Create WCF Web Services for Alfresco.

[bilalsaeed]

I need to create soap based web services for Alfresco in order to integrate with third party web application.

Required web services are as follow:

Service 1:

Input: custom metadata field

output: List of documents contain such metadata field.

Service 2:

Input: Document Id

Output: Base64 data of document.

Service 3:

Upload document web service.

Any suggestions? I am already exploring CMIS to achieve such requirements, any help for this approach would be appreciated.

[openpj · Accepted solution]

You can create your own SOAP stub using internally the CMIS protocol, the following references can be used also to test your CMIS client:

CMIS Server | Content Management Interoperability Services | Alfresco

Consider that Alfresco implements both of the CMIS bindings: REST and SOAP. But I suggest you to use the REST binding.

This means that you can implement you own wrapper that exposes SOAP messages but internally talks to Alfresco using CMIS-REST binding.

Considering CMIS you can match each service as the following:

• for the Service 1, you can use the Discovery Services
• for the Service 2, you can get the specific Stream for the content
• for the Service 3, you can use the Object Service

Please see the example in the official Chemistry project with also considering different languages:

Apache Chemistry - Creating and updating CMIS objects

Hope this helps.

[bilalsaeed]

So here's what I did. For Service 1 I used CMIS to query the document.

For Service 2) I created a POST based webscript to upload file Alfresco as I needed to create folders based on requested URL parameter and also needed to compress files before upload.

For Service 3) I used Alfresco API to provide me a stream which I converted to base64 later.