Availablity of NodeService in Share (or best way to query for a child node)

[rhinmass]

I am trying to understand the best way, from a Share webscript, to obtain a specific child node when the parent node and child name is known.

I have tried to use the NodeService, as in http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/NodeRef_cookbook , but I am having trouble getting the NodeService injected into my webscript.  Is there a way to use NodeService from share?

The other way I have tried is using the SearchService with a lucene query.  This is sub-opimal because the lucene query returns a fuzzy match.  Therefore to get an exact match I have to cycle through the results pulling out the name and doing a string compare with the target name.

Is this the best way to go about this task?

I am using Alfresco 4.2.c

[mrogers]

No the node service is not available in share.   There are however lots of webscripts to navigate by path.   Or list children etc.

You shouldn't use search.

[rhinmass]

Thanks for the tip!  I figured there must be a better way, but haven't been able to figure it out. Can you tell me the name of the webscript or provide an example. 

[yogeshpj]

As such there is no direct webscript for getting child by name from the folder. You need to create your own repository webscript to achieve it.

[rhinmass]

Yes that is exactly what I'm working on.  But I am having trouble figuring out how to retrieve to a child node within a folder when the parent folder and name are known, without using NodeService or SearchService.

[yogeshpj]

It is not possible without using NodeService. Can you tell me why you dont want to use NodeService ?

[kaynezhang]

You can use /cmis/query to issue  a CMIS query statement to find a folder node by name.
and then use following api to  get children contained in the specified folder.

  <!– by object id –>
  <url>/cmis/i/{id}/children?types={types?}&amp;filter={filter?}&amp;skipCount={skipCount?}&amp;maxItems={maxItems?}&amp;includeAllowableActions={includeAllowableActions?}&amp;includeRelationships={includeRelationships?}&amp;renditionFilter={renditionFilter?}&amp;orderBy={orderBy?}</url>
  <url>/cmis/s/{store}/i/{id}/children?types={types?}&amp;filter={filter?}&amp;skipCount={skipCount?}&amp;maxItems={maxItems?}&amp;includeAllowableActions={includeAllowableActions?}&amp;includeRelationships={includeRelationships?}&amp;renditionFilter={renditionFilter?}&amp;orderBy={orderBy?}</url>
  <!– by path –>
  <url>/cmis/p{path}/children?types={types?}&amp;filter={filter?}&amp;skipCount={skipCount?}&amp;maxItems={maxItems?}&amp;includeAllowableActions={includeAllowableActions?}&amp;includeRelationships={includeRelationships?}&amp;renditionFilter={renditionFilter?}&amp;orderBy={orderBy?}</url>
  <url>/cmis/s/{store}/p{path}/children?types={types?}&amp;filter={filter?}&amp;skipCount={skipCount?}&amp;maxItems={maxItems?}&amp;includeAllowableActions={includeAllowableActions?}&amp;includeRelationships={includeRelationships?}&amp;renditionFilter={renditionFilter?}&amp;orderBy={orderBy?}</url>
  <!– alfresco style –>
  <url>/api/node/{store_type}/{store_id}/{id}/children?types={types?}&amp;filter={filter?}&amp;skipCount={skipCount?}&amp;maxItems={maxItems?}&amp;includeAllowableActions={includeAllowableActions?}&amp;includeRelationships={includeRelationships?}&amp;renditionFilter={renditionFilter?}&amp;orderBy={orderBy?}</url>
  <url>/api/path/{store_type}/{store_id}/{nodepath}/children?types={types?}&amp;filter={filter?}&amp;skipCount={skipCount?}&amp;maxItems={maxItems?}&amp;includeAllowableActions={includeAllowableActions?}&amp;includeRelationships={includeRelationships?}&amp;renditionFilter={renditionFilter?}&amp;orderBy={orderBy?}</url>
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