topic Re: Get Type Details in Alfresco Forum

Get Type Details

ramprasad — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:40:31 GMT

Are there REst APIs to look at details of a Type like getTypeProperties(), getAspects(), getParentAssociations(),getChildAssocs()?

Re: Get Type Details

mikel_asla — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:24:46 GMT

I beleave you mean this

Alfresco Content Services REST API Explorer

Re: Get Type Details

ramprasad — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 04:17:42 GMT

Sorry I was not clear. Let us say I want to get all properties and associations of type cm:content (I am at the type level and not at an instance level). Which Restful API should I use to get this information dynamically?

Re: Get Type Details

cesarista — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 09:37:36 GMT

Hi:

Do you refer to this ?

How to list and check your custom content models in Alfresco - Checking details about bootstrap content models in Alfres…

Regards.

--C.

Re: Get Type Details

ramprasad — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:19:52 GMT

Yes. Thank you. Is there a comparable Restful API for doing this?

Re: Get Type Details

cesarista — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:23:35 GMT

Well, the first option is in fact based on a webscript / REST service.

Regards.

--C.

Re: Get Type Details

ramprasad — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:47:59 GMT

Thanks again.

One last question: Is there a way to include inherited attributes, associations and aspects?

Re: Get Type Details

jpotts — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:11:44 GMT

An alternative to using Alfresco native APIs for this is to use CMIS. For example, here are some Java examples that use CMIS to query for type definitions:

Working with Types - Apache Chemistry Samples

And with the CMIS browser binding you can query the dictionary service in a RESTful way. You can see an example request/response log by looking at the getTypeDefinition section in the CMIS specification document.