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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition

By : Benjamin Chevallereau, Jeff Potts
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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition

By: Benjamin Chevallereau, Jeff Potts

Overview of this book

Do you want to create more reliable and secure solutions for enterprise apps? Alfresco One 5.x is your gateway to developing the best industry-standard enterprise apps and this book will help you to become a pro with Alfresco One 5.x development. This book will help you create a complete fully featured app for your organization and while you create that perfect app, you will explore and implement the new and intriguing features of Alfresco. The book starts with an introduction to the Alfresco platform and you’ll see how to configure and customize it. You will learn how to work with the content in a content management system and how you can extend it to your own use case. Next, you will find out how to work with Alfresco Share, an all-purpose user interface for general document management, and customize it. Moving on, you write web scripts that create, read, and delete data in the back-end repository. Further on from that, you’ll work with a set of tools that Alfresco provides; to generate a basic AnglularJS application supporting use cases, to name a few authentication, document list, document view. Finally, you’ll learn how to develop your own Alfresco Mobile app and understand how Smart Folders and Search manager work. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to configure Alfresco to authenticate against LDAP, be able to set up Single Sign-On (SSO), and work with Alfresco’s security services.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco One 5.x Developer’s Guide - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Planning the SomeCo whitepapers and ratings API


Before diving into the examples, let's plan the new API at a high level. The following table outlines the URLs, the HTTP methods, and the response formats for each:

URL

Method

Description

Response formats

/someco/whitepapers

GET

Returns a list of whitepapers

HTML, JSON

/someco/rating?id={id}

GET

Gets the average rating for a given whitepaper by passing in the whitepaper's nodeId

HTML, JSON

/someco/rating?id={id}&rating={rating}&user={user}

POST

Creates a new rating for the specified whitepaper by passing in a rating value and the user who posted the rating

HTML, JSON

/someco/rating?id={id}

DELETE

Deletes all ratings for a specified whitepaper

HTML

Tip

The API to create new ratings provides the option of passing the username as argument. From a security point of view, this is not ideal because you could provide any values. The ideal solution would be to retrieve the username from the authentication used...