Examples use of DFS from scripting

Given the DFS exposes parts of the Documentum API as web services, it should be possible to consume the web services via scripitng (ala javascript of VBScript or even pelrscript). Basically any scripting language that can execute web service requests.

I'm looking for an example of such a script using the DFS interface to create a new document in a content server without using proxies, productivity layer, etc.

Just a pure javascript would be fine, but the point is something using the DFS without the benefit of any client-side "extras".

Does anybody have such a thing?

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ukdavo

Sorry, this doesn't answer your question but I would suggest that you consider DCTM's RESTful Services instead as it's a much better fit for scripting languages. There's also the AtomPub binding for CMIS. APIs and examples for both approaches are available on this site.

Regards

zhou_simonq

without DFS productivity layer, you have to consume DFS services using WSDL.

For the sample, it depends on which WS suites you use.

klamerus

My main reason for asking for a scripting example is to drop the use of the web services to the lowest, simplest scenario.

What I'm trying to avoid is examples that include the productivity layer or including remote proxies in Visual Studio or something, none of which "should" be necessary to use a web service.

It should be possible to use any web service directly without injecting any of these.

I'm not certain we'd actually use the services via scripting only, but we want to avoid the examples often provided that inject dependencies upon the client side which in the end just create a solution that uses SOAP for messaging, but is still "proprietary" to the supplier on the client side (as in the productivity suite).

At the same time we want exposure to the full functionality that was availability in the dmcl libraries.

In a nutshell, what we need to do is replace tens of thousands of lines of code using the dmcl libraries and we don't want to end up moving from that vendor-specific client-side dependency to another (but different) vendor-specific client-side dependency.

Gene

klamerus

Sorry. I don't mean to sound unappreciative in my last posting. I am. I just want people to understand what we're trying to achieve.

ukdavo

I recently had a play with DFS and scripting languages. It wasn't fun and I quickly came to the conclusion that complex W3C style web services and scripting languages don't play well together. For Java & .Net you can use the productivity layer or generate your own proxies from the WSDL. For scripting languages I would look into the RESTful API - I believe that it will eventually provide the same functionality as DFS. There's a JavaScript example at https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-4275.