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Alfresco CMIS

By : Martin Bergljung
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Alfresco CMIS

By: Martin Bergljung

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Alfresco CMIS
Martin Bergljung
Mar, 2014 | 272 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Alfresco CMIS
Alfresco CMIS
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with CMIS
Getting Started with CMIS
Understanding CMIS
Commercial products and companies supporting CMIS
The benefits of using CMIS
CMIS use cases
An overview of the CMIS standard
Summary
2
Basic CMIS Operations
Basic CMIS Operations
Setting up a CMIS server
Setting up a tool to make HTTP requests
Authenticating with the repository
Getting repository information
Listing the children of the root folder
Optional parameters when listing the children of a folder
Listing available types and subtypes
Getting metadata and content
Creating, updating, and deleting content
Summary
3
Advanced CMIS Operations
Advanced CMIS Operations
Version management with check out and check in
Managing permissions for documents and folders
Managing relationships between objects
Searching
A word on transactions
Summary
4
Alfresco and CMIS
Alfresco and CMIS
Timeline
Architecture/stack
Alfresco content model mapping to the CMIS object model
Support for Alfresco-specific features
Summary
5
Accessing a CMIS Server with a Java Client
Accessing a CMIS Server with a Java Client
Setting up a build environment
Connecting and setting up a session with the repository
Getting repository information
Listing the children of the root/top folder
Optional parameters when listing the children of a folder
Listing available types and subtypes
Creating, updating, and deleting content
Getting the content for a document
Copying and moving folders and documents
Working with Alfresco aspects
Version management with check out and check in
Managing permissions for documents and folders
Managing relationships between objects
Searching
Summary
6
Accessing a CMIS Server Using Scripting Languages
Accessing a CMIS Server Using Scripting Languages
Using CMIS in JavaScript and web application pages
Using CMIS in Groovy scripts
Using CMIS in Spring Surf Web Scripts
Summary
7
System Integration with CMIS
System Integration with CMIS
Integrating Drupal with a CMS server
Enterprise integration with CMIS
Talking to Alfresco in the Cloud via CMIS
Summary
Index
Index

Optional parameters when listing the children of a folder

The getChildren service call allows us to specify a number of optional parameters at request time. To control the number of content items that are being returned, one can use the following parameters in the request URL:

  • maxItems: This is the maximum number of items to return in a response. The default is repository-specific and Alfresco will, for example, return all content items if you do not specify this parameter.

  • skipCount: This is the number of potential results that the repository will skip/page over before returning any results. This defaults to zero.

These paging input parameters work in parallel with the following output parameters in the response:

  • hasMoreItems: This parameter will be true if the repository contains additional items after those contained in the response, otherwise it will be false. If true, a request with a larger skipCount or larger maxItems will return additional results (unless the contents of the repository...

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