Setting an aspect property using CMIS

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srowsell

So I'm working with Alfresco 4.1.7.3, and therefore CMIS 1.0, which means that I'm using the Alfresco CMIS Extension (as I have to work with aspects).  I've been figuring out what I can from online resources, and I bought the book by Jeff Potts and others, which is excellent.  But I'm trying to change a property of an aspect in this way:

if (alfDoc.hasAspect("P:ra:reportProperties"))
          {
             Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<String, Object>();
             properties.put("ra:department", "Accounting");
             alfDoc.updateProperties(properties);
          }‍‍‍‍‍‍

The last line of that IF block throws the following exception:

<blockquote>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Property 'ra:department' is not valid for this type or one of the secondary types!
   at org.apache.chemistry.opencmis.client.runtime.repository.ObjectFactoryImpl.convertProperties(ObjectFactoryImpl.java:398)
   at org.apache.chemistry.opencmis.client.runtime.AbstractCmisObject.updateProperties(AbstractCmisObject.java:343)
   at org.alfresco.cmis.client.impl.AlfrescoDocumentImpl.updateProperties(AlfrescoDocumentImpl.java:66)
   at org.apache.chemistry.opencmis.client.runtime.AbstractCmisObject.updateProperties(AbstractCmisObject.java:307)
   at com.someco.cmis.examples.CmisExampleNew.showFolderContents(CmisExampleNew.java:128)
   at com.someco.cmis.examples.CmisExampleNew.main(CmisExampleNew.java:65)
</blockquote>

I can state with confidence that the model supports this property.  Here it is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!– First namespace prefix in namespace array is used for model prefix –>
<model xmlns="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0" name="ra:reportAspect">
   <description>Alfresco Form Builder Project</description>
   <author>admin</author>
   <version>1.0</version>
   <imports>
      <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0" prefix="d" />
      <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0" prefix="cm" />
   </imports>
   <namespaces>
      <namespace uri="ra.model" prefix="ra" />
   </namespaces>
   <aspects>
      <aspect name="ra:reportProperties">
         <title>reportProperties</title>
         <properties>
            <property name="ra:reportName">
               <title>Report Name</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="ra:department">
               <title>Department</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="ra:frequency">
               <title>Frequency</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="ra:suffix">
               <title>Suffix</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="ra:uniqueIdentifier">
               <title>Report Unique Identifier</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="ra:date">
               <title>Report Date</title>
               <type>d:date</type>
            </property>
            <property name="ra:notInWorkflow">
               <title>Not In Workflow</title>
               <type>d:boolean</type>
            </property>
         </properties>
      </aspect>
   </aspects>
</model>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I'm hoping that someone can point out what I'm doing wrong in that last line of the IF block, because it looks to me like it ought to work.

Thanks,

Steve

kaynezhang

Since you are using cmis1.0  secondaryTypes is no avialable ,you can use Aspect Extensions,add update aspect properties like folloing

   List<CmisExtensionElement> extensions = new ArrayList<CmisExtensionElement>();

        CmisExtensionElement valueElem = new CmisExtensionElementImpl(CMISConnector.ALFRESCO_EXTENSION_NAMESPACE, "value", null, "Accounting");
        List<CmisExtensionElement> valueElems = new ArrayList<CmisExtensionElement>();
        valueElems.add(valueElem);

        List<CmisExtensionElement> children = new ArrayList<CmisExtensionElement>();
        Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<String, String>();
        attributes.put("propertyDefinitionId", "ra:department");
        children.add(new CmisExtensionElementImpl(CMISConnector.ALFRESCO_EXTENSION_NAMESPACE, "propertyString", attributes, valueElems));

        List<CmisExtensionElement> propertyValuesExtension = new ArrayList<CmisExtensionElement>();
        propertyValuesExtension.add(new CmisExtensionElementImpl(CMISConnector.ALFRESCO_EXTENSION_NAMESPACE, CMISConnector.PROPERTIES, null, children));

        CmisExtensionElement setAspectsExtension = new CmisExtensionElementImpl(CMISConnector.ALFRESCO_EXTENSION_NAMESPACE, CMISConnector.SET_ASPECTS, null, propertyValuesExtension);
        extensions.add(setAspectsExtension);
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I suggest you use a utils class  org.alfresco.cmis.client.impl.AlfrescoAspectsUtils,which is very convenient to   manipulate Aspect Extensions