Using the Alfresco NodeJS API to create a folder path

pedwards99 — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:06:40 GMT

Hi there,Has anyone ever managed to create a folder structure in Alfresco using the Javascript API and NodeJS?I think my problem is a lack of understanding of Node, rather than Alfresco, but here's what I'm trying to achieve:Given a folder path as a string e.g. /Cities/London/Stations/Euston I want

Re: Using the Alfresco NodeJS API to create a folder path

jpotts — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:07:45 GMT

The Alfresco JS API actually accepts a path as the parent folder argument and will create each element in the path if it does not exist. Here is an example:

var AlfrescoApi = require('alfresco-js-api-node');

function createFolder(folder, parentFolder, callback) {
  this.alfrescoJsApi = new AlfrescoApi({hostEcm:'http://alfresco.local:8080'});
  this.alfrescoJsApi.login('admin', 'admin').then(function (data) {
      console.log('API called successfully Login ticket:' + data);
      this.alfrescoJsApi.nodes.createFolder(folder, parentFolder).then(function(data) {
        console.log("Created folder");
        return callback(data);
      })
  }, function (error) {
      console.error(error);
  });
}

createFolder("testjs", 'some/path', function(data) {
    console.log("Done creating : " + data.entry.name + " (" + data.entry.id + ")");
})
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I didn't have to set up the createFolder function, I could have just done lines 4 through 13 but I somehow find this easier to read.

Running this with node will create a folder named "testjs" under the root under some/path.

To answer your original question, if the path argument wasn't supported, and if you instead had to pass in a node reference or something like that for the parent, you could do the split as you suggest and then recursively call create folder.

Re: Using the Alfresco NodeJS API to create a folder path

pedwards99 — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:46:42 GMT

Fantastic !

Thanks Jeff, I didn't realise you could use a folder path as the argument. That makes lief a lot easier 🙂

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