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Is there any way to automatically upload files from a folder?

Gerard_ — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:29:27 GMT

I would to know if there is any way that nuxeo upload the files placed in a specific folder.

Thanks.

Re: Is there any way to automatically upload files from a folder?

bruce_Grant — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:21:03 GMT

You can write a custom listener that runs on a timed basis. The listener scans the directory and ingests the files it finds in the directory.

For example...

// events contribution - this one runs once a day, but it could run on any schedule you need (e.g. every 5 minutes)
		
	<schedule id="concena_directoryimport">
		<eventId>importFromDirectory</eventId>
		<eventCategory>default</eventCategory>
		<cronExpression>0 30 6 * * ?</cronExpression>
	</schedule>	

	// listener contribution
	
	<listener name="concena_directoryimportlistener" async="true" postCommit="false"
		class="com.concena.core.directoryimport.DirectoryImportListener" priority="165">
		<event>importFromDirectory</event>
	</listener>	
	
	// listener snippet
	
	protected void handleDirectoryImportEvent(Event event) {

		:

		// 2. collect up files in the template import directory
		// read through the specified directory and load file names into an array
		File directory = null;
		String[] files = null;
	
		directory = new File(getImportDirectory());
		files = directory.list(new ImportTemplateFileFilter());	// filter limits collection to Office Word and Excel templates
	
		: 
		
		// etc. - get a CoreSession, walk through the files, create documents from files, log results, etc.

Re: Is there any way to automatically upload files from a folder?

Gerard_ — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:25:58 GMT

Thanks bruce, but I'm new in Nuxeo and I'm really lost. I will look at listeners documentation because I don't know where to start.

Re: Is there any way to automatically upload files from a folder?

Vincent_Dutat — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:43:58 GMT

Hi,

Laurent Doguin from Nuxeo recently posted an article about it on the Nuxeo blog, here is a link to it : http://dev.blogs.nuxeo.com/2012/03/monday-dev-heaven-multithreaded-transactional-documents-import-nuxeo.html