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How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

lorel — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:33:38 GMT

I use a query to have a folder on Alfresco.I can extract those information :{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}modifier admin{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}modified 2006-10-26T16:18:53.501+02:00{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}description On retrouve ici, les info

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

kevinr — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:33:36 GMT

What API are you using to get the information? The PATH to an object is available using most of the APIs, the NodeService has a getPath() method and the Alfresco JavaScript API and Alfresco FreeMarker Ttemplating API also have methods for retrieving the Path.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

fchevance — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:31:01 GMT

Hi,

I suppose you're using webservices.
So, folderNode is your Node object (org.alfresco.webservice.types.Node)

You can get its path from the Reference object :


Reference nodeRef = folderNode.getReference();
String strPath = nodeRef.getPath();
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Fred

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

lorel — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:14:59 GMT

I give you more information

I have the id in parameter

org.alfresco.webservice.types.Node[] tabNode = WebServiceFactory.getRepositoryService().get(new Predicate(new Reference[]{new Reference(Config.getStore(), id, null)}, Config.getStore(), null));

      //extraction des informations.
      this.setName(tabNode[0].getProperties(9).getValue());
      this.setTitle(tabNode[0].getProperties(8).getValue());
      this.setDescription(tabNode[0].getProperties(3).getValue());
      this.setId(tabNode[0].getProperties(4).getValue());

      this.setRef(tabNode[0].getReference());
      this.setXPath(tabNode[0].getReference().getPath());

I have all information that I want but the ….getPath() return null.

Can you tell me what I have to do?

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

carina — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:47:03 GMT

From what we've observed, there is no way to get a path via web services. You have to know the path or the uuid before hand to create a Reference or a Query to retrieve objects. The RepositoryWebService methods return Node objects (either directly or via a ResultSet), but when you call Node.getReference(), the Reference only has the uuid set, not the path. The Node object also does not contain the child association QName (from which we could create the path manually if we had it).

This is a problem if I want to retrieve a node using get(), browse several levels using getChildren(), and from there conduct a search of all descendents of a particular atribute value. If I don't know the child association names for the descendents, I have to guess at the path, so my xpath string is not guaranteed to be correct.

It would be great if the Node objects contained the path or child association name in addition to the uuid.

Please let me know if there is a workaround or if I've missed something. One possibility is to create a custom action to get the paths for an array of node uuids, but we are trying to limit hits to the server as much as possible. So hopefully there's a better way.

Thanks for the help.

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

aurora7795 — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:54:50 GMT

I wish this functionality was available as well - I'm assuming you guys didn't find any workarounds?

Martin BG

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

carina — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:36:52 GMT

It looks like this issue has been logged (http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-713) and will be fixed soon, which is great! In the interim, we are manually constructing the paths in our client code. We are using strict naming/child association conventions for files, folders, and links (which mirror those used by the Alfresco portal), so we can guess at the proper path. However, in the future, if we add additional types (or additional naming conventions), this won't be as easy, so we will wait for version 1.4E to do that.

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

pmarreddy — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:01:32 GMT

i am looking fo rthe solution too, if somebody found a solution, share it.

thanks prasanth

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

jtorres — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:44:55 GMT

Hope this bug will be solved soon, it'll be really helpful for all

If anyone finds a way to get it before the bug is solved please, share it :wink:

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

sergio — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:41:27 GMT

Hi all.

Just a simple question: where is the org.alfresco.webservice.types.QueryLanguageEnum class? The version of Alfresco (1.4) that I am using does not contain this class, so I cannot use the xpath query language to build queries but only Lucene. Am I correct?

Many thanks to all.

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

rwetherall — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:45:45 GMT

Hi,

Yes this is correct, the web service API only supports Lucene queries and the QueryEnum has been preplaced with a string (the enum classes where proving troublesome in some situations).

Cheers,
Roy

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

sergio — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:58:30 GMT

And what about the problem of retrieving a null value for a node path using the <Reference>.getPath() method? I am just talking about the well known problem described in http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-713.

Here the code used…..

ResultSetRow[] elencoNodi = rst.getRows();
for (ResultSetRow nodo : elencoNodi)
{
String uuidNodo = nodo.getNode().getId();
Reference n = new Reference();
n.setStore(store);
n.setUuid(uuidNodo);
String pathNode = n.getPath();
…..

Many thanks (Roy, I suppose)

All the best

Sergio

Re: How to have the PATH of a folder with his UUID

cludt — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:31:27 GMT

Hey guys!

Everybody is complaining here that getting the path via WebService is missing. So, vote for the bug to get it fixed earlier.
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-713