Greetings to the community! I am using alfresco Community Edition 6.0.0 with the Apache Chemistry API. I have successfully managed so far to create/fetch content from the alfresco repository through it (Folder and Document files).
Now what I would like to do is use the Apache Chemistry API to create an alfresco site (like I would do using the alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/sites POST method in the Alfresco REST API).
Is that feasible?? What I have done following the way I already created folders in the repository is:
Folder folder = retrieveSitesFolder(); // this returns the folder object using the node id of the "Sites" node
Map<String, Object> props = new HashMap<String, Object>();
props.put(PropertyIds.OBJECT_TYPE_ID, "F:st:site"); //this is recognized fine
props.put("st:siteVisibility", "PUBLIC");
props.put("st:sitePreset", "something");
props.put("cmis:name", "something");
Folder subFolder = folder.createFolder(props);
I am following the site model from here concerning the properties I add https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/COMMUNITYTAGS/V4.2a/root/projects/repository/config/alfresco/model/siteModel.xml
Unfortunately, when I run this piece of code I get the following error:
Exception in thread "main" org.apache.chemistry.opencmis.commons.exceptions.CmisRuntimeException: 10290059 Site something does not exist.
which seems to me very strange as what I expect my code to do is create that site not search for it in anyway.
What makes this more strange is when I created a site with name "something" via the REST API and re-run the code, the code run successfully, but I did not get any extra site in the alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/sites endpoint of the REST API.
Could anyone shed some light on this please? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
As Gagravarr says the API hasn't supported creating functional sites until, as Billerby pointed out, the REST API made some improvements.
Apache Chemistry has no idea what a site is, but, as you've discovered, an st:site is just a child type of cm:folder.
Despite that this is most likely not going to work via CMIS, I wanted to point out that you are using "something" for site preset. That is not going to work unless you've defined a new site preset called "something".
By default, there is a single out-of-the-box site preset called "site-dashboard" which is the ID for the "Collaboration Site" preset.
You might change your st:sitePreset to "site-dashboard" and see if you get any further.