DFS Snapshot question

davidpizon

I am attempting to create a (non-inline) snapshot of a virtual document which my application will need to programatically traverse.

I've been trying to follow the DFS examples but am a bit confused by the function:

VirtualDocumentService.CreateSnapshot(virtualDocumentIdentity, assemblyDocumentObject, options)

Am I correct in understanding that the "assemblyDocumentObject" that is passed to this function *becomes* the snapshot object? The "assemblyDocumentObject" does not seem to change (it still does not have an object identifier) after the "CreateSnapshot" function is called.

If not, how do I retrieve (and ultimately traverse) the newly created assembly object?

I've included a C# project to highlight my question.

DocumentumSnapshot.zip

Burlacu_Dorin

You are trying to check the identity of the sent parameter. That's wrong.

vdService.CreateSnapshot(virtualDocumentIdentity, assemblyDocObj, options); // the parameters will not change during a WebService invocation

In order to get the identity you should get the result from the invocation of the service:

DataObject resultSnaphot = vdService.CreateSnapshot(virtualDocumentIdentity, assemblyDocObj, options);

resultSnapshot will have the identity that you are looking for. In order to retrieve the assembled virtual document you will have to pass to retrieve() method the assemblyId or virtualDocumentId with the OperationOptions containing VdmRetrieveProfile with ShouldFollowAssembly set to true.