How to select parent of a given type somwhere in hierarchy?

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mmalczewski

Hello,

My type ce:festival extends cm:folder. Inside of this festival there can be many folders with subfolders. Somewhere in hierachy there is a node for which I need to select ce:festival it is under. I do not know how deep it is - users can create as many folders as they want.

For example, it could look like this:

+ COMPANYHOME
    + festival (of type ce:festival)
        + folder1
            + folder1_1
                + folder1_1_1
                    + folder1_1_1_1
                        - my_node‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

or like this:

+ COMPANYHOME
  + festival (of type ce:festival)
    + folder1
      - my_node‍‍‍‍

How to get to "festival" having my_node reference? My xpath experiments do not seem to work.

mm

jayjayecl

Hi,

I'll assume you have Java skills for developing in Alfresco, that you have the NodeRef of your node my_node, and that you have a QName for your custom ce:festival type

you just build a method like that (it is not working of course, but it may give you a few hints) :

public NodeRef getAssociatedFestival (NodeRef nodeRef) {
   // Test if this nodeRef is of type ce:festival
   if(nodeService.getType(NodeRef).equals(QName_festival))  {
        return nodeRef;
   } else {
   // get the parent node of nodeRef and run this very method on it
   ChildAssociationRef cAssocRef = nodeService.getPrimaryParent(nodeRef);
   NodeRef parentRef = cAssocRef.getParentRef();
   return getAssociatedFestival(parentRef);
   }
}

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