Alfresco

The Alfresco API

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The Alfresco API....................................................................................................................... 3 How does an application do work on behalf of a user?....................................................... 4 Registering yourapplication................................................................................................ 4 Authorization........................................................................................................................ 4 Refreshing an access token................................................................................................7 Alfresco CMISAPI.....................................................................................................................9 Getting Started.....................................................................................................................9 The domain model.......................................................................................................9 What does a request look like?.................................................................................10 Getting the servicedocument....................................................................................10 Getting information on a node...................................................................................11 Getting the children of a node...................................................................................11 Getting the contents of adocument.......................................................................... 12 Updating the contents of a document....................................................................... 13 Alfresco REST API.................................................................................................................. 14 GettingStarted...................................................................................................................14 What is an entity?......................................................................................................14 What does a request look like?.................................................................................15 What does a response look like?.............................................................................. 22 Using HTTP OPTIONS to get entitymetadata..........................................................23 API Reference................................................................................................................... 27 Networks.................................................................................................................... 28Sites........................................................................................................................... 30 People........................................................................................................................ 38 Tags........................................................................................................................... 49Nodes......................................................................................................................... 51 Copyright.................................................................................................................................. 64

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The Alfresco API

The Alfresco API
The Alfresco API lets you access content managed by Alfresco Cloud from your own applications. The API is RESTful, which means each call is anHTTP request, so you don't even need a programming language to try it out. You can just type a URL address in a web browser. It consists of two parts, the standard CMIS API, which lets you manage and access content, and the new Alfresco REST API which lets you manage Alfresco's additional features such as ratings and comments, that are not covered by the CMIS standard. All you need to get...