Passing Credential to Share REST API

[ddelapasse]

From my web app I would like to request the Share metadata edit form and grab the fields/controlTypes to pass over to my Web UI.  I realize there are CMIS/Alfresco apis to get the metadata, but we define aspects that reuse properties of existing content model attributes and only share (share-custom-config.xml) has the knowledge for the exact view/edit configurations.

So…I found that I can call the api if I am logged in, but no combination of ticket=, alf_ticket=, u= pw= …is allowing me to hit the url programmatically. Is there any way to do this?

I just want to pass it my app's credentials so the user doesn't have to manually login to ALfresco!
This is the specific URL I want to hit:

http://localhost:8080/share/service/components/form?itemKind=node&itemId={nodeRefId}&mode=edit&submi...}

[arak]

Hi,

You can use the API RESTful of Alfresco (webscripts of the repository layer).

Specifically, for the login, in your custom web application, you can use:

URL: http://IP:PORT/alfresco/service/api/login
Method: POST
Request Body: {username:"your-user",password:"your-password"}
Response: The ticket of your login (i.e.: TICKET_0524c0877175d3da841b0c6c48822e2ae3516824).
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And for the logout:

URL: http://IP:PORT/alfresco/service/api/login/ticket/TICKET?alf_ticket=TICKET
Method: DELETE
Request Body: nothing
Response: an XML response with code 200
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If you need get the metadata of a specific content (I suspect you know the node reference), you can use:

URL: http://IP:PORT/alfresco/service/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/NODEREF?alf_ticket=TICKET
Method: GET
Request Body: nothing
Response: An XML with the data of the content
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For edit the metadata, you can use:

URL: http://IP:PORT/alfresco/service/api/metadata/node/workspace/SpaceStore/NODEREF?alf_ticket=TICKET
Method: POST
Request Body (i.e): {properties:{cm:title:"your title",cm:description:"your description"}}
Response: 200
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But, I read which the experts recommend the use of CMIS for edit properties, aspects and the content in general. More information in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28804597/set-apects-via-rest-api-call-in-alfresco

I hope this help.

Greetings,
Pablo V.

[ddelapasse]

Pablo, Thanks for the nice reply, but I need to use the Share api and NOT the repo api. Your answer is definitely true for repo, but it seems that the Share api requires a different type of authentication.  When called from a browser I can make it work passing over the CRSFilter token and some other attributes, but hoping there's a simpler way to accomplish this from a Java application.  I don't need the ftl page to actually DRAW, I just want to get the html back and parse out what I need.

Thanks again for trying to help!