I want to add a document in a subdirectory

viperboys

Hi

I want to add a document in a subdirectory. For example. 

I have a folder in -shared-/Test

I want to add a document inside the TEST folder

I would like something like that

http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/-shared-TEST-/children

Thank you

EddieMay

Hi @viperboys,

If you look at the api explorer - https://api-explorer.alfresco.com/api-explorer/#!/nodes/createNode - you will see in the notes about using the relativePath variable.

You can use the relativePath field to specify the folder structure to create relative to 
the node nodeId. Folders in the relativePath that do not exist are created before the 
node is created.

The code in the payload my look a little like this:

{
  "name":"My Special Folder",
  "nodeType":"cm:folder",
  "relativePath":"X/Y/Z"
}

The API documentation says, "The relativePath specifies the folder structure to create relative to the node nodeId. Folders in the relativePath that do not exist are created before the node is created."

I've just tested uploading to a named folder using PHP. My code is as follows:

<?php
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "http://localhost/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/-my-/children?alf_ticket=TICKET_1229b18962a93a9928878a7da424f19222f71df2",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array('name' => 'Eddie May Upload',
       'relativePath'=>'Shared/TEST',
       'filedata'=> new CURLFILE('/Users/emay/Desktop/Test/TEST TWO.docx')),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

The response was as follows:

{"entry":{"isFile":true,"createdByUser":{"id":"admin","displayName":"Administrator"},"modifiedAt":"2020-04-30T10:55:12.868+0000","nodeType":"cm:content",
"content":{"mimeType":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","mimeTypeName":"Microsoft Word 2007","sizeInBytes":11760,"encoding":"UTF-8"},
"parentId":"9191350a-cadf-4afa-95c2-24203a8d9475","aspectNames":["cm:versionable","cm:titled","cm:auditable","cm:author"],"createdAt":"2020-04-30T10:55:08.176+0000","isFolder":false,
"modifiedByUser":{"id":"admin","displayName":"Administrator"},"name":"Eddie May Upload","id":"adc1d7b8-7381-467c-9278-c10bb5e29ccd","properties":{"cm:versionLabel":"1.0",
"cm:author":"Eddie May","cm:versionType":"MAJOR"}}}

You can see in the screenshot that the file was uploaded to the Shared/TEST folder off the repository root.

So, this code will send a file using PHP to a named folder within the Alfresco repository.

I'm not sure of your full requirement, but it looks like you will have to figure out which folders to upload to on the fly, perhaps using https://api-explorer.alfresco.com/api-explorer/#!/sites/listSiteContainers to find the folders within a site?

HTH,

Screenshot 2020-04-30 at 11.57.27.png