Re: Create WCF Web Services for Alfresco.

bilalsaeed — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:26:01 GMT

So here's what I did. For Service 1 I used CMIS to query the document.

For Service 2) I created a POST based webscript to upload file Alfresco as I needed to create folders based on requested URL parameter and also needed to compress files before upload.

For Service 3) I used Alfresco API to provide me a stream which I converted to base64 later.