How to get ACL of a content in alfresco? - alfresco

I am trying to get ACLs attached to a document in alfresco repository. I believe ACL are stored in solr index along with content.
I did some research and found out that CMIS provides ACLService as below.
AclService aclService = session.getBinding().getAclService();
But on alfresco repository side of things, there is no such equivalent.
Has anybody any idea on how to get ACL for a document.
Regards.

Permissions are stored in the DB but also indexed into SOLR to filter search results by permissions without DB access.
I guess you're looking for bean PermissionService interface org.alfresco.service.cmr.security.PermissionService:
Get all the AccessPermissions that are set for anyone for the given node:
public Set<AccessPermission> getAllSetPermissions(NodeRef nodeRef);
Get all the AccessPermissions that are granted/denied to the current authentication for the given node:
public Set<AccessPermission> getPermissions(NodeRef nodeRef);

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The information necessary to connect to the database is stored in the file
tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
in your Alfresco installation directory. The relevant configuration looks like this (for PostgreSQL):
### database connection properties ###
db.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
db.username=alfresco
db.password=secret*password
db.name=alfresco
db.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost/alfresco
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Edit: The Alfresco database is highly normalized. Some tables to start at are:
alf_store
alf_node
alf_node_properties
There are many foreign key constraints that reference other columns, for example:
alf_node.store_id references alf_store.id
alf_node_properties.node_id references alf_node.id
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Yes it is possible to get the list of workflows.
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GET /alfresco/service/api/task-instances?authority={authority?}&state={state?}&priority={priority?}&pooledTasks={pooledTasks?}&dueBefore={dueBefore?}&dueAfter={dueAfter?}&properties={properties?}&maxItems={maxItems?}&skipCount={skipCount?}&exclude={exclude?}
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We are seeking the most simple way for sending alfresco's audit log to elasticsearch.
I think using the alfresco supplying query and getting audit log would be most simple way.(since audit log data is hardly watchable on db)
And this query processes the effect measure as json type then I'd like to download the query direct using fluentd and send to elasticsearch.
I roughly understood that it would ouput at elasticsearc but I wonder whether I can download 'curl commend' using query direct at fluentd.
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