Access to document translations in a webscript

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dgenard

Hello,

I try to build a webscript displaying documents and their associated translations.
There is no specific Multilingual Content API available in javascript or freemarker, so I tried to navigate the relationships between a document and its translations.

But again, it seems that it is not feasible in javascript or freemarker.
All related translations are modeled as non-primary children of an ml:container node.
And javascript seems to be unable to retrieve non-primary parent associations of a given node.

As a consequence, it is currently not possible to implement a webscript displaying documents and their translations, without writing Java code, which greatly complexifies the task.
This is for my case a serious limitation of the built-in multilingual features of Alfresco 2.2E.

Did I miss something, or does someone have another idea ?

Thanks, Denis

robain

Hi, You might have already found a solution for this one by now. But posting a small sample code i prepared might be helpful for someone looking into this. basically i am trying to expose multilingualContentService. so here goes.

package com.someco.web.jscript;

import org.alfresco.repo.jscript.ScriptNode;
import org.alfresco.repo.processor.BaseProcessorExtension;
import org.alfresco.service.ServiceRegistry;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.ml.MultilingualContentService;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

import java.util.Locale;

public final class MultilingualScript extends BaseProcessorExtension
{
    private static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(MultilingualScript.class);

   private MultilingualContentService multilingualContentService;
   private ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry;

   public MultilingualScript()
   {
      if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
         logger.debug("MultilingualScript Constructor Called");
      }
   }   
    
   //path = path of the original document
   //language = required language
   //returns the noderef for the translation content for the given language   
   public ScriptNode multilingualContent(String path, String language, ScriptNode companyHome) {
      if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
         logger.debug("MultilingualScript - parameters - " + path + " , " + language);
      }
      NodeRef nodeRef =  new ScriptNode(companyHome.getNodeRef(), serviceRegistry)
         .childByNamePath(path).getNodeRef();      
      nodeRef = multilingualContentService.getTranslationForLocale(nodeRef, new Locale(language) );      
      return new ScriptNode(nodeRef, serviceRegistry);
   }

   public MultilingualContentService getMultilingualContentService() {
      return multilingualContentService;
   }
   
   public void setMultilingualContentService(
         MultilingualContentService multilingualContentService) {
      this.multilingualContentService = multilingualContentService;
   }
   
   public ServiceRegistry getServiceRegistry() {
      return serviceRegistry;
   }
   
   public void setServiceRegistry(ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry) {
      this.serviceRegistry = serviceRegistry;
   }
}
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<bean id="multilingualScript" parent="baseJavaScriptExtension" class="com.someco.web.jscript.MultilingualScript">
       <property name="extensionName">
           <value>multilingual</value>
       </property>
      <property name="serviceRegistry">
         <ref bean="ServiceRegistry" />
      </property>
      <property name="multilingualContentService">
         <ref bean="MultilingualContentService" />
      </property>
   </bean>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

hope that was helpful for some atleast.

Thanks
robain