Can I use content staged in s3 with cmis? I'd like to avoid transferring the content twice. I'd use the s3 url as the content in cmis...maybe?

[gregricker]

We have content already is s3, the same place alfresco is using. Can I upload a document (meta data) and use the s3 url? This would avoid having to move the data more than once. I'm using cmis right now but if there another way I am up for that.

[afaust · Accepted solution]

There is no out-of-the-box support for creating a document via a client / CMIS and specify that its content is actually stored in S3. However it is possible to programmatically create a new node (document) and a content data entry that points to an S3 URL. You'd have to write some custom Java for this. If you used a custom metadata property in an aspect via which a client could specify the URL and your Java code (likely a behaviour / policy) read it from, you could create a solution that can easily be consumed by clients / end users (in a custom UI they could simply copy&paste the S3 URL that they know).