Question

I am using Freshdocs for Android

I can login to the Alfresco server using this API call:

GET /alfresco/service/api/login?u={username}&pw={password?}

But how do I create a new folder in Alfresco?

Answer 1

There are two main options, but it’ll depend on what else you want to do, and what version of Alfresco you’re running.

Assuming you want to keep things very simple, and you just want to create one folder, and you’re using Alfresco 4.1 or later, then you can use the org.alfresco.repository.node.folder.post webscript. For this, simply post JSON like either

 { "name": "NewNodeName" }

or

{  
   "name": "NewNodeName",
   "title": "New Node Title",
   "description": "A shiny new node",
   "type": "cm:folder"
}

To the API, which takes a URL like /api/site/folder/{site}/{container}/{path}

Alternately, if you want to do a number of different file and folder operations (eg navigate the folder structure, create a folder, upload a file to it etc), then you should instead use CMIS. Apache Chemistry is a great library to use for CMIS, and it even has an Android client! The docs for the android client are still being written thought (the Android port was only just added), so you might need to ask on the mailing list if you don’t have time to wait for the docs.