topic Re: Unclear on how to call a webscript from an application in Alfresco Archive

Unclear on how to call a webscript from an application

goebelchase — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:30:49 GMT

I am working on a small application, written in C#, that is intended to call a webscript that will search the alfresco database for any files with a specific string in the title, and then return the data on those files (Title and Date Modified are all that is required) into an array. I understand t

Re: Unclear on how to call a webscript from an application

s_palyukh — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:52:51 GMT

Authenticating - http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts#Authenticating
REST API - https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_RESTful_API_Reference

Re: Unclear on how to call a webscript from an application

kaynezhang — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:27:39 GMT

I suggest you try to use DotCMIS client first,because it is platform independent.Only choose webscript api if DotCMIS api dose not satisfy your requirment.
A web script is a service bound to a URI that responds to HTTP methods such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELET, so you can submit HTTP request using the HttpClient API
to send HTTP requests and receive HTTP responses and deal with http responses.

Re: Unclear on how to call a webscript from an application

goebelchase — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:35:51 GMT

Thank you for your suggestion, the DotCMIS client does seem like it would meet my needs much more efficiently. I will attempt it with that.