topic Re: Searching for PATH children in Alfresco Archive

Searching for PATH children

marcus — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:36:40 GMT

I'm wanting to get all the children of a specific node, which after reading the docs seemed like it should be achievable by doing something like the following Node node = new Node(someNodeRef);String query = "PATH:\""+node.getPath()+"/*\"";[code]However, for some reason it only seems to work if I re

Re: Searching for PATH children

andy — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:36:32 GMT

Hi

That is correct. It uses the XPATH prefix style.


Node node = new Node(someNodeRef);
String query = "PATH:\""+node.getPath().toPrefixString(resolver)+"/*\"";
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Will give the correct path (prefixes and encoding of non allowed characters in PATH/XPATH)

Regards

Andy

Re: Searching for PATH children

marcus — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:09:08 GMT

That makes sense, however node.getPath() returns a String value. Am I missing something here?

Re: Searching for PATH children

kevinr — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:58:49 GMT

The issue is the Node class you are using (the web-client Node wrapper) returns the String version of the Path. You want the underlying repository Path object. This code should work in the web-client:


NodeService nodeService = Repository.getServiceRegistry(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()).getNodeService();
Node node = new Node(nodeRef);
String query = "PATH:\"" + nodeService.getPath(nodeRef).toPrefixString(resolver) + "/*\""; 
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Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Searching for PATH children

marcus — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:06:34 GMT

Funny, I stumbled on this just before I got a notify email . However, I can't figure out what Namespace resolver I should be using; not just for this instance, but in other cases too. Are there rules about what resolver to use where?

Re: Searching for PATH children

kevinr — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:37:54 GMT

use the ServiceRegistry to get the NamespaceService as that supports the resolver interface for Alfresco and custom models.

Thanks,

Kevin