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Creating Documents Using CreateDocument Web Service

amitgoda — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:48:53 GMT

Hello Everyone,I am using Alfresco Community 4.2 version. I am using CreateDocument web service to create different documents in my alfresco share. I am using the web service and passing relevant data for each document.I have 2 questions about it,1.) What should be the encoding type for documents, l

Re: Creating Documents Using CreateDocument Web Service

amitgoda — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:19:45 GMT

No Reply !!!

Please do let me know if I have posted in wrong section. I do not know what is wrong with the request I am sending. I have checked the alf_encoding table and I am sending the same encoding type as mentioned in the table for corresponding mime_type.

Below is my soap request


<SOAP:Envelope xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <SOAP:Body>
    <CreateDocument xmlns="http://schemas.cmis.com/cmis/core/1.0">
      <Session>
        <UserName>Admin</UserName>
        <Password>root</Password>
        <Ticket></Ticket>
      </Session>
      <DocumentDetails>
        <Path-UUID type="Path">/app:company_home/st:sites/cm:site-demo/cm:documentLibrary</Path-UUID>
        <FileName>TestDoc</FileName>
        <MimeType>text/plain</MimeType>
        <Encoding>utf-8</Encoding>
        <Content>This file is created using create document web service</Content>
      </DocumentDetails>
    </CreateDocument>
  </SOAP:Body>
</SOAP:Envelope>
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Re: Creating Documents Using CreateDocument Web Service

amitgoda — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:36:00 GMT

Ok, So I got the solution for my second problem, hope it helps others.

Using web service you can create a file with name having space characters in alfresco, but when you try to modify that file and that file name contains space characters than alfresco comes with exception Error executing XPath

For e.g
If your xpath contains file name with space characters as follows,
/app:company_home/st:sites/cm:site-demo/cm:documentLibrary/cm:Test Doc

than alfresco comes with the exception.

So to avoid that, we need to encode the file name and append it to the path like below

/app:company_home/st:sites/cm:site-demo/cm:documentLibrary/cmrg.alfresco.webservice.util.ISO9075.encode(string(FileName))

I was helped by the following link

<a>http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/other-apis/problems-folder-path-08012008-2053</a> .

My 1st question is still not solved.

Any help will be highly appreciated !

Re: Creating Documents Using CreateDocument Web Service

amitgoda — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:02:17 GMT

Ok So finally I got the solution for my 1st question.

If you want to write some content inside the document created, we need to pass the appropriate mime-type and encoding as base64.

The content which we want in the document has to be encoded as base64 and pass the encoded content to the alfresco.

So the base64 encoded content is converted into appropriate format to display the actual content we want to be in our document.

A quick example below


<SOAP:Envelope xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <SOAP:Body>
    <CreateDocument xmlns="http://schemas.cmis.com/cmis/core/1.0">
      <Session>
        <UserName>Admin</UserName>
        <Password>root</Password>
        <Ticket></Ticket>
      </Session>
      <DocumentDetails>
        <Path-UUID type="Path">/app:company_home/st:sites/cm:site-demo/cm:documentLibrary</Path-UUID>
        <FileName>TestDoc</FileName>
        <MimeType>text/plain</MimeType>
        <Encoding>base64</Encoding>
        <Content>(base64 encoded content)</Content>
      </DocumentDetails>
    </CreateDocument>
  </SOAP:Body>
</SOAP:Envelope>
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