Deficiencies of AddDocument() and CreateVersion()

Robert_Davies_(unlondonadmin_-_(deleted))

Hi.I think there is a fundamental deficiency in the LAPI operations AddDocument() and CreateVersion(). That is that both of these functions accepts only a FilePath as a parameter specifying the document contents.Now in the first case when the document is uploaded it goes with the entire file system path provided, e.g. "c:\temp\adoc.doc". I don't think this information will be entirely relevant to all the other hundreds of users. To avoid this you have to use the current directory which I hope you will agree is bad medicine.My more substantial complaint however is that they only read from files in the first place. Since (in the java version at least) this will resolve to the API reading the file from a stream, it would have been much more flexible to allow versions of the calls that accept an InputStream to read from when creating the document-version.In my case I am adding document content that is coming from alternative sources, at the moment I am having to commit this to a file while it gets added to the system. This is an extra layer of overhead and management that my application doesn't need.Would it be possible to add these calls to the next version of LAPI?Best regards/matt.

DeTeCSMAdmin_(Delete)_2274648

We noticed the same deficiencies and we totally agreeto add (or change) the methods accepting an InputStream.I posted this message to enforce your request.