Creating and managing collections with web services

HFCDev

Hi, 

  I think I have the answer already but wanted to double check with the list as I don't have enough time to build a test app.  Can an application create a collection, add items to it, then delete the collection all with Out-of-box web services?  More importantly, are there any gotchas?  The one I can see already is that the calling application will need not just the node ID but need to be able to retrieve the DAPI node (or node SDO) to add it to the collection. I presume also that creating the collection is just don by using the docman CreateNode() call and setting the sub type, parent, and name of the collection.

Thanks

-Hugh Ferguson

Kevin_Mark

Quoted Hugh Ferguson on 07/25/2016 03:36 PM:

Hi,

  I think I have the answer already but wanted to double check with the list as I don't have enough time to build a test app.  Can an application create a collection, add items to it, then delete the collection all with Out-of-box web services?  More importantly, are there any gotchas?  The one I can see already is that the calling application will need not just the node ID but need to be able to retrieve the DAPI node (or node SDO) to add it to the collection. I presume also that creating the collection is just don by using the docman CreateNode() call and setting the sub type, parent, and name of the collection.

Thanks

-Hugh Ferguson

Yes, you can use out of box Web Services to work with collections.  Here's a quick sample I wrote up in my unit test framework which shows to create the collection, add items to it, and deleting the collection afterwards.

        Node collection = DocManServiceInstance.GetNodeTemplate(ref fOTAuth, BASE_FOLDER, "Collection");    collection.Name = "My Collection";    collection = DocManServiceInstance.CreateNode(ref fOTAuth, collection);    CollectionItem[] collectionItems = new CollectionItem[2];    collectionItems[0] = new CollectionItem();    collectionItems[0].NodeID = 9102;    // node ID of a URL    collectionItems[1] = new CollectionItem();    collectionItems[1].NodeID = 5518;    // node ID of a document    DocManServiceInstance.AddToCollection(ref fOTAuth, collection.ID, collectionItems);    DocManServiceInstance.DeleteNode(ref fOTAuth, collection.ID);