topic Adding new Content to a buried Space in Alfresco Archive

Adding new Content to a buried Space

csbrown — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:46:23 GMT

I need to be able to add documents at various levels in our "Spaces" heirarchy setup in alfresco, as is normal, I'm sure. The Spaces were setup using the Web Client, but I need to add documents via WebServices. What is the best way via the WebServices client to locate a Space that is buried within

Re: Adding new Content to a buried Space

rwetherall — Tue, 02 May 2006 10:37:41 GMT

Hi,

For the time being using a query is the best way to get hold of the reference you require.

This can be done using the query method on the repository service, using Lucene, or you can provide a path query to a reference or predicate object that can be used in most of the method calls. The path provided to the reference will be resolved to the node when the web service method is exectued.

In the future there will be a file/folder service that will make normal file and folder operations easier to perform.

Cheers,
Roy

Re: Adding new Content to a buried Space

csbrown — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:05:53 GMT

Thanks for the reply Roy.

Here's how I ended up building the reference to the folder location I wanted to write new content to.


// Set the folder location
protected static String DOCUMENT_FOLDER = "/app:company_home/*[@cm:name=\"Web Service Sample Folder\"]";

// Start the session
AuthenticationUtils.startSession(USERNAME, PASSWORD);

Reference homeReference = new Reference(STORE, null, DOCUMENT_FOLDER);
Node[] readResult = WebServiceFactory.getRepositoryService().get(
                                             new Predicate(new Reference[]{homeReference}, STORE, null) 
                                             );
         
// Update the homeReference variable as read from repository
homeReference = readResult[0].getReference();
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Then I can use the homeReference variable to build the ParentRefence to use when creating new elements.

Thanks again,

Colby