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Learning Alfresco Web Scripts

By : Ramesh Chauhan
Book Image

Learning Alfresco Web Scripts

By: Ramesh Chauhan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Alfresco Web Scripts
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Controller implementation – not mandatory!


The actual business logic for a web script resides in the web script controller. The main functionalities such as interacting with repository, for example, to query the repository, add content, update content, delete content, and so on are part of the web script controller implementation.

There are two types of controller implementations possible to implement while creating web scripts in Alfresco:

  • The JavaScript-backed controller

  • The Java-backed controller

The JavaScript-backed controller

JavaScript-backed controller is known as the web script controller script that has the web script business logic implemented in a JavaScript file. Alfresco provides a set of JavaScript APIs that can be used in the web script controller to interact with the Alfresco backend repository. A JavaScript controller can read the query string parameters of the web script URI, perform the required repository operations, and populate the model object to render the response.

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