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Upload a file in Alfresco Repository using php and curl

giancarlo

Hello,
I found in Alfresco web script lists

File upload
POST /alfresco/s/api/upload

and I'm tring to upload a file from local apache web server to remote alfresco 5.0.d repository.
I use a very simple PHP script:

$server_port = "8080"; // Alfresco port
$urlws = $server_ip ."/". $service_url ."api/upload?alf_ticket=". $ticket; // URL to Alfresco upload web script

$file = 'ico_html.jpg'; // File to upload

$postvars = array(
'filename' => $file,
'filedata' => '@'. realpath($file),
// destination = node reference of the Alfresco folder I'd like to use. I used Alfresco Node brower to find it.
'destination' => 'workspace://SpacesStore/1ec885f5-bc0d-450a-9d65-a70a888e345d',
'uploaddirectory' =>'/',
'description' => 'File example',
'contenttype' => 'cm:content',
'overwrite' => 'true',
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, $server_port);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $urlws);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postvars);
$connection = curl_exec($ch);

Conection is ok but alfresco response is:

    "code" : 400,
    "name" : "Bad Request",
    "description" : "Request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect."

I tried in a different way adding json instead of $postvars array:

$json = json_encode($postvars);

but with or without command

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type:application/json'));

the result is the same:

"code" : 500,
"name" : "Internal Error",
"description" : "An error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request."

"message" : "11170048 Unexpected error occurred during upload of new content.",

Have somebody some working solution?
Thanks al lot

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Accepted answers

adrie7tp1

Hi,

After some trial and error the following procedure works fine. Before you start:

1) be sure to have a valid user in Alfresco, preferably member of the group ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS;

2) create an upload folder in the Alfesco repository and find the full nodeRef of it;

3) put a test-document in the PHP directory you are using for this test, named 'test-doc.txt'.

Find my full PHP code below (version 5.4 where CURLFile is not available, so use '@' before the name of the file to upload). Note the settings of 'content-type' as well as the POST-field types in the CURL definitions.

<?php

// file upload to Alfresco repo, PHP version 5.4

$debug = true;

set_error_handler("customError");

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');

$ch = curl_init();

define ('USERNAME', '------');

define ('PASSWORD', '------');

define ('LOGINURL', 'http://--------:8080/alfresco/service/api/login');

define ('UPLOADURL', 'http://--------:8080/alfresco/service/api/upload');

define ('UPLOADDIR', 'workspace://SpacesStore/aa90950d-de65-4523-9adb-c2590a7d148d');

define ('TESTFILE', 'test-doc.txt');

define ('TESTTYPE', 'text/plain');

$logindata = array(

'username' => USERNAME,

'password' => PASSWORD

);

$data_str = json_encode($logindata);

// setup login (POST)

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, LOGINURL);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_str);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

//execute the the login request

$result = curl_exec($ch);

$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

echo 'Login: '. $data_str . ' ; Result: '. $result . '; The status is ' . $status;

$ticket = json_decode($result)->data->ticket;

echo '; The ticket is: ' . $ticket;

// setup upload

$uploadUrl = UPLOADURL . '?alf_ticket=' . $ticket;

// $args = new CURLFile($filename, $type, $filename); // does not exist PHP 5.4

$fields = array(

'nodeType'=>'cm:content',

'filedata'=>'@' . TESTFILE,

'type'=>TESTTYPE,

'destination'=>UPLOADDIR,

'uploaddirectory'=>'/',

'overwrite'=>true

);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $uploadUrl);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: multipart/form-data'));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

echo ' End state: ' . $status . ' Alfresco response: ';

print_r($result);

curl_close($ch);

function customError($errno, $errstr, $errfl, $errln) {

//Merk op: geen melding in JSON response TODO?

global $debug;

if (is_bool($debug)) {

if ($debug) echo " ERROR: [$errno] $errstr in line $errln" ;

}

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openpj

I'm sure that the following thread will help you

https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/web-scripts/example-restful-upload-using-curl-please-04082010-2201

Hope this helps.

luharry

hello ,i wanted to know it too.Did you solve your problem now?

luharry

hi ,i use your method successful upload some file to alfresco service, the key is that you must get $ticket by url(http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/login?u=admin&pw=123456 ).

adrie7tp1

Hi, I'm struggling with the same issue. Did you resolve it in the meantime? Please let me know. Adrie.

farqalit_nasir

Hi,
I got the ticket id too but the problem remains same
my script is

      $urlws = 'http://' . $user . ':' . $pw . '@' . $server . ':' . $port . '/alfresco/service/api/upload?alf_ticket=' . $ticket;
        $fileName = '123.png';
        $filepath = 'C:\xampp\htdocs\SuitCrmAlfresco_IssuesFixation\upload\123.png';
        $postvars = array(
            'filename' => $fileName,
            'filedata' => '@' . getcwd() . "\\" . $filepath,
            'destination' => $createFolderResponse,
            'uploaddirectory' => '/',
            'description' => 'File example',
            'contenttype' => 'cm:content',
            'overwrite' => 'true',
        );

        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, $port);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $urlws);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postvars);
        $uploadFileResponse = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));
        echo("<pre>");
        print_r($uploadFileResponse);exit;

And I got this Error

stdClass Object (     [status] => stdClass Object         (             [code] => 400             [name] => Bad Request             [description] => Request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect.         )      [message] => Required parameters are missing     [exception] =>      [callstack] => Array         (         )      [server] => Community v5.2.0 (re21f2be5-b22) schema 10,057     [time] => Oct 31, 2017 5:00:48 PM )

farqalit_nasir

hi adrie,
did you find any solution ?

aliiiiii

I'm using alfresco 5.2 the url of the api is different but perhaps the way it works and parameters are the same, here is a working upload file in php :

<?php

//DATA

$ticket = 'TICKET_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';

$dest = '-root-';

$pdfnode = 'becb7769-8db9-4e6b-806b-a2ec1f5830d3';

$server = 'http://localhost';

$port = ':8080';

$filename = 'demo.docx';

$type = 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document';

$url = $server.$port.'/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/'.$dest.'/children?alf_ticket='.$ticket;

$ch = curl_init($url);

$args = new CurlFile($filename,$type,$filename);

$data = array(

'nodeType'=>'cm:content',

'filedata'=>$args

);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

for the test the file i upload is in the same directory than my script

adrie7tp1

Hi,

After some trial and error the following procedure works fine. Before you start:

1) be sure to have a valid user in Alfresco, preferably member of the group ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS;

2) create an upload folder in the Alfesco repository and find the full nodeRef of it;

3) put a test-document in the PHP directory you are using for this test, named 'test-doc.txt'.

<?php

// file upload to Alfresco repo, PHP version 5.4

$debug = true;

set_error_handler("customError");

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');

$ch = curl_init();

define ('USERNAME', '------');

define ('PASSWORD', '------');

define ('LOGINURL', 'http://--------:8080/alfresco/service/api/login');

define ('UPLOADURL', 'http://--------:8080/alfresco/service/api/upload');

define ('UPLOADDIR', 'workspace://SpacesStore/aa90950d-de65-4523-9adb-c2590a7d148d');

define ('TESTFILE', 'test-doc.txt');

define ('TESTTYPE', 'text/plain');

$logindata = array(

'username' => USERNAME,

'password' => PASSWORD

);

$data_str = json_encode($logindata);

// setup login (POST)

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, LOGINURL);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_str);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

//execute the the login request

$result = curl_exec($ch);

$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

echo 'Login: '. $data_str . ' ; Result: '. $result . '; The status is ' . $status;

$ticket = json_decode($result)->data->ticket;

echo '; The ticket is: ' . $ticket;

// setup upload

$uploadUrl = UPLOADURL . '?alf_ticket=' . $ticket;

// $args = new CURLFile($filename, $type, $filename); // does not exist PHP 5.4

$fields = array(

'nodeType'=>'cm:content',

'filedata'=>'@' . TESTFILE,

'type'=>TESTTYPE,

'destination'=>UPLOADDIR,

'uploaddirectory'=>'/',

'overwrite'=>true

);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $uploadUrl);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: multipart/form-data'));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

echo ' End state: ' . $status . ' Alfresco response: ';

print_r($result);

curl_close($ch);

function customError($errno, $errstr, $errfl, $errln) {

//Merk op: geen melding in JSON response TODO?

global $debug;

if (is_bool($debug)) {

if ($debug) echo " ERROR: [$errno] $errstr in line $errln" ;

}