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Creating Users using JAVA API

yvinodh

Hi all,

I am using Alfresco 2.9.In my application i need to create users using JAVA API. Can anyone help me in this.
Thanks in Advance

Regards,
Yvinodh.

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pmonks

The Alfresco API Javadocs are available at http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/. I believe the services you'll need for this are the PersonService (http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/org/alfresco/service/cmr/security/PersonService.html) and possibly also the AuthenticationService (http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/org/alfresco/service/cmr/security/AuthenticationService.html).

Probably the best way to be certain of how to create users correctly is to look at Alfresco's own code that does this - this functionality is provided by the Administration Console component of the JSF Web Client.

Cheers,
Peter

yvinodh

hi pmonks,

Thank you for your reply.Your post was helpful for me.

I created user and groups using JAVA API. I implemented the code in SDK using eclipse . but i need to apply this code in my own application. Can you please help me in this.

Thanks and Regards,
yvinodh

pmonks

Web Scripts (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts) are the best way to remotely interact with an Alfresco repository. In this case you'd develop a "create user" Web Script (that calls those underlying APIs) and call that Web Script remotely from your application.

Cheers,
Peter

rivetlogic

There is an open source project called RAAR (CMA) that can be used to communicate with alfresco easily.
The Remote Alfresco API is a Java based API for developing content enabled applications, websites and plugins on top of one or more Alfresco repositories.

You can include RAAR as a jar file in your project and then the API's provided by it can be used to perform actions like create user and create group etc. You also need to inject an amp into alfresco.

for more information about RAAR: http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/cma/ . Also please go through the readme file.

- Praveen C Elineni

yvinodh

Hi Praveen,

I have injected CMA-AMP in my alfresco.war, i am trying to create the new user and add tat new user into the group. Can u give some links where i can find the sample codes to implement the same. In tat CMA-API.jar, there is method called authenticate which takes the repositoryUri as its one of the parametres. can u tell wat value i should pass for this..

Thanks in Advance,
Vinodh.

rivetlogic

Hi Vinodh,

I created a Java Application that uses RAAR- 1.7.1 (aka CMA) and Alfresco 2.2 Enterprise. I used Maven to create the project and include jar file dependencies.

Here is what the program does:

1. Authenticate to alfresco using RAAR
2. Search for a file given a name
3. Open the file and write content into it
4. Close the file
5. Open the file and read its contents
6. Dump the content on the console
7. Close the file
8. Create user group
9. Create user
10. Add user to created group
11. Logout from Alfresco

You can login to Alfresco WebClient and check the file manually to see if the content has been written into it. Also you can check the user and group creation.

I was not able to attach the zip file to this forum, but feel free to email me if you want the zip file. Here is how you do it by hand.

Instructions to run the project in eclipse:

Create the following structure on disk:

   ProjectName
      src/main/java/
         MainClass.java   
      src/
         main/
            java/
            resources/
            core/
               cma-core-context.xml
      pom.xml 
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Here is the MainClass.java:


import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Vector;

import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.StoreRef;
import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;
import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.api.SearchService;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.api.SecurityService;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.exception.AuthenticationFailure;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.exception.AuthorityExistsException;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.exception.CmaRuntimeException;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.exception.InvalidTicketException;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.AuthenticationServiceImpl;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.ContentServiceImpl;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.PeopleServiceImpl;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.SearchServiceImpl;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.repo.Node;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.repo.SortDefinition;
import com.rivetlogic.core.cma.repo.Ticket;

/**
 * 
 * @author Praveen C Elineni
 * @Rivet
 *
 */
public class mainClass {

   private static final String APPLICATION_CONTEXT = "classpath*:core/cma-core-context.xml";

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      ConfigurableApplicationContext configurationApplicationContext = null;
      AuthenticationServiceImpl authenticationService = null;
      SearchServiceImpl searchService = null;
      ContentServiceImpl contentService = null;
      PeopleServiceImpl peopleService = null;
      Ticket ticket = null;

      QName name = QName.createQName("{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}name");
      QName created = QName.createQName("{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}created");

      List<QName> properties = new Vector<QName>();
      properties.add(name);
      properties.add(created);

      List<String> requiredPermissions = new ArrayList<String>(4);
      requiredPermissions.add(SecurityService.READ_CONTENT);
      requiredPermissions.add(SecurityService.WRITE_CONTENT);
      requiredPermissions.add(SecurityService.WRITE_PROPERTIES);
      requiredPermissions.add(SecurityService.DELETE);

      QName nodeTypeQName = QName.createQName("{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}content");

      String spacesStore = "workspace://SpacesStore";
      String repositoryUri = "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service";
      String password = "admin";
      String userid= "admin";
      String fileName = "/tmp/rivetlogic.txt";
      String data;
      
      // variables for user / group creation
      String groupName = "RivetGroup";
      String userName = "rivet";
      String passwd = "rivet";
      String firstName = "Rivet";
      String lastName = "Logic";

      QName firstNameQName = QName.createQName("{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}firstName");
       QName lastNameQName = QName.createQName("{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}lastName");

      Map<QName, Serializable> props = null;
       props = new HashMap<QName, Serializable>(4);
       // homeFolder value must be a nodeRef
       props.put(firstNameQName, firstName);
       props.put(lastNameQName, lastName);

      configurationApplicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(APPLICATION_CONTEXT);

      authenticationService = (AuthenticationServiceImpl) configurationApplicationContext.getBean("authenticationService");
      searchService = (SearchServiceImpl) configurationApplicationContext.getBean("searchService");
      contentService = (ContentServiceImpl) configurationApplicationContext.getBean("contentService");
      peopleService = (PeopleServiceImpl) configurationApplicationContext.getBean("peopleService");

      List<SortDefinition> sortDefinitions = new Vector<SortDefinition>();
      sortDefinitions.add(new SortDefinition(SortDefinition.SortType.FIELD, "@{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}name", false));

      try {
         // Validate userid and password
         ticket = authenticationService.authenticate(repositoryUri, userid, password.toCharArray());

         /*      old search - deprecated in new release
          * 
          *       List<Node> nodes = searchService.query(ticket, new StoreRef(spacesStore),
          *         SearchService.QueryLanguage.lucene, "@cm\\:name:\"javaapi\"", true, true, true, true, true, 1, 100, sortDefinitions);
          *
         */

         // search for file with name "rivetlogic"
         List<Node> nodes = searchService.query(ticket, new StoreRef(spacesStore), SearchService.QueryLanguage.lucene, "@cm\\:name:\"rivetlogic\"", 
                                 properties, true, true, true, true, requiredPermissions, 100, sortDefinitions);

         if (nodes != null) {
            // file found
            for (Node node: nodes) {
               System.out.println("node: " + node);
               NodeRef nodeRef = node.getNodeRef();

               // get data from user
               System.out.println("Enter content to put in the file: ");
               BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
                 data = br.readLine();
                 br.close();

               // write content to the file
               InputStream input = new ByteArrayInputStream(data.getBytes("UTF-8"));
               contentService.writeContentFromStream(ticket, nodeRef, nodeTypeQName, input);
               input.close();
               System.out.println("Data has been written into the file /CompanyHome/rivetlogic.txt");

               // open file and read data and dump it into fileName file. - "/tmp/javaapi.txt"
               FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
               contentService.readContentIntoStream(ticket, nodeRef, nodeTypeQName, output);
               output.close();
               System.out.println("Reading data from the file");
               
               // dump data on screen
               InputStream file = new FileInputStream(fileName);
               br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(file));
               String str;
               System.out.println("Content of file (/CompanyHome/rivetlogic.txt) is: ");
               while ((str = br.readLine()) != null) {
                  System.out.println(str);
               }
               br.close();
               file.close();
            }
         }

         // create user group in alfresco
         
         System.out.println("Creating the group called RivetGroup");
         NodeRef userGroup = peopleService.createGroup(ticket, groupName);
         
         System.out.println("Creating the user called Rivet Logic");
         NodeRef userRef = peopleService.createPerson(ticket, userName, passwd.toCharArray(), props);

         // add user to the group created
         System.out.println("Adding RivetLogic to RivetGroup");
         peopleService.addAuthority(ticket, userGroup, userRef);

         // logout - invalidate ticket
         System.out.println("logging out. invalidating session.");
         authenticationService.invalidateTicket(ticket);

      } catch (AuthenticationFailure e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (InvalidTicketException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (CmaRuntimeException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (IOException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (AuthorityExistsException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }      
   }
}


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Here is the pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.rivetlogic</groupId>
  <artifactId>raar-demo</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <name>RAAR Demo</name>
  <version>0.0.1</version>
  <url>http://www.rivetlogic.com</url>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.5</source>
          <target>1.5</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </snapshots>
      <id>Rivet Logic</id>
      <url>http://mvn.rivetlogic.com/artifactory/repo</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>
  <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>com.rivetlogic</groupId>
         <artifactId>cma-api</artifactId>
         <version>1.7.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>com.rivetlogic</groupId>
         <artifactId>cma-impl</artifactId>
         <version>1.7.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
      <version>2.0.2</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

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Here is the cma-core-context.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

<!– 
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2008 Rivet Logic Corporation.
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
–>
<beans>
   <bean id="cmaUnmarshaller"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.mapping.impl.CmaCastorUnmarshaller" />

   <bean id="cmaMappingService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.mapping.impl.CmaMappingServiceImpl"
      init-method="init">
      <property name="mappingFile"><value>castor/mapping/mappingservice.mapping.xml</value></property>
      <property name="mappingConfiguration"><value>castor/mapping/mappingservice.configuration.xml</value></property>
      <property name="cmaUnmarshaller" ref="cmaUnmarshaller" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="restExecuter"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.rest.impl.RestExecuterImpl"
      init-method="init">
      <property name="cmaUnmarshaller" ref="cmaUnmarshaller" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="actionService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.ActionServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/actionservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="authenticationService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.AuthenticationServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/authenticationservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="classificationService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.ClassificationServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/classificationservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="contentService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.ContentServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/contentservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="dictionaryService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.DictionaryServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/dictionaryservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="nodeService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.NodeServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/nodeservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="libraryService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.LibraryServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/libraryservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="mimetypeService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.MimetypeServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/mimetypeservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>
   
   <bean id="peopleService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.PeopleServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/peopleservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="searchService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.SearchServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/searchservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="securityService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.SecurityServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/securityservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="transformationService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.TransformationServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/transformationservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="versionService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.VersionServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/versionservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>
   
   <bean id="workflowService"
      class="com.rivetlogic.core.cma.impl.WorkflowServiceImpl">
      <property name="serviceUri"><value>/cma/workflowservice</value></property>
      <property name="restExecuter" ref="restExecuter" />
      <property name="cmaMappingService" ref="cmaMappingService" />
   </bean>

</beans>

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On command line:

mvn package
mvn eclipse:eclipse

The above command will create an eclipse project that you need to import into eclipse. (File - Import - Existing projects into workspace - browse to this project - finish).

Download the plugin for maven and right click on the project and enable maven for the project.

On Command line: mvn clean package

Then Run the project as a java application to see the output.

To summarize the post,

Here is how you authenticate:

   authenticationService.authenticate(repositoryUri, userid, password.toCharArray());
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Here is how you create the user:

   peopleService.createPerson(ticket, userName, passwd.toCharArray(), props);
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Here is how you can create a group:

   peopleService.createGroup(ticket, groupName);
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Let me know if you have any questions.

Praveen C Elineni.

yvinodh

Hi Praveen,

you have used pom.xml, wat is the use of it. I am not using maven in my application.

when i tried to execute the code which u have given i am getting this error:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'cmaMappingService' defined in URL [file:/D:/Satyam.com/Satyam.com/WEB-INF/classes/satyam/cma-core-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.ClassCastException: com.rivetlogic.core.cma.alfresco.webscripts.mapping.CmaMapping
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.rivetlogic.core.cma.alfresco.webscripts.mapping.CmaMapping
   at com.rivetlogic.core.cma.mapping.impl.CmaMappingServiceImpl.init(CmaMappingServiceImpl.java:113)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeCustomInitMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1160)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1122)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1085)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:429)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:250)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:141)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:247)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:161)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:273)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:346)
   at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:92)
   at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:77)
   at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:68)
   at org.satyam.common.CmaCreation.main(CmaCreation.java:90)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Do we have to change the cmaMappingService bean values..

My Email ID is Vinodhkumar_Shyamsundar@satyam.com. can me mail your zip file to this Email Id.

Thanks in Advance,
Vinodh

rivetlogic

Vinodh,

pom.xml is used to add the project dependencies (libraries used in the project) and contains information about the project and configuration details used by Maven to build the project.


Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.rivetlogic.core.cma.alfresco.webscripts.mapping.CmaMapping

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Looks like there are multiple instances of CmaMapping class file trying to be loaded.

Please make sure the only additional jar files needed to run RAAR are: cma-api.jar and cma-impl.jar. Also the spring configuration file should be loaded only once.

There is no need to change cmaMappingService bean values.

I am attaching the zip file for you in an email.

- Praveen C Elineni.

charlesbronson

Hi, is there any possibility to send me also the zip file?

guido.giosa@gmail.com

Thanks in advance,

Guido.

rivetlogic

Guido,

The sample demo file for RAAr is available here:

http://docs.rivetlogic.com/projects/cma/1.7.1/samples/raar-sample-1.zip

http://docs.rivetlogic.com/projects/cma/1.7.1/samples/raar-sample-1.tar.gz

- Praveen C Elineni

charlesbronson

Hi Praveen,
I've successfully downloaded the project, tested and all have worked properly.
That's good. Just another question for you:
Do you have any idea of where can I find additional information about the raar project? I've found API of some previous versions, but nothing else.
Maybe additional examples, or something else.
I think it would be easy to request information to Alfresco trough this API instead start researching of how to use web scripts.

Thanks,

Guido.

rivetlogic

Hi Guido,

RAAR's JavaDocs are located at: http://docs.rivetlogic.com/projects/cma/1.7.1/javadocs/

We'll be posting the code to a real project that uses RAAR this week. Stay tuned

–Sumer

charlesbronson

Hi,

First of all thanks for the response.
I would be glad to know if there is a possibility to show me how to get all the content from a specific space throw this API. I'm not sure if this functionality is actually provided by it.
Maybe some workaround could be to make a search in a specific space and retrieve the content from it, but I do not know if this is possible also, I couldn't find the way to do this type of search.

If you have any idea, please let me know.

Thanks,

Guido.-

rivetlogic

Hi,

The way to do that would be through the search service. You'd basically need to craft a lucene query, pass it as an argument to the search service's query() method and get a list of nodes back.

For example, if you want to get all the files and folders inside of an Alfresco folder under 'Company Home' called 'My Folder' you could do something like this:

Create a list of properties that you want to retrieve for each node:

public static final List<QName> QUERY_PROPERTIES = new Vector<QName>(6, 1) {
   private static final long serialVersionUID = 5649490531607878780L;
   {
      add(ContentModel.PROP_NAME);
      add(ContentModel.PROP_CREATOR);
      add(ContentModel.PROP_CREATED);
      add(ContentModel.PROP_MODIFIED);
      add(ContentModel.PROP_CONTENT);
      add(ContentModel.PROP_AUTHOR);
   }
};
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Create a format string to hold your lucene query:

/**
 * Produces a Lucene query that would get all content and folder nodes, except system folders, within the supplied path
 * non-recursively.
 */
public static final String FORMAT_QUERY = "+PATH:\"%s/*\" +(TYPE:\"" + ContentModel.TYPE_FOLDER
      + "\" OR TYPE:\"" + ContentModel.TYPE_CONTENT + "\") -TYPE:\"" + ContentModel.TYPE_SYSTEM_FOLDER + "\"";
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Plug the path into the query string:

String queryStr = String.format(FORMAT_QUERY, "/app:company_home/cm:My Folder");
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Then execute the query method:

/**
 * Return a maximum of 100 nodes inside the given folder path
 */
List<Node> results = searchService.query(ticket, new StoreRef("workspace://SpacesStore"),
      SearchService.QueryLanguage.lucene, queryStr,
      new Vector<QName>(QUERY_PROPERTIES), false, false, false, false,
      null, 100, null);
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That's it. The variable "results" will contain all the nodes inside of 'My Folder'. You would also be able to extract the values of the meta data you requested using the Node.getProperties() method.

Hope this helps,

–Alaaeldin

rivetlogic

Hello,

You can now find a dedicated thread for RAAr here:
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=15360

And a homepage for RAAr here:
http://wiki.rivetlogic.org/display/RAAR/

There is also an OSS sample application using Alfresco and RAAr here:
http://wiki.rivetlogic.org/display/SCAr/

And a forum thread to discuss it, here:
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=15361

Cheers.

–Sumer

lrjava

hello.

i have tried using the raar-demo app. I encountered a problem.

please tell me if I need to configure something in Alfresco.

[SETUP]
alfresco 3.0.C
localhost:8080/alfresco is ok. i can access using admin/admin account (specified in the sample app).
localhost:8080/alfresco/service is ok. it says "Web Script Home" and "258 Web Scripts".

[RESULT] running the raar-demo mainClass…
com.rivetlogic.core.cma.exception.AuthenticationFailure: com.rivetlogic.core.cma.exception.CmaRuntimeException
…
<title>Web Script Status 404 - Not Found</title>

regards,
lr

Guido,

The sample demo file for RAAr is available here:

http://docs.rivetlogic.com/projects/cma/1.7.1/samples/raar-sample-1.zip

http://docs.rivetlogic.com/projects/cma/1.7.1/samples/raar-sample-1.tar.gz

- Praveen C Elineni

rivetlogic

Hi,

We've seen a problem with Alfresco's 3.0 Community version (downloaded from the Alfresco website). Check your logs to make sure this is not the problem you're facing.

Basically the Alfresco 3.0 Community download is missing the following method:

org.alfresco.service.cmr.security.AccessPermission.getPosition()

This method is available in the Enterprise version which is what we test RAAr against.

Therefore your options are to:

- Use a free trial Alfresco Enterprise 3.0 version

OR

- Checkout the HEAD of the Alfresco Community source from SVN and verify that this method is there, then compile/build alfresco.war

Hope this helps,

–Alaaeldin

deardooley

Hey all, thanks in advance for the help. I'm writing a file movement utility using the RAAR 1.5 api and Alf 2.1. I'm noticing that when a node is copied in the same folder, the paths of the two nodes remain identical. How does one change the path of the new node once it's created. Also, is there a way to copy a node and specify the new name?

Rion

jmluy

How do you change the password for the users programatically?

rivetlogic

Hi,

Hey all, thanks in advance for the help. I'm writing a file movement utility using the RAAR 1.5 api and Alf 2.1. I'm noticing that when a node is copied in the same folder, the paths of the two nodes remain identical. How does one change the path of the new node once it's created?

Not sure I understand what you mean by identical paths. Can you give an example?

Also, is there a way to copy a node and specify the new name?

Yes, you could use the NodeService to copy as usual then rename the document:

NodeRef rename(Ticket ticket, NodeRef nodeRef, String newName)‍

Hope this helps,

–Alaaeldin

lrjava

How do you change the password for the users programatically?

i have the same problem…

has anyone solved this problem?

thanks.

rivetlogic

The bad news is: there isn't a method for that at the moment.

The good news is: we'll add one and release a new version, 1.10.0, (hopefully this weekend).

I created a JIRA for this, you can track it here:
http://issues.rivetlogic.org/browse/CMA-40

You'll also be interested in this (makes it easier to add a user to a group, this is also planned for 1.10.0):
http://issues.rivetlogic.org/browse/CMA-39

Cheers.

–Sumer

jmluy

Thanks Sumer, will be waiting for 1.10.0

rivetlogic

RAAr version 1.10.0 is out.

Changelog: http://wiki.rivetlogic.com/display/RAAR/Change+Log

Download: http://wiki.rivetlogic.org/display/RAAR/Downloads

Cheers.

–Sumer

lrjava

thank you very much for the release.

perhaps, my usages for the setting of password were unclear (my mistake).
i am looking at the code for 1.10.0, i am not sure if the following scenarios are applicable
1. force reset / forgot password (no old password required)
2. triggered by admin (no old password required)

i will try to perform test and post my results later.

regards

rivetlogic

1.11.0 will be out tomorrow night (best guess). It'll have more coverage for user/password admin.

Stay tuned.

–Sumer

rivetlogic

RAAr version 1.11.0 is out.

Changelog: http://wiki.rivetlogic.com/display/RAAR/Change+Log

Download: http://wiki.rivetlogic.org/display/RAAR/Downloads

Cheers.

–Sumer

gerrit

Hi all

I am still struggling with creating a user, using the java api, and logging in with that user from the ui.

I am running webscripts backed by java and output to a xml freemarker template. Now I have managed to authenticate as admin using the AuthenticationService then creating a person object using createPerson() from the PersonService. It creates the person object and a home space for the person in \Company Home\User Homes\[user name] with all the properties I define, but still i cannot log in as this person.

From what I've read in the forum and the wiki etc. I've come to realise that the person object holds no account properties, ie password etc. So therefore there is a need to associate a user object with this person object.

My question now is, am I on the right track? and if so, How do I create a user object and associate it with the person object, so that I can log into the alfresco UI as this person?
If I'm completely off track please tell me and guide me in the right way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Regards
Gerrit

rivetlogic

Hi,

In AFS (Alfresco Foundation Services) you need to make a number of calls to create a new user fully:

// create the node to represent the Person
NodeRef newPerson = this.personService.createPerson(props);
           
// ensure the user can access their own Person object
this.permissionService.setPermission(newPerson, authority, permissionService.getAllPermission(), true);
           
// create the ACEGI Authentication instance for the new user
this.authenticationService.createAuthentication(authority, password.toCharArray());
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Hope this helps,

–Alaaeldin

gerrit

Thank you Alaaeldin

Your post was most helpful!!!

was just missing the line:
this.permissionService.setPermission(newPerson, authority, permissionService.getAllPermission(), true);

Appreciate the help alot!

Regards
Gerrit