CmisPlugin

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.

See the CmisPlugin development page for more information.