Javascript API - group membership

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stebans

Hi,

I would like to make a user member of a group depending on information extracted from ldap.
I use Alfresco 2.0 CE and I think the people API doesn't (yet?) support a setMember method, nor a createGroup method. Or this could maybe be accomplished through the Node API?

If not, what best alternative do I have? Is there a way to call the Alfresco repository API or the JCR API to add user to a group? it's impossible to script Java classes with importClass or importPackage, so do I need to add a custom Script API ?

Thanks!
stephane

kevinr

The good news is that Create Group and Add User/Group to a Group has been added to the JavaScript API for Alfresco 2.1.

For 2.0 now, you would need to create a java class that performs the service calls you need and configure that in as a custom javascript object using Spring:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API#Adding_custom_Script_APIs
You can then call that object from javascript until you upgrade to 2.1. You can get the code out from our public SVN if you want to see how the API has been expanded on the People object in JavaScript for 2.1 - then you can make your custom object very similar so the transition is easy for you when 2.1 comes out.

Hope this helps,

Kevin