topic Re: Clearing/Unsetting the value of a date property via REST API in Alfresco Archive

Clearing/Unsetting the value of a date property via REST API

hfmeza — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:54:23 GMT

Hi.I'm developing a Java application that connects to Alfresco Community 4.2.One of the functionalities involves setting and modifying a document's properties through /alfresco/service/api/metadata/I create a JSONObject and set the value of each property, which works perfectly for all cases, except

Re: Clearing/Unsetting the value of a date property via REST API

mitpatoliya — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 08:17:56 GMT

This service(/alfresco/service/api/metadata/) is node metadata retrieval service as far as I know and as per description of that webscript.

So, it will just return metadata of existing node. It can not be used to reset metadata.

Re: Clearing/Unsetting the value of a date property via REST API

hfmeza — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 23:24:16 GMT

Thanks for answering. That service also permits using POST to change the metadata values, only not to what I would call "empty Date".

"Node Metadata Storage Service

POST /alfresco/service/api/metadata/node/{store_type}/{store_id}/{id}

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Re: Clearing/Unsetting the value of a date property via REST API

mitpatoliya — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:39:52 GMT

I think there will be issue with Date Format. Normally Alfresco stores date in UTC format. Try few options.