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Getting a ticket in open CMIS and passing it to query service

kartech11 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:44:03 GMT

Jeff Potts‌ & alfresco experts, I have a username and password with which I get a ticket and then I use the ticket to query my alfresco repository. With Open CMIS how can I get a ticket and pass it along for queryingI am using the sample code in CMISExampleBase from Jeff Potts example to connect

Re: Getting a ticket in open CMIS and passing it to query service

afaust — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:04:59 GMT

You cannot obtain an authentication ticket via CMIS. The only way is via the Alfresco ReST API.

Re: Getting a ticket in open CMIS and passing it to query service

kartech11 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:40:14 GMT

Thanks Axel Faust‌ for your response. I wanted to use CMIS as it apparently is easier to extract all the folders, subfolders and documents along with their metadata . If I use Alfresco REST API is it easy to extract folders, subfolders , documents along with their metadata? What approach should I take for the above?

Re: Getting a ticket in open CMIS and passing it to query service

afaust — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:03:02 GMT

You asked for how to obtain a ticket, and I replied you cannot do that via CMIS but have to use ReST API. You can still use CMIS for those other use cases of dealing with files, folders etc. It just is not useful for dealing with tickets (apart from accepting ticket for authentication). Of course you can also use the new ReST API to deal with files and folders - it is a lot more low-level then CMIS but also less restrictive. I will not make any recommendation for that use case though since you need to figure out what works best for you.