calling upload webscript using ajax and json callback

[harshit_kapoor]

Hi All,

I am new to Alfresco.
My requirement is that I need to upload file (from my webclient IE9 HTML4) to Alfresco and get an id back with which it can be accessed later.
I think the above can be achieved by using Upload webscript (POST for data to http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/upload).
This webscript returns Json back. I need to parse this Json and fetch noderef.


I need to do this using AJAX (jquery or XMLHTTPRequest).

I found that webscripts that return Json can use alf_callback to handle the reply.
I created very rudimentary html page to test this out.
In a post I saw that in order to get the alf_callback to work, we need to enable it using custom-web-context.xml.

I am not able to get the custom-web-context.xml configured properly

I tried the following:
<beans>

     <bean id="webscripts.container" class="org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.TenantRepositoryContainer" parent="baseAlfrescoRepositoryContainer" init-method="setup">
      <property name="name"><value>Repository</value></property>
      <property name="allowCallbacks"><value>true</value></property>
    </bean>
         
</beans>

and the following:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<beans>

      <bean id="webscripts.container" parent="webscripts.abstractcontainer" class="org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.PresentationContainer">
      <property name="name"><value>Repository</value></property>
      <property name="allowCallbacks"><value>true</value></property>
    </bean>
         
</beans>

But both did not work.
I am not able to get the custom-web-context.xml configured properly.

Could you please help?

Thanks
Harshit

[sumitsharma]

Hello There,

I need to integrate the "webscript" methods with my applcation and i can do that only by using Alfresco's exposed "REST/SOAP" API's. I see many topics on the Alfresco site but did't find a good documentation.

Kindly provide me a link/documentation from where i can easily use the methods exposed REST/SOAP API's and use it in my application.

Thanks,
Sumit Kumar

[muralidharand]

To integrate with third part application, you can CMIS instead of using webscript.

[hdalang]

I also need to know how to start deploying using webscript. please complete the topic if you find a solution for that.