Retrieving ACL permissions using Documentum REST API

Fernando C

Hello, as part of the web app I am developing, I am attempting to retrieve the ACL permissions on documents. When the current ACL name of that document is in the format of "dm_xxxxxxxxx", I am able to retrieve the ACL for those by passing the string of characters after the underscore to the API to get the permissions successfully.

However, for ACL names that are user-defined and not auto-generated (for example: an ACL name of "mis Public", which does exist in the environment I am working in) the API returns a 404 message indicating the ACL matching that ACL ID could not be found ("status": 404,    "code": "E_RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND",    "message": "The operation failed because the resource specified by ID, name, type, or path cannot be found.",    "details": "(DM_API_E_BADID) Bad ID given: mis Public"). How can I retrieve the ACL for these kinds of documents?

Hicham Bahi

If you want the complete ACL definition, you can use the acl resource. You can provide a filter to define the ACL. In Documentum, an ACL is uniquely defined by its name and domain which correspond to the dm_acl object_name and owner_name respectively (which are mapped to dm_sysobject via acl_name and acl_domain).

Internal ACLs happen to include their r_object_id in their name but it's not the case for other ACLs.