Comments on: New developerWorks article on cmislib http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2010/03/23/1145 Jeff Potts on ECM, portals, search, collaboration, and a bunch of personal stuff Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Automating useful tasks within a CMIS repository | Ditanauts http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2010/03/23/1145/comment-page-1#comment-92485 Automating useful tasks within a CMIS repository | Ditanauts Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:46:32 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1145#comment-92485 [...] further contributions from the community (or maybe even repo testing, hint hint).  Thanks to Jeff Potts for [...] [...] further contributions from the community (or maybe even repo testing, hint hint).  Thanks to Jeff Potts for [...]

]]> By: jpotts http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2010/03/23/1145/comment-page-1#comment-49074 jpotts Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:21:20 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1145#comment-49074 Nate, If you get a ticket back, you are authenticated. Once you get the ticket, you pass it in the alf_ticket argument on every request. When you pass it as an argument, it looks like this: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s/somewebscript?alf_ticket=TICKET_44740de7943f7bab5be61f787c62660ff3008299 An alternative is to use basic authentication. If you want to use basic authentication, exactly how you do that depends on the tool/language you're using. For example, in Python, the code looks something like this: # create a password manager passwordManager = HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() passwordManager.add_password(None, url, username, password) opener = build_opener(SmartRedirectHandler(), DefaultErrorHandler(), HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passwordManager)) Regarding your second question, I don't know what that "a" argument is, but let's assume you've got a node reference to an object. You could construct a URL that looks like this: /alfresco/s/api/node/content/workspace/spacesstore/a410c988-6b21-4875-83db-d03ce03661d7 And that would retrieve the object. If the object is plain text, you'll get the plain text back. If it is a binary, you'll get the binary object. In the case of cmislib, you can look at getContentStream to see an example of how it retrieves objects via CMIS and writes them out to the file system. Jeff Nate,

If you get a ticket back, you are authenticated. Once you get the ticket, you pass it in the alf_ticket argument on every request. When you pass it as an argument, it looks like this:

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s/somewebscript?alf_ticket=TICKET_44740de7943f7bab5be61f787c62660ff3008299

An alternative is to use basic authentication. If you want to use basic authentication, exactly how you do that depends on the tool/language you’re using. For example, in Python, the code looks something like this:
# create a password manager
passwordManager = HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
passwordManager.add_password(None, url, username, password)

opener = build_opener(SmartRedirectHandler(),
DefaultErrorHandler(),
HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passwordManager))

Regarding your second question, I don’t know what that “a” argument is, but let’s assume you’ve got a node reference to an object. You could construct a URL that looks like this:

/alfresco/s/api/node/content/workspace/spacesstore/a410c988-6b21-4875-83db-d03ce03661d7

And that would retrieve the object. If the object is plain text, you’ll get the plain text back. If it is a binary, you’ll get the binary object. In the case of cmislib, you can look at getContentStream to see an example of how it retrieves objects via CMIS and writes them out to the file system.

Jeff

]]> By: Nate http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2010/03/23/1145/comment-page-1#comment-49036 Nate Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:22:11 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1145#comment-49036 Jeff, I know that this is not the forum for this but with Alfresco, there isnt enough examples no matter how many hours spent. I have two question 1) How do you use REST to authenticate? I can use the URI such as http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/login?u=admin&pw=admin to get a ticket back via the url but that is all I can do because I cannot get authenticated. What would the code look like. 2) How would I use the following to retrieve a document? Do yo have any example? There is just so much that is not answered about this product. Could you please point me in the right direction? Thanks http://:8080/alfresco/service/api/node/content/workspace/spacesstore/?a=false Jeff, I know that this is not the forum for this but with Alfresco, there isnt enough examples no matter how many hours spent. I have two question 1) How do you use REST to authenticate? I can use the URI such as
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/login?u=admin&pw=admin
to get a ticket back via the url but that is all I can do because I cannot get authenticated. What would the code look like.
2) How would I use the following to retrieve a document? Do yo have any example? There is just so much that is not answered about this product. Could you please point me in the right direction? Thanks

http://:8080/alfresco/service/api/node/content/workspace/spacesstore/?a=false

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