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Why doesn't cmislib's getDescendants() retrieve all documents?

Steven_Huwig1 — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:43:26 GMT

I am currently using Nuxeo DM 5.7.2.

I would really like to use cmislib to access Nuxeo document metadata instead of the underlying database, but calls to getDescendants() do not retrieve the entire list of documents under a path. Is there a way to troubleshoot this?

Re: Why doesn't cmislib's getDescendants() retrieve all documents?

Steven_Huwig1 — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:44:13 GMT

I have looked into using the REST API as a substitute. It seems like sometimes the "totalSize" entry in the response is returning "-2" which makes no sense. This is consistent with the incomplete listings through cmislib, so I wonder if the two are related.

Re: Why doesn't cmislib's getDescendants() retrieve all documents?

rg1_ — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:47:02 GMT

Please provide more information...

Re: Why doesn't cmislib's getDescendants() retrieve all documents?

Steven_Huwig1 — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:53:35 GMT

I believe it's just retrieving one page of results for certain subdirectories. Manually recursing via getChildren() does return a different set of files.

Re: Why doesn't cmislib's getDescendants() retrieve all documents?

Steven_Huwig1 — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:25:27 GMT

One more data point

Re: Why doesn't cmislib's getDescendants() retrieve all documents?

rg1_ — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 02:55:14 GMT

Note that getDescendents() for Nuxeo CMIS has a default depth of 2.

Re: Why doesn't cmislib's getDescendants() retrieve all documents?

Steven_Huwig1 — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:15:06 GMT

Thanks for pointing that out, but everything I am trying to retrieve is in either the child or the grandchild of the path I'm passing in.