topic Re: Uploading files using RESTful in Alfresco Archive

Uploading files using RESTful

elimarcos — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:27:21 GMT

Hi,I am using the following approach to perform uploading files to the Alfresco repository:URL: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/upload/?alf_ticket = {User's ticket}parameters: [filedata, filename, description, siteid, containerId]‍‍‍‍However, this approach does not allow me to insert file

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

kaynezhang — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 03:45:47 GMT

try this


URL: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/upload/?alf_ticket = {User's ticket}

File file = new File("C:/Test_Upload.pdf");
String filetype = "application/pdf"
String filename="Test_Upload.pdf";

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
PostMethod post = new PostMethod(URL);
Part[] parts = {
   new FilePart("filedata", filename, file, filetype, null),
   new StringPart("filename", filename),
   new StringPart("description", "description"),
   new StringPart("siteid", "yoursite"),
   new StringPart("containerid", "documentLibrary"),
   // your can add more paramter here
   //new StringPart("uploaddirectory", "documentLibrary"),
   //new StringPart("updatenoderef", "updatenoderef"),
   //new StringPart("contenttype", "contenttype"),
   //new StringPart("aspects", "aspects")
   …..
   };
post.setRequestEntity(new MultipartRequestEntity(parts, post.getParams()));
int status = client.executeMethod(post);
System.out.println(post.getResponseBodyAsString());
post.releaseConnection();
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Re: Uploading files using RESTful

iblanco — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:00:53 GMT

The API you are using is the same that the Drag & Drop feature of Alfresco Share uses and it can upload content to any folder.
Inspecting the POST with Chrome's developer tools I see that this API gets a "destination" parameter with the NodeReference of the destination folder, so if you can get the NodeRef of your destination folder you should be able to send content there.

Furthermore, if you check this API's documentation (http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/script/org/alfresco/repository/upload/upload.post) it seems like it should even be able to accept and "uploadDirectory" parameter that refers to a destination folder by path name.

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

iblanco — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:02:46 GMT

You might also find interesting this reference in the wiki:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts_Examples#File_Upload

With this as an example you could even build your own webscript for upload and implement the logic you prefer to decide where to put the content.

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

elimarcos — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:30:16 GMT

Hi,

Anyway, I could understand what I was doing wrong!

Using the example of kaynezhang and checking API suggested by iblanco, I found that the parameter "siteid" deletes the parameter "destination".

I was trying to use both, so it was not working. It was just remove the "siteid" that the parameter "destination" started to function as it should.



Part[] parts = {
   new FilePart("filedata", filename, file, filetype, null),
   new StringPart("filename", filename),
   new StringPart("description", "description"),
   // new StringPart("siteid", "yoursite"),
   // new StringPart("containerid", "documentLibrary"),
        new StringPart("destination", "workspace://SpacesStore/7118e242-86b1-489a-ac2e-193364ccf6e4"),
}

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Thank you for everything!

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

kaynezhang — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:40:00 GMT

Yes if siteId is not null ,upload webscript works in site mode ,the content will be upload in a destination node which is in a container(specified by containerId parameter) under the site(specified by siteId parameter).
If siteId is null, upload webscript works in non site mode.the content will be upload in a destination node specified by destination parameter.

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

pyt — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:57:00 GMT

Hey,
i'd like to create a folder via RESTful API. Is it in anyway possible, to use the code that kaynezhang wrote to create a document for my case?

What I am actually trying to do is to create a folder using the "DEV HTTP CLIENT" in chrome browser.
These are my inputs:

URL:


POST localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/node/workspace/SpacesStore/15fc9618-56a5-4037-ac25-508899d5ba28/children
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These are the parameters i send with:


{"alf_destination":"workspace://SpacesStore/15fc9618-56a5-4037-ac25-508899d5ba28","prop_cm_name":"test","prop_cm_title":"","prop_cm_description":""}
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Every time i send the request, i recive a response saying: 400 Bad Request

What do I have to change?

Best regards
pyt

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

iblanco — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:19:21 GMT

This API is for file upload, not for directory creation.

Share creates folder by calling the form processor: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/type/cm%3afolder/formprocessor

And POST somethin like:
{"alf_destination":"workspace://SpacesStore/90c7ba28-b991-48db-8ba3-f42a198dd54e","prop_cm_name":"MyFolder","prop_cm_title":"","prop_cm_description":""}

There might be a better API to do this, but this should also work.

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

pyt — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:40:00 GMT

What API do you recommend?

I want to create a folder in PHP.

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

iblanco — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:23:59 GMT

Sorry, I thought you were using the same API as Elimacros. The API you are trying to use seems to me that should be the right one but after glancing over it seems to me that it might only support CMIS requests, not JSON requests.

So you can make your own API or just use the FormProcessor API as Share does.

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

pyt — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:26:38 GMT

Hey,

I've changed now to RESTful API.

I'd like to upload my files with REST API, but now I'm facing an other problem.
This is my URL:


http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/upload
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An this is my PHP code:


$json = ('
        {
            "filename":"HAHA.PDF",
            "destination":"workspace://SpacesStore/'.$parentID.'",
            "filedata":"'.$file.'"
        }
    ');
    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: application/json"));
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC) ;
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "admin:admin"); 
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $submit_url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 

    $rs = curl_exec($curl);
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Every time i execute my script, i receive an Error -> Error 500

best regards
pyt

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

koopa — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:02:14 GMT

I'm using RESTful API. Can I use

siteid‍

containerid‍

uploaddirectory‍

to upload a file to a specific site directory inside

documentLibrary‍

? It does not work… These are the values I use:


siteid = "repo",
containerid = "documentLibrary",
uploaddirectory = "raps"
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The files upload succesfully but it ignores the

uploaddirectory‍

param so I find them under

repo/documentLibrary‍

instead of

repo/documentLibrary/raps‍

.
Is it my fault? I don't use

destination‍

param.

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

koopa — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:01:19 GMT

I really don't know why but I found that to upload to a specific directory I have to give the uploaddirectory parameter with '/' at first and last char of the string. I mean:
<ol>
<li>"dir" won't work</li>
<li>"/dir" won't work</li>
<li>"dir/" won't work</li>
<li>"/dir/" works!</li>
</ol>

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

aleksczajka — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:06:47 GMT

pyt, did you finally get the answer to your question? I'm at the beginning of the process of attempting to upload images to Alfresco using xml files from the client. I'm also using PHP. What ended up working for you?

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

fahad — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:36:00 GMT

Dear kaynezhang

how you are managing your upload file code. The java script restricts "transaction required". First But your code is without Transaction.
second, I managed to add transaction but not succeeded..Can you tel me some way to do that.
   try
           {
               userTransaction1.begin();


             post.setRequestEntity(new MultipartRequestEntity(parts, post
                   .getParams()));

             int status = client.executeMethod(post);

             System.out.println(post.getResponseBodyAsString());

             post.releaseConnection();


               userTransaction1.commit();
           }
           catch(Exception e)
           {
               try { userTransaction1.rollback(); } catch (IllegalStateException ee) {}
               throw e;
           }

Can you answer how you manage it without transaction ??

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

fahad — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:38:53 GMT

Dear

In your code you mentioned new StringPart("destination", "workspace://SpacesStore/7118e242-86b1-489a-ac2e-193364ccf6e4")
I am not able to get the destination value, how to get it???
your detailed explanation can really help?

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

shinu — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:21:43 GMT

Hi
i am new to this tool.I am using restful api for uploading files.By using noderef i can upload files.Is it anyway upload files by folder name
In our application I have folder like Testing under testing, i have sub folder like test 1 ,test 2 etc.this test1 and test2 generated in alfresco whenever user register application by using alfresco rest api.By looking node ref and nodeid everytime is not good deal.Could you pleaee provide any feasible solution with sample code for uploading and downloading

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

domenico — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:37:36 GMT

Hi there,
I'm try to upload a file to the shared folder…
This is my code.
<java>
    // using httpclient-4.5

    Path filePath = Paths.get("C:/afile.txt");
    String ticket = getTicket(); // get a ticket via /alfresco/service/api/login…

    CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.createDefault();
    HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/upload?alf_ticket=" + ticket);
    MultipartEntityBuilder entity = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();

    StringBody descriptionBody = new StringBody("a test", ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);
    StringBody siteId = new StringBody("company_home", ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);    // how can upload the file
    StringBody containerid = new StringBody("/Shared", ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);    // in the shared folder??

    entity.addBinaryBody("filedata", filePath.toFile());
    entity.addPart("siteid", siteId);
    entity.addPart("containerid", containerid);

    post.setEntity(entity.build());

    CloseableHttpResponse postResponse = client.execute(post);

   // …
</java>

Can anyone help me? Thanks.

Re: Uploading files using RESTful

kisanme — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:26:19 GMT

Request type should be multipart/formdata as far as the webscript for the upload api is concerned.

I'm also still struggling to crack this issue, if you have already found how to do this in PHP, can you please mention that?