Hi Karl, Thanks for your reply. I do have a question regarding how I plan to use ManifoldCF. My reason for writing a connector is to connect to livelink servers in a lightweight mechanism and integrate it with an enterprse application which will then process the documents crawled from the connection. The enterprise application has a fully functional user interface and its own data storage mechanism. The intent here is to integrate ManifoldCF's pull agent by crawling Livelink server based sources and to use ManifoldCF's output connection capability (file system based) to write to a local file system. The file system will then act as the source of the data for the enterprise application. The intent is to not use the full capability of the ManifoldCF application (i.e no UI, and if possible, no database), if possible, but to integrate it into an existing application as a crawler of Livelink server based sources.
Based on your reply to my previous email, I assume there is no java based API to perform the above mentioned integration. I would like to ask if it's possible to perform the above integration with the rest API. I have been consulting the documentation from the ManifoldCF pages, but I'm very confused at this point. It would help me a great deal if you could provide me some ideas/bread crumbs on how the above can be implemented via ManifoldCF. Thanks, Pranesh Vadhirajan -----Original Message----- From: Karl Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 12:41 PM To: Pranesh Vadhirajan; [email protected] Subject: RE: How to connecto to LiveLink server via Java API Manifoldcf is not a library but is instead a full application. You do not want to be using a connector by itself; you need the rest of the application as well. You can configure a livelink connection either using the UI or the rest API. Please consult the documentation. Karl Sent from my Windows Phone From: Pranesh Vadhirajan Sent: 7/28/2013 11:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: How to connecto to LiveLink server via Java API Hi Everyone, I'm very new to ApacheManifoldCF. I'm writing code to build a connector to a LiveLink server. I have been looking at the online java docs for ManifoldCF's LiveLink connector, but I'm confused on how to use the API. It's my understanding that the class LiveLinkConnector from the package org.apache.manifoldcf.crawler.connectors.livelink can be used to connect to a LiveLink server. But this class seems to require configuration parameters that are set in the configParams class of the package org.apache.manifoldcf.core.interfaces. If this is the case, how can I set the configuration parameters of my LiveLink server connection using this approach? Also, is there a better approach to do this? I'm very unclear on how to write the connection. I am building an Eclipse based project and I have already done an ant build of all the ManifoldCF code necessary in order to use the API. I also have the lapi.jar in my build path, so I believe the necessary configurations to use the API are in place. I would greatly appreciate it if I can get some ideas on how to build the connector through the API. Example code would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Pranesh
