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Should Nuxeo CMIS return a HTTP Status 404 for an object (repository) that does not exist?

janice_ — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:01:05 GMT

Ran the following command which attempts to retrieve repository information on a non-existent repository named "foobar". Nuxeo CMIS returns a HTTP Status 400 invalidArgument. Should a HTTP Status 404 objectNotFound be returned instead for an object (repository) that does not exist?

$ curl -uusername:password "http://demo.nuxeo.com:80/nuxeo/atom/cmis/foobar"

<html><head><title>Apache Chemistry OpenCMIS - invalidArgument error</title><style></style></head><body><h1>HTTP Status 400 - invalidArgument</h1><p>No such repository: foobar</p><hr noshade='noshade'/><pre> org.apache.chemistry.opencmis.commons.exceptions.CmisInvalidArgumentException: No such repository: foobar at org.nuxeo.ecm.core.opencmis.bindings.NuxeoCmisServiceFactory.getService(NuxeoCmisServiceFactory.java:65) at org.apache.chemistry.opencmis.server.impl.atompub.CmisAtomPubServlet.dispatch(CmisAtomPubServlet.java:213) at ... ...

Re: Should Nuxeo CMIS return a HTTP Status 404 for an object (repository) that does not exist?

Florent_Guillau — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:02:29 GMT

Yes we could return 404 (objectNotFound) in that case, as the CMIS 1.1 spec now says:

objectNotFound
    Cause: The service call has speci?ed an object, an object-type or a repository that does not exist.

Note that for CMIS 1.0 the spec was simply the following, so 400 (invalidArgument) was legitimate:

objectNotFound
    Cause: The service call has specified an object that does not exist in the Repository.

Could you open a NXP ticket for this improvement?

Re: Should Nuxeo CMIS return a HTTP Status 404 for an object (repository) that does not exist?

Florent_Guillau — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:03:45 GMT

Note that I haven't looked yet, but it may very well be that the fix has to be in the OpenCMIS library and not Nuxeo's code.

Re: Should Nuxeo CMIS return a HTTP Status 404 for an object (repository) that does not exist?

janice_ — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:19:30 GMT

Opened JIRA https