CMIS

CMIS

CMIS is an OASIS standard defining services for interoperability of content management tools.

Reference: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=cmis

The CMIS implementation of Constellio is partial and based on the Apache Chemistry library: https://chemistry.apache.org/project/cmis.html

Supported queries

Constellio implements many of the CMIS standard queries. The description of each of these queries is available in the official documentation of the CMIS standard.

Directory Services

• getRepositoryInfo
• getRepositoryInfos
• getTypeChildren
• getTypeDefinition
• getTypeDescendants
• getChildren
• getFolderParent
• getObjectParents
• getCheckedOutDocs

Object Services

• Create
• createDocument
• createFolder
• deleteObjectOrCancelCheckOut
• deleteTree
• getAllowableActions
• getContentStream
• getObject
• getObjectByPath
• getProperties
• getRenditions
• setContentStream
• appendContentStream
• updateProperties
• bulkUpdateProperties

Versioning Services

• getAllVersions
• Checkout
• checkIn
• getPropertiesOfLatestVersion

Access Control Services (ACL)

• getAcl
• applyAcl

Use

Graphical tool: You can use CMIS Workbench to connect to the Constellio CMIS service. To download: http://chemistry.apache.org/java/developing/tools/dev-tools-workbench.html 

Instructions: 

1. URL for CMIS service: http://<host>:<port>/constellio/atom
2. Use Constellio tokens (see article Importing users, Generate a token). The username corresponds to the "serviceKey" and the password to the "token"
3. Code examples using CMIS (Java):
   1. https://github.com/doculibre/constellio/blob/master/sdk/src/com/constellio/app/api/cmis/rm/CmisTestMain.java
   2. https://github.com/doculibre/constellio/blob/master/sdk/src/com/constellio/app/api/cmis/accept/CmisACLAcceptanceTest.java
4. How to create a folder:
   session.createFolder() with the following properties
   'cmis:objectTypeId': 'folder_default'
   'administrativeUnitEntered': '00000000XXX'
   'categoryEntered': '000000000XX'
   'retentionRuleEntered': '00000000XXX'
   'title': 'Your folder title'
   'openingDate': '2018-02-10T11:52:53.294+02:00' 
5.   How to create a document:
   a) First create the form, of type cmis:folder with the following properties:
   'cmis:objectTypeId': 'document_default',
   'title': 'test.pdf'
   b) Then add the file of type cmis:document
   session.createDocument()
   'cmis:objectTypeId': 'cmis:document',
   'cmis:name': 'test.pdf',
   'metadata': 'content'

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