topic How to execute a WebScript from a Java WebService ? in Alfresco Archive

How to execute a WebScript from a Java WebService ?

rafpgn — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:58:01 GMT

Hi,I need to call a webscript form a Java WebService .I have just solved it using the URLConnection Java class ,but i don't want to parse the html respose for getting the return values .This is the code that i'm testing with the Javascript Debubber web script because it require authentication ack

Re: How to execute a WebScript from a Java WebService ?

mikeh — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:25:41 GMT

Hi

What's wrong with your current implementation? If you're having trouble parsing the response, then you could create an XML-output version of the web script you want to call, or even Json, plain text, etc.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: How to execute a WebScript from a Java WebService ?

rafpgn — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:58:18 GMT

Thanks for the response.

That's nothing wrong with my code, the question is if there is another way
of doing the same thing , things like executeAction() ?

Re: How to execute a WebScript from a Java WebService ?

mikeh — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:39:41 GMT

That depends on whether you'd prefer to write your own repository action or web script.

There's no "right or wrong" way as such. If there's an existing web script that does what you need, then by all means call that, otherwise if an existing repository action does what you need then executeAction() would be better suited. Also the Web Script API doesn't cover 100% of the Alfresco repository, so you may find you need to write your own action, depending on what you're trying to achieve.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: How to execute a WebScript from a Java WebService ?

rafpgn — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:54:38 GMT

ok , thank you.
I need to list all groups in the system, but i haven't well understood what is a Reference , a Predicate and a Store .