Comments on: Curl up with a good web script

By: Jan Pfitzner

Jan Pfitzner — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:39:55 +0000

hi,
to refresh surf webscripts in Alfresco 3.3 use (add accept-charset & -language headers):
curl -s -d “reset=on” –header “Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8″ –header “Accept-Language:en” -u admin:admin http://localhost:8080/share/service/index

cheers, jan

PS: thanks to mike for his tweet

By: jpotts

jpotts — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:31:37 +0000

ecandino, Make sure you are doing a POST and check your content-type header. To debug further I'd need to see any stack trace that's showing up in your Alfresco server log. You might also be interested in my "Getting Started with CMIS Tutorial". And, depending on what you need to do, you might want to take a look at the PHP CMIS client Richard McKnight wrote and recently contributed to Apache Chemistry. Hope that helps, Jeff

By: ecandino

ecandino — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:58:09 +0000

Jeff,

When I use your command line to create a new object using CMIS ATOM it works perfectly. However I am now attempting to use it in PHP either by shell_exec or libcurl. I seem to be getting the 500- Internal Error each time I do either method. Any advice?

By: jpotts

jpotts — Sun, 30 May 2010 03:30:28 +0000

The only way I know of is to try to use it and check the HTTP response code. I also do not know how to reliably predict (or control) when the ticket will expire. So if you decide to use tickets you need to be in the habit of checking the response code and re-authenticating if the authenticated call fails.

Jeff

By: LouiSe

LouiSe — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:19:59 +0000

Hi Bill, just check my Curl based shell script to upload content to Alfresco repository: http://louise.hu/poet/?p=4529 (works with HTTP and HTTPS connections too)

By: Snig

Snig — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:43:21 +0000

Guys, anybody figured out how to find out whether ticket is expired or not.

You call a web script by http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/someservice?alf_ticket=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

It works perfectly when the ticket is valid, but once it is expired, alfresco authentication dialog pops up. Any way to find out whether the ticket is expired?

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:24:49 +0000

Jeff,
In your book you do an upload example (starting page 261).
What I’m trying to do is POST directly (eliminating the GET).
In my situation, I already KNOW the file to be uploaded. I’ve tried every combination of curl I can think of with no success. I always get errors with ‘formdata’ not defined. Very frustrating.

How can I POST a file directly? (without the user interaction part of the GET).

Thanks in advance.

By: Krista

Krista — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:48:24 +0000

Thanks!

By: jpotts

jpotts — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:38:33 +0000

Yes, but it isn’t as bad as it sounds. When you get the property value of a multi-value property in JavaScript, Alfresco gives it to you as an Array. So if you want to append a new value, you just grab the existing props as an array, append the new value, and then set the property to the updated array.

Jeff

By: Krista

Krista — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:35:39 +0000

Jeff,

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the help and the quick response. This worked immediately.

One more question – just to verify. Does this mean that if I assign 2 values. Then later I want to add a third I have to read out the existing 2 values, put them in an array with the third, and then assign them?

Thanks!

Krista