topic Trouble with custom transformation in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/trouble-with-custom-transformation/m-p/137335#M96278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm trying to get a custom transformer (Abiword: msword -&gt; xhtml) working on Alfresco 2.1 on Linux. It's almost there but failing at the final hurdle resulting in no errors but with an empty file being created in Alfresco. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If I use my command line manually, i get the expected results. In reference to a previous post on here, I also tried creating a simple shell script with two inputs that runs the full command line. No joy.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If I perform the transform in the Web Client (resulting in an empty file being created) and then look at the contents of the temp directory, I see three files:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>RuntimeExecutableContentTransformer_source_19263.doc<BR />RuntimeExecutableContentTransformer_source_19263.xhtml<BR />RuntimeExecutableContentTransformer_target_19264.xhtml<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>There's the doc I started with, a mystery file with the correct results in (but with the same filename as the source instead of target) and finally the empty file that goes into Alfresco.&nbsp; I want the middle file to be my result file not the empty one.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a bug or some quirk of using Abiword? I've tried all sorts different command lines in the transformation bean config and nothing seems to work. If anyone is interested in helping,&nbsp; I've included my config code below:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?&gt;<BR />&lt;!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' '<A href="http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd</A>'&gt;<BR />&lt;beans&gt;<BR />&lt;bean id="transformer.Abiword.XHTML" class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.RuntimeExecutableContentTransformer" parent="baseContentTransformer"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="checkCommand"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="commandMap"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entry key=".*"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;abiword –help&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/entry&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="errorCodes"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;2&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="transformCommand"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="commandMap"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entry key="Linux"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;abiword –to=xhtml –print=${target} ${source}&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/entry&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="errorCodes"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;2&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="explicitTransformations"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;list&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.ContentTransformerRegistry$TransformationKey" &gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;constructor-arg&gt;&lt;value&gt;application/msword&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/constructor-arg&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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xhtml) working on Alfresco 2.1 on Linux. It's almost there but failing at the final hurdle resulting in no errors but with an empty file being created in Alfresco. If I use my command line manually, i get the expected results. In referenc Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:27:55 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/trouble-with-custom-transformation/m-p/137335#M96278 randomman 2007-09-20T11:27:55Z Re: Trouble with custom transformation https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/trouble-with-custom-transformation/m-p/137336#M96279 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've got around this by replacing the command line with a shell script that performs the command and then replaces the empty file with the mystery file. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It works but smells like a bit of a hack to me so if anyone has a nicer solution, I'm all ears!&nbsp; :wink:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>EDIT: After further investigation into this, it would appear that the problem lay with a possible bug in Abiword where it was not printing to file as expected. i.e. it appeared to ignore the print filename and just used the original name regardless.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:06:34 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/trouble-with-custom-transformation/m-p/137336#M96279 randomman 2007-09-20T13:06:34Z