How do I recursively display all files and subfolders? - alfresco

Question

I'm using the Alfresco Rest Api but I can't find any option that would return the whole tree with all sub-folders.
I want to go down to the last file even if it's 'wrapped' in 3 sub folders.
Any ideas ?

Answer 1

Please refer categoryService to list all files in any nested sub folders. Here
nodeRef is parent folder's noderef
Using categoryService it is also possible to list all the children of a folder.
Collection<ChildAssociationRef> children = categoryService.getChildren(new NodeRef(nodeRef), CategoryService.Mode.ALL, CategoryService.Depth.ANY);

Answer 2

I don't think you can.
You could execute a PATH query though, since it can be written in a way to return all children, too.
For example:
var folder = search.luceneSearch("+PATH:\"/app:company_home/cm:Test_x0020_Folder//*\" AND (TYPE:\"cm:content\" OR TYPE:\"cm:folder\")");

Answer 3

Create a java baked webscript which will return the node of below object.
public class ReportNode {
private NodeRef currentNode;
private List<ReportNode> children;
private Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<>();
private boolean isFolder;
private String name;
private String type;
private List<String> aspects;
//Getter Setters
}
In above structure
currentNode represents the current nodered in list
children represents the children of a node
Other things are well understood.
Fill up the data in above linked list structure by node crawling.
For displaying the crawled data.You can use the below freemarker template.
<#macro recurse_macro nodeRef>
<ul>
<li>
<#print_properties reportNode=nodeRef/>
</li>
</ul>
</#macro>
<#macro print_properties reportNode>
<ul>
<li>
<a>Properties</a>
<ul>
<#list reportNode.properties?keys as key>
<li>${key} : ${reportNode.properties[key]}
</#list>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</#macro>
<#recurse_macro nodeRef=nodeRef/>
where noderef is root node of the linked list which is created by crawling the nodes.

Answer 4

To retrieve all documents you can use this service
http://localhost:8080/share/service/components/documentlibrary/data/doclist/all/site/XXXX/documentLibrary?filter=all&noCache=1521477198549
Or you can create your custom webscript and get nodes recursively like that for example:
/**
*
* #param type
* #param nodeRef
* #return true if node type equals or inherit from type <code>type</code>
*/
protected boolean hasSubType(QName type, NodeRef nodeRef) {
List<QName> subTypes = new ArrayList<>();
subTypes.addAll(dictionaryService.getSubTypes(type, true));
QName nodeType = nodeService.getType(nodeRef);
return nodeType.equals(type) || subTypes.contains(nodeType);
}
private void getNodesRecursive(NodeRef node, List<NodeRef> documents) {
if (hasSubType(ContentModel.TYPE_FOLDER, node)) {
List<ChildAssociationRef> children = nodeService.getChildAssocs(node, ContentModel.ASSOC_CONTAINS, RegexQNamePattern.MATCH_ALL);
for (ChildAssociationRef child : children) {
NodeRef childNode = child.getChildRef();
if (hasSubType(ContentModel.TYPE_CONTENT, node)) {
documents.add(childNode);
} else if (hasSubType(ContentModel.TYPE_FOLDER, node)) {
// documents.add(childNode);
getNodesRecursive(childNode, documents);
}
}
} else {
documents.add(node);
}
}