The current CMIS 1.0 specification does not address the dynamic metadata assignment like the concept of aspects used within Alfresco. In the Alfresco 3.4d Community release, an attempt to send a CMIS request to update metadata properties on fields which have been assigned via aspects fails.
For example, in developing the Formtek EDM module, we attempted to send a request to update the value for a property which was assigned to a document through the addition of an aspect.
An example of the CMIS request to update metadata and the associated ATOM document are as follows:
PUT /alfresco/s/cmis/s/workspace:SpacesStore/i/4073281a-5e9c-45cc-966a-4a2f32a933b8
Here the property edm:program_project is a property of a custom document type associated with the document via a mandatory aspect.
The request fails with the following error:
The WebScript has responded with a status of 400 - Bad Request.
400 Description: Request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect.
Message: Property edm:program_project is not a known property for type D:edm:engineeringDrawing
I was able to fix this by replacing lines 227-228 of the file/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/cmis/lib/modify.lib.js
with this:
For example, in developing the Formtek EDM module, we attempted to send a request to update the value for a property which was assigned to a document through the addition of an aspect.
An example of the CMIS request to update metadata and the associated ATOM document are as follows:
PUT /alfresco/s/cmis/s/workspace:SpacesStore/i/4073281a-5e9c-45cc-966a-4a2f32a933b8
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:cmisra="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/restatom/200908/"
xmlns:cmis="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/core/200908/"
xmlns:alf="http://www.alfresco.org">
<title>2d_house_plan.dwg</title>
<cmisra:object>
<cmis:properties>
<cmis:propertyString propertyDefinitionId="edm:program_project"
queryName="edm:program_project"><cmis:value>2d_house_plan.dwg</cmis:value>
</cmis:propertyString>
</cmis:properties>
</cmisra:object>
</entry>
Here the property edm:program_project is a property of a custom document type associated with the document via a mandatory aspect.
The request fails with the following error:
The WebScript has responded with a status of 400 - Bad Request.
400 Description: Request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect.
Message: Property edm:program_project is not a known property for type D:edm:engineeringDrawing
I was able to fix this by replacing lines 227-228 of the file
// is this a valid property? var propDef = typeDef == null ? cmis.queryProperty(propName) : typeDef.propertyDefinitions[propName];
with this:
// is this a valid property?
var propDef;
if(typeDef != null)
{
propDef = typeDef.propertyDefinitions[propName];
}
if(propDef == null)
{
propDef = cmis.queryProperty(propName);
}
