Alfresco is a collection of information management software products for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems developed using Java technology. Their primary software offering, branded as a Digital Business Platform[3] is proprietary & a commercially licensed open source platform, supports open standards, and provides enterprise scale

Media Files Configurations

Add the following to proj/proj/settings.py . See more in Managing files

# Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files.
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')

#URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files.
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

Settings Alfresco Connection parameters

Add the following to proj/proj/local_settings.py

# Alfresco Connection Parameters
ALFRESCO_BASE_URL = 'http://your_alfreco_host/alfresco/service/api/upload'
ALFRESCO_AUTH_USERNAME = 'your_alf_username'
ALFRESCO_AUTH_PASSWORD = 'your_alf_password'
ALFRESCO_SITE_ID = 'your_alf_site_id'

Example Uploading Module

• Create a new alfresco_files_upload.py in proj/app/views/

  $ touch proj/app/views/alfresco_files_upload.py
  $ tree proj/app/views/ -L 1
  proj/app/views/
  ├── alfresco_files_upload.py
  ├── __init__.py
  

• Add the following lines to proj/app/views/__init__.py

  from .alfresco_files_upload import *
  

• file: alfresco_files_upload.py

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage

import json
import requests
import os

def alfresco_set_conn_param():
    auth_username = settings.ALFRESCO_AUTH_USERNAME
    auth_password = settings.ALFRESCO_AUTH_PASSWORD
    url = settings.ALFRESCO_BASE_URL
    siteid = settings.ALFRESCO_SITE_ID

    auth = (auth_username, auth_password)
    data = {"siteid": siteid, "containerid": "documentLibrary"}
    return url, auth, data

def alfresco_upload_a_file(file_system, file_name):
    # set the alfresco connection param
    url, auth, data = alfresco_set_conn_param()

    files = {"filedata": file_system.open(file_name, mode='r')}

    r = requests.post(url, auth=auth, data=data, files=files)
    return r

def alfresco_upload_dir(directory='upload_to_alf/', json_result = ''):
    path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, directory)
    file_system = FileSystemStorage(location=path)

    for f in file_system.listdir(path)[1]:
        r = alfresco_upload_a_file(file_system, f)
        data_ = r.json()
        json_result += json.dumps(data_)
    return json_result        

Define Task

Suppose the uploading files are in proj/media/upload_to_alf/ directory

file: proj/app/tasks.py

from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
from proj.celery import app
from . import views

@app.task
def alfresco_upload_dir(directory='upload_to_alf/'):
    return views.alfresco_upload_dir(directory=directory)

Testing on Periodic Tasks Administration

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