Hi Guy, If you would be willing to create ManifoldCF tickets, and include patches or code snippets, I can add the functionality into the source tree.
Thanks, Karl On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Guy Sperry <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to draw your attention to a bug in the FileNet connector. The > URL (Id) that is created for each document includes the document class as > the object type. This is not the correct usage of that parameter. The > object type is actually a reference to the parent class of a particular > object; document, custom object, or folder. The current method technically > works for any documents in the Document class, but any that are configured > to come from sub-classes will generate an error when trying to follow the > URL to FileNet to retrieve the document. > > It is pretty easy to programmatically get the parent class of a document > class. However, the primary use of MCF is to crawl documents and only > document classes are available in the class list. Therefore, it seems to me > to be just as reasonable to hard-code "Document" into the objectType URL > parameter in the convertToURI function. If this is reasonable to you, I > have included the function below. I have just started using it and it works > for me. > > Additionally, I would like to point out that FileNet Workplace has been > deprecated and will soon be sunset. I think it would be nice to be able to > select a URL (Id) builder in the job configuration. This could allow users > to select whether they will be serving up documents from Workplace, > WorkplaceXT (soon to be sunset as well) or Content Navigator (IBMs newest > front-end to Content Engine). > > I would be happy to write these, provide information, or help in testing. > > > > protected static String convertToURI(String urlBase, String > documentIdentifier, int elementNumber, String documentClass) > { > // Will this work for sub-types of documents too? ask - MHL > return urlBase + "&id=" + documentIdentifier + > "&element="+Integer.toString(elementNumber)+"&objectType=Document"; > } > >
