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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

Chapter 7. Understanding JavaScript-based Web Scripts in Detail

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What can you do with JavaScript APIs?

  • How do you find available JavaScript APIs in Alfresco?

  • Available root objects to access JavaScript APIs

  • Other root objects provided by the web script framework in Alfresco

  • A few code examples of some common functionalities in a JavaScript controller

  • Creating your own root object

The web script framework in Alfresco makes it easy to create, access, update, and delete content residing in the repository using JavaScript-backed web scripts. The JavaScript-backed web script will be very helpful when you need to do some kind of hotfixes without bringing down the production system. Another cool feature of JavaScript-backed web scripts is that you can have them deployed in the repository and can directly edit them in line using the Alfresco user interface. There is no need to depend on any specific editor while developing web scripts that have a JavaScript...