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I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

viperboys — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:35:24 GMT

Hi,
I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco. I am using this service http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/-shared-/children for create a document but i need send a file. For example: Send a PDF document to Alfresco.

What service can I consume for this?

Thank you

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

narkuss — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 07:08:14 GMT

You can use the same endpoint, but you should send your data as multipart-form-data.

Depending on your version, you can look at localhost:8080/api-explorer, or go to https://api-explorer.alfresco.com/api-explorer/#!/nodes/createNode for more info.

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

viperboys — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:49:19 GMT

Thank you very much for answering ..

Can you give me a use case to do this with PHP? This is my code for create a document

<?php
set_time_limit(180);
$ticket =(isset($_POST['ticket'])) ? $_POST['ticket'] : 0;
$nid = (isset($_POST['name'])) ? $_POST['name'] : 0;

$data = array("name"=>"test.txt","nodeType" =>"cm:content");

$data_string = json_encode($data);

$ch = curl_init('http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/-shared-/children?alf_ticket='.$ticket);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))
);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_errno($ch) !== 0) {
error_log('cURL error when connecting to ' . $url . ': ' . curl_error($ch));
}

curl_close($ch);
print_r($result);

What do I need to add to send a document in pdf?

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

narkuss — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 07:01:39 GMT

Sorry, I don't know PHP, you should find this answer somewhere else. The only thing I could tell you is that content-type should be multipart/form-data.

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

EddieMay — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:11:42 GMT

Hi @viperboys,

What version of PHP are you using? Also, what's the scenario where you will be using this?

Thanks,

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

viperboys — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:00:33 GMT

Ok, thank you very much!

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

viperboys — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:09:54 GMT

Hi, @EddieMay

I need to send a WordPress document to Alfresco. In wordpress I use a plugin called GravityForm to use form. To create the flows I use GravityFlow. The GravityFlow plugin has an add-on called WebHook for API use. At a certain step I need to send a document to Alfresco. This is the documentation https://docs.gravityflow.io/article/126-incoming-webhook

Thank you..

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

EddieMay — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:22:05 GMT

Hi @viperboys,

There's this library - there's a discussion here about utilising this library, which is an implementation of Apache Chemistry CMIS. There is an example php upload file here, with usage instructions, for another approach.

HTH,

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

viperboys — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:32:05 GMT

Hi @EddieMay

Thank you very much .. This has helped me a lot.

Finally .. What service can I use to create a document and that its contents are metadata of the form? And if there is any use case to use it in POSTMAN.

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

EddieMay — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:01:32 GMT

Hi @viperboys,

Postman - I use it to manually test api calls, easier than debugging Alfresco, etc. Here are two introductions -1, 2.

The Alfresco call will look something like this:

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/browser/root?objectId=d140f140-2701-4ca6-8a80-8cdc9cd3b72c&cmisaction=createDocument&propertyId[0]=cmis:name&propertyValue[0]=ThirdPartyFormApigee.jpg&propertyId[1]=cmisbjectTypeId&propertyValue[1]=cmis:document&alf_ticket=TICKET_3375c54fb50e6251d9e57f696483708ff9cc653a

obectid=d140f140-2701-4ca6-8a80-8cdc9cd3b72c = the destination folder id

The thing to note with CMIS is that you're actually creating a new document in Alfresco - hence you need to pass the content stream - in effect the document you're uploading is created as a new document in Alfresco.

Another thing to note is Apache Chemistry CMIS implementation does not support versioning - or at least as far as I can tell. However, this StackOverflow mentions it may be possible using a different library.

HTH,

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

viperboys — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:37:15 GMT

Hi @EddieMay
Thanks for your valuable help. Yesterday I tried to do the same but I have this error.

{

"exception": "invalidArgument",

"message": "Invalid form encoding!"

}
I am doing these tests with Postman
URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/browser/root?objectId=45a0643c-7f85-45d9-837c-b771edff2673&cmisaction=createDocument&propertyId[0]=cmis:name&propertyValue[0]=ThirdPartyFormApigee.jpg&propertyId[1]=cmisSmiley SurprisedbjectTypeId&propertyValue[1]=cmis:document&alf_ticket=TICKET_bd5a46d1fcf87aca154220f959d19d141abc0903

Method POST

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

EddieMay — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:55:10 GMT

Hi @viperboys,

I've just used Postman to upload two documents to my home directory in Alfresco.

Here is the generated PHP code from Postman:

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/-my-/children?alf_ticket=TICKET_53451c24e8042867a93f0d129bbd3b1f5e2a5a55",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array('filedata'=> new CURLFILE('/Users/emay/Documents/Alfresco - a developer led strategy.pptx')),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Attached you can see the files in Share.

Here's the code for uploading a jpg file:

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/-my-/children?alf_ticket=TICKET_53451c24e8042867a93f0d129bbd3b1f5e2a5a55",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array('filedata'=> new CURLFILE('/Users/emay/Downloads/eddie.may.jpg')),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Hopefully this should give you a start to resolving your problem.

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

viperboys — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:59:12 GMT

Hi @EddieMay

I am very grateful for your help. I am a little confused, this is because I am new to this area.

That php code was generated by Postman? How can I use it with postman? I have always used a URL, the method and send a JSON. This is how it worked for me but what you send me I don't know how to put it in Postman.

I hope you can help me. Thank you very much and happy day.

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

EddieMay — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:24:54 GMT

Hi @viperboys,

Don't worry - we were all new to this at one time. Some of us (like me) still are!!

The code I shared was acutally generated by Postman. The app has a "generate code" option - you can select the language & et voila! There are several languages available, including javascript such as Node. On my Mac the code button is to the right, below the Send button (see attached)

I'm thinking you can perhaps incorporate the url call & data into yourGravityFlow plugin WebHook.

HTH,

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

EddieMay — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:28:49 GMT

Hi @viperboys ,

In Postman I'd recommend getting the call to work - this will prove the concept that you can post a file to Alfresco using the Alfresco API.

Then in Postman you could begin to override the body of your working method to use JSON to include the file, authentication, etc. If you click on the body section and select Raw, you have json as an option (see attached).

HTH

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

viperboys — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:26:40 GMT

Hi @EddieMay

Now it worked. Thank you very much for your valuable help.

God bless you.

Re: I need to send a document of a Software for Alfresco

EddieMay — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:28:03 GMT

Hi @viperboys,

Great news & happy to help. Have a great weekend!