Email Notification for 'My Favorites' documents

morganp1 — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:50:26 GMT

Hi,We are currently using Alfresco Community in its version 4.2.c. Few weeks ago, I was asked to add a small feature to Alfresco to receive a notification when a document is updated and if we have 'subscribed' to this document.The first thing that came to my mind was to use the list 'My Favorites'.W

Re: Email Notification for 'My Favorites' documents

afaust — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:03:45 GMT

Hello,

your error stack trace does not match with your code example: in the code there is a call to getPeople() but in the stack trace there is a call to getAllPeople()
The problem with this kind of error is that it is most likely "just" an error triggered by a broken functionality that is being called prior to your rule. In my experience, this is most often related to malconfigured custom services (e.g. incorrectly configured security interceptors / beans).

As to your question about getting the favorites before 4.2d: The favorites are all stored within the user preferences for which the FavoriteService is "just" a facade. You can read the preference yourself via the PreferenceService. The preference keys are "org.alfresco.share.documents.favourites" and "org.alfresco.share.folders.favourites". The value of the preference should be a comma-separated list of NodeRef.

We have recently implemented a subscription feature in Alfresco Share site document libraries where users can sign up for notification about changes to content independent of their favorites or the Site activities (which may not be generated for automatic processes, workflows, CIFS / WebDAV, SharePoint…). This lets the user decide what updates he would like to receive and also allows the site manager to set up subscriptions for members of the site (members can always opt-out, but this way a manager can define important notification watches en-bulk e.g. when new users join and don't yet know where to look).

In the moment we are in the process of finalizing this commercial module so it is not yet marketed on our web site or the Alfresco addon directory. But it is available to Enterprise and Community users.

Regards
Axel

Re: Email Notification for 'My Favorites' documents

morganp1 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:53:00 GMT

Hello,

In fact, I tried to use several method to get all users(deprecated method too [getAllPeople()]) and it seems like the copy/paste doesn't work at this moment or I just copy/past the wrong exception. I used a new installation of Alfresco 4.2.e with the original alfresco.war and share.war without deploying any extension or anything else. I just put the jar in alfresco/WEB-INF/lib and that's all:


2013-12-03 18:41:24,766  ERROR [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime] [http-apr-8080-exec-7] Exception from executeScript - redirecting to status template error: No authentication provider for net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken
 net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.ProviderNotFoundException: No authentication provider for net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken
        at net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.ProviderManager.doAuthentication(ProviderManager.java:169)
        at net.sf.acegisecurity.AbstractAuthenticationManager.authenticate(AbstractAuthenticationManager.java:49)
        at net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.AbstractSecurityInterceptor.beforeInvocation(AbstractSecurityInterceptor.java:376)
        at net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.method.aopalliance.MethodSecurityInterceptor.invoke(MethodSecurityInterceptor.java:77)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.invoke(ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.java:46)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.alfresco.repo.audit.AuditMethodInterceptor.invoke(AuditMethodInterceptor.java:161)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:110)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy92.getPeople(Unknown Source)
        at org.alfresco.sample.SubscriptionExecuter.executeImpl(SubscriptionExecuter.java:88)
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.executer.ActionExecuterAbstractBase.execute(ActionExecuterAbstractBase.java:258)
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.ActionServiceImpl.directActionExecution(ActionServiceImpl.java:838)
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.executer.CompositeActionExecuter.executeImpl(CompositeActionExecuter.java:66)
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.executer.ActionExecuterAbstractBase.execute(ActionExecuterAbstractBase.java:258)
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.ActionServiceImpl.directActionExecution(ActionServiceImpl.java:838)
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.ActionServiceImpl.executeActionImpl(ActionServiceImpl.java:738)
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.ActionServiceImpl.executeAction(ActionServiceImpl.java:572)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:309)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.AlwaysProceedMethodInterceptor.invoke(AlwaysProceedMethodInterceptor.java:34)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.invoke(ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.java:46)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.alfresco.repo.audit.AuditMethodInterceptor.invoke(AuditMethodInterceptor.java:161)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:110)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy42.executeAction(Unknown Source)
        at org.alfresco.repo.rule.RuleServiceImpl.executeAction(RuleServiceImpl.java:1250)
        at org.alfresco.repo.rule.RuleServiceImpl.executeRule(RuleServiceImpl.java:1244)
        at org.alfresco.repo.rule.RuleServiceImpl.executePendingRule(RuleServiceImpl.java:1190)
        at org.alfresco.repo.rule.RuleServiceImpl.executePendingRulesImpl(RuleServiceImpl.java:1119)
        at org.alfresco.repo.rule.RuleServiceImpl.executePendingRules(RuleServiceImpl.java:1092)
        at org.alfresco.repo.rule.RuleTransactionListener.beforeCommit(RuleTransactionListener.java:57)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.AlfrescoTransactionSupport$TransactionSynchronizationImpl.doBeforeCommit(AlfrescoTransactionSupport.java:737)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.AlfrescoTransactionSupport$TransactionSynchronizationImpl.doBeforeCommit(AlfrescoTransactionSupport.java:717)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.AlfrescoTransactionSupport$TransactionSynchronizationImpl.beforeCommit(AlfrescoTransactionSupport.java:683)
        at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationUtils.triggerBeforeCommit(TransactionSynchronizationUtils.java:95)
        at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.triggerBeforeCommit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:927)
        at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.processCommit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:737)
        at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.commit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:723)
        at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.commitTransactionAfterReturning(TransactionAspectSupport.java:393)
        at org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.commit(SpringAwareUserTransaction.java:472)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:474)
        at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecute(RepositoryContainer.java:491)
        at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecuteAs(RepositoryContainer.java:529)
        at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.executeScript(RepositoryContainer.java:341)
        at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:378)
        at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:209)
        at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServlet.service(WebScriptServlet.java:132)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
        at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.GlobalLocalizationFilter.doFilter(GlobalLocalizationFilter.java:61)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:953)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:408)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1023)
        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:589)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:1852)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
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I will take a look at the PreferenceService, thanks for the advice! But the problem of getting a list of all users stay the same. If I understand what you have said, I could get all favorite documents of a user from the PreferenceService but I can't get all users that have set the current document as a favorite.

Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Morgan

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