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How to use webscript to get SiteService object for Site related operations

smita — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:39:46 GMT

I want to get SiteService object for some site related functions like creation, deletion etc through java code. eg. I want following should be workingsiteService.deleteSite(shortName); As I researched on net, I have to use webscript to get SiteService objcet. I have seen on alfresco wiki pages,

Re: How to use webscript to get SiteService object for Site related operations

kaynezhang — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:15:57 GMT

siteService an object in javascript api.
If you just want to operate site using existing webscript api you don't need to get siteService object

alfresco webscript api is a REST API.so to make a call, You can use apache commons httpclient to make an HTTP request to webscript's URI:

Take site creation as an example


package com.kayne.cmis.webscript;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class CreateSiteTest {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
      client.getState().setCredentials(
            new AuthScope("localhost", 8080, "Alfresco"),
            new UsernamePasswordCredentials("admin", "admin"));

      String apiurl = "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/sites";
      PostMethod post = new PostMethod(apiurl);
      try {
         JSONObject site = new JSONObject();
         site.put("shortName", "newsite");
         site.put("sitePreset", "site-dashboard");
         site.put("title", "newsite");
         site.put("description", "newsite");
         site.put("visibility", "PUBLIC");

         System.out.println(site.toString());
         post.setDoAuthentication(true);
         post.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
         post.setRequestEntity(new StringRequestEntity(site.toString(),
               "application/json", "UTF-8"));

         int status = client.executeMethod(post);
         if (status != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
            System.err.println("Method failed: " + post.getStatusLine());
         }
         String resultString = post.getResponseBodyAsString();
         System.out.println(resultString);
      } catch (Exception e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      } finally {
         post.releaseConnection();
      }
   }
}

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Re: How to use webscript to get SiteService object for Site related operations

smita — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:21:00 GMT

Thank you for your help. But the code you have provided here is not creating site properly. When I click on the site created with this code, it returns 'A server error has occurred'. Somehow I have managed the create site with following url
'http://alfresco-server:8080/share/service/modules/create-site'

I have tried the same for deleting the site with url 'http://alfresco-server:8080/share/service/modules/delete-site' but that doesn't work at my end and I am not able to find the delete site url and their parameters. Could please provide me the deleteSite webscipt url and a code snippet for deleting site, if there is any.

Also, if I have to perform more operations for site, like cloning etc. from where I can find the existing webscript urls? This was the reason, I have chosen the SiteService object for performing site related tasks.

Thanks in advance.

Smita

Re: How to use webscript to get SiteService object for Site related operations

smita — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:41:18 GMT

I have got the webscript url for delete site, it is '/alfresco/service/api/sites/{shortname}' and this is working fine with java code now. But, as I have noticed earlier also, if I create a site using create-site webscript url '/alfresco/service/api/sites' in java, the site click is throwing server error. This might due to the AVM store issue as I have seen in many blogs. Is there any work around for this in java?

Re: How to use webscript to get SiteService object for Site related operations

kaynezhang — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:10:36 GMT

I have already tested the site creation code ,It works fine in my envirement.
What error did you get ? Could you paste your error here?

Re: How to use webscript to get SiteService object for Site related operations

thirumal — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:53:00 GMT

Site node is created but when redirecting to site dashboard its giving the following error message

ERROR [alfresco.web.site] [http-bio-8080-exec-12] javax.servlet.ServletException: Could not resolve view with name 'site/sample123/dashboard' in servlet with name 'Spring Surf Dispatcher Servlet'