Node deletion issue

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bensonfungjava

Hi,

I would like to delete a space under 'Company Home' via Alfresco Web Service(WS) API.   I know the following link described how to delete a node, but I don't know how to create a Reference object and then get passed to the deleteSpace method.  Please help and give me an example.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/IngresTutorial_Alfresco_Web_Service_API_for_Java#Delete_a_node

Thanks

jpotts

Look at SomeCoDataCleaner.java from the Alfresco Developer Guide (and/or the ecmarchitect.com tutorials). That class does a query for objects of a certain type in a certain folder and then deletes them.

Review the entire class, but the parts you'll be interested in are:

Store storeRef = new Store(Constants.WORKSPACE_STORE, "SpacesStore");
….SNIP….
CMLDelete[] deleteCMLArray = new CMLDelete[rows.length];
for (int index = 0; index < rows.length; index++) {
    ResultSetRow row = rows[index];
    deleteCMLArray[index] = new CMLDelete(new Predicate(new Reference[] {new Reference(storeRef, row.getNode().getId(), null)}, null, null));
}
                
// Construct CML Block
CML cml = new CML();
cml.setDelete(deleteCMLArray);‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

That should be enough to get you going with CML and the Web Services API. But for stuff like deleting spaces, you might want to consider using OpenCMIS. OpenCMIS is a Java API that can use either a SOAP Web Services binding or a RESTful Atom Pub binding. The nice thing is that you can learn how to do it once and then you'll know how to do it for all CMIS-compliant repositories.

Jeff