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[VSC] Create/Read/Delete File in CMIS Repository via VSC Rest-API Client

August 21, 2023 August 23, 2023

API Specification: http://docs.oasis-open.org/cmis/CMIS/v1.1/os/examples/browser/

Helpful Postman Collection: https://gist.github.com/aborroy/3f1f2360b0e85067675643aa648a8112

Create:

@folderId = <myFolderID>
@fileName = <myFileName>

### Create Object
# @name object
POST http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/browser/root
Authorization: Basic user:password
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=boundary

--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="succinct"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

true
--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cmisaction"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

createDocument
--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="objectId"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

{{folderId}}
--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="propertyId[0]"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

cmis:name
--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="propertyValue[0]"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

{{fileName}}
--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="propertyId[1]"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

cmis:objectTypeId
--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="propertyValue[1]"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

cmis:document
--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="content"; filename=image.png
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

< image.png

--boundary--

### Fill Variable from Response
@ID = {{object.response.body.succinctProperties.cmis:objectId}}

Read:

### Get Object properties
GET http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/browser/root
?cmisselector=properties
&objectId={{ID}}
Authorization: Basic user:password

### Get Object content
GET http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/browser/root
?cmisselector=content
&objectId={{ID}}
Authorization: Basic user:password

### Get Object content stream
GET http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/browser/root
?getContentStream
&objectId={{ID}}
Authorization: Basic user:password

Delete:

### Delete Object
POST http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/browser/root
Authorization: Basic user:password
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=boundary

--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="objectId"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

{{ID}}
--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cmisaction"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

delete
--boundary--

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[VSC] Post form-data via VSC Rest-API Client

April 24, 2023 April 25, 2023

Next to the .http file in the same folder, place your .env for hostname and authorization and the file you want to upload.
The parameter name="file" stands for the key that the files should belong to.

### Post form-data
POST {{$dotenv hostname}}/my/endpoint HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic {{$dotenv auth_in_base64}}
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=boundary
Accept: */*

--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="image.png"
Content-Type: image/png

< ./image.png

--boundary--

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