CmisPlugin Development

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Active Items

Id	Summary	Priority	Current State	Creation Date	Last Edit
Item10270	initial checkin of a CMIS plugin	Enhancement	New	19 Jan 2011 - 11:24	19 Jan 2011 - 11:24

Discussion

This project aims at adding CMIS support to Foswiki. This will allow to interact with Enterprise Content Management systems like Alfresco, Documentum and Sharepoint in a standardised way. At first, this extension will only add read access to display and download data from a CMIS repository. In a second step CmisPlugin will add services for SolrPlugin to crawl CMIS repositories adding content to the Solr search index. For now I do not plan to implement a Foswiki::Store based on CMIS or add CMIS services for Foswiki. However, it might make sense to upload documents attached to a topic directly to the DMS behind instead of adding it to Foswiki's native store.

• Phase 1: implement WebService::Cmis
• Phase 2: leverage CMIS to wiki application land by implementing a %CMIS macro
• Phase 3: implement a CMIS connector for SolrPlugin for full and incremental indexing
• Phase 4: allow to upload documents from Foswiki to the CMIS container

Current Status

• a perl library WebService::Cmis has been implemented and tested against Alfresco: available at https://github.com/MichaelDaum/cmis-perl
• the unit test of WebService::Cmis are written using Foswiki's test suite, so this is not CPAN-compatible unfortunately; still this work should be hosted at CPAN.
• while the test suite also covers other DMSes like Nuxeo, etc, tests for these still fail in some parts due to differences of the server's implementation of the cmis specs
• a %CMIS macro for Foswiki has been implemented to leverage WebService::Cmis to wiki applications
• a basic browse and search interface to Alfresco has been implementet using the %CMIS interface; this needs serious improvements before calling it a done job.

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Discussion

Very interesting. Do you have some ideas for what kind of wiki-apps you'd build with %CMIS?

-- PaulHarvey - 09 Jun 2011

The most basic application is to render various aspects of documents in the DMS, like its download link, the edit link, display renditions, type icons, thumbnails, access to the content streamed by the DMS, etc. either based on a specific document id or dynamically by listing all documents of a specific folder or matching a search query. That's what %CMIS is used for most of the time. So you don't have to use the DMS' own webserver to structure and organize content but can make use of the flexibility of Foswiki as a knowledge management frontend.

Also: there's some UI required: "insert link to CMIS document", "open webfolder of this topic"...

-- MichaelDaum - 09 Jun 2011

Created a github repo for the pure perl bindings

-- MichaelDaum - 16 Mar 2012