Content Web Service

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Please note that this API has been superceded by CMIS (specifically, the CMIS SOAP binding).  It's use is no longer recommended. This functionality was removed from Alfresco in 5.0.b.

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This service provides read and write access to content streams.

Note: Options such as SOAP w/ Attachments and XOP are also being investigated.

Table of Contents

• 1 Change Log


• 2 Data Types
  
  
  
  • 2.1 Content
  
  


• 3 Methods
  
  
  
  • 3.1 read
  
  
  • 3.2 write
  
  
  • 3.3 clear
  
  

Change Log

• Content Web Service V1.0
  
• Content Web Service Future Additions
  

Data Types

Content

Content data type encapsulates the data associated with a content node and a particular content property.  It is made up of three main parts:

• Reference node - a reference to the node created
  
• string property - the content property QName string
  
• int length - the length of the content
  
• ContentFormat contentFormat - the content format of the content
  
• string url - a string representing the URl to the content
  

Methods

read

This methods reads the content from a content property on a node.

Content[] read(Predicate items, xsd:string property)

Parameters:

• items - predicate to the nodes to be read
  
• property - the QName string of a content property
  

Return:

• the content data relating to the content nodes read from
  

write

This methods writes content into the repository onto a given nodes content property.

Content write(Reference node, xsd:string property, xsd:base64Binary content, ContentFormat format)

Parameters:

• node - a reference to the node
  
• property - the QName string of a content property
  
• content - the content
  
• format - the content format of the content.  This is optional, if it is not passed then the existing content format remains unchanged.
  

Return:

• the content data relating to the content node written to
  

clear

Clears the content of a given property on a number of content nodes.

Content[] clear(Predicate items, xsd:string property)

Parameters:

• items- predicate to a set of nodes
  
• property - the QName string of a content property
  

Return:

• the content data relating to the content nodes cleared