topic Retrieving remote content in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/retrieving-remote-content/m-p/286886#M240016 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a migration from an old system that has millions of images, very few of which will ever be viewed but it is impossible to know which will and wont be viewed.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now, I could inport 5TB of images "just in case" but it seems to make more sense to leave these behind their own private web server and retrieve them when required. However, I do not want that web server to be public so I want to access the images behind it via Alfresco webscripts executed from Share.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to display them inside share so what I need to be able to do is create a web script that will stream content but that first retrieves that content from a remote http server.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I can easily write the webscript to stream the content if the content was a node in Alfresco, but there does not seem to be the properties on model to directly return content. I can set contentNode but not, so far as I can see, "content" or at least I cannot find any example of anyone directly setting the content stream; only ever passing a node from which the content must be streamed.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This tends to suggest my only solution is to retrieve the content using java and create a node (temporary) inside Alfresco and then return that content node. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can basically do</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />model.content = remoteURL.contentsStream<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>in a webscript of kind="org.alfresco.repository.content.stream"</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 12 Apr 2014 06:55:52 GMT rjohnson 2014-04-12T06:55:52Z Retrieving remote content https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/retrieving-remote-content/m-p/286886#M240016 I have a migration from an old system that has millions of images, very few of which will ever be viewed but it is impossible to know which will and wont be viewed.Now, I could inport 5TB of images "just in case" but it seems to make more sense to leave these behind their own private web server and Sat, 12 Apr 2014 06:55:52 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/retrieving-remote-content/m-p/286886#M240016 rjohnson 2014-04-12T06:55:52Z Re: Retrieving remote content https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/retrieving-remote-content/m-p/286887#M240017 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Looking at your scenario, you will have to take the java implementation path to achieve this. Read the image from the remote server and create a node in alfresco and use the content of a node for rendering.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /></BODY></HTML> Sat, 12 Apr 2014 18:12:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/retrieving-remote-content/m-p/286887#M240017 romschn 2014-04-12T18:12:00Z