Integration of custom content

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madhu2710

Hi Friends,
I was trying to retrieve the content from the repository.I found a class FileContentStore (from alfresco code that I have downloaded it from its repo ) in which the content URL format
for file stores is defined as <b>store://year/month/day/GUID.bin</b>

This is how our content is stored in the repository.

The code which defines the hierarchy of storage of our content described in FileContentStore.java is

/**
     * Creates a new content URL.  This must be supported by all
     * stores that are compatible with Alfresco.
     * 
     * @return Returns a new and unique content URL
     */
    public static String createNewFileStoreUrl()
    {
        Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
        int year = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
        int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;  // 0-based
        int day = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        int hour = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
        int minute = calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
        // create the URL
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(20);
        sb.append(FileContentStore.STORE_PROTOCOL)
          .append(ContentStore.PROTOCOL_DELIMITER)
          .append(year).append('/')
          .append(month).append('/')
          .append(day).append('/')
          .append(hour).append('/')
          .append(minute).append('/')
          .append(GUID.generate()).append(".bin");
        String newContentUrl = sb.toString();
        // done
        return newContentUrl;
    }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Now that I want to change the path and the mimetype for the stored content from .bin to other formats so that it can be accessed from outside and retrieved.Is this possible ?

If I change this code here, how can I integrate and work as usual?
Please Help !

mikeh

It's a really, really bad idea to give people direct access to the contentstore files in alf_data. For starters, you could destroy any links between the content and the database, but also people could very easily be accessing old versions of content without realising.

Alfresco supports FTP, WebDAV and CIFS for external file access so you should be using one of those interfaces instead.

Mike