Get Folder Items

{ getFolderItems }

Gets a list of content items in a given folder.

Method

/API2/content/getFolderItems

  • API Section: /API2/content
  • API Version: 2.0
  • From Release: 2018.5
  • Can be used by Non-admin accounts
  • Method operates via POST actions only.
  • Input Parameters

    Name

    folderId

    Type

    string

    Description

    The system folder ID

    Output Response

    Successful Result Code

    200

    Response List Type

    Description of Response Type

    Pyramid Content item object. Note that the response is returned as a list of items of this object type.

    Notes

    Use the function recursively to extract the full content tree

    Examples
    User Client Authentication (Java):

    This example demonstrates how to authenticate users for the main application.

    import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpExchange;
    import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpHandler;
    import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer;
    import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
    import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
    import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
    import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicResponseHandler;
    import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
    import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
    import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
    
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
    
    public class Main {
    	private static final String pyramidPath = "http://mySite.com/API2/";
    
    	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    		HttpServer server = HttpServer.create(new InetSocketAddress(8000), 0);
    		server.createContext("/login", new LoginHandler());
    
    
    		server.setExecutor(null); // creates a default executor
    		server.start();
    
    	}
    
    	private static class LoginHandler implements HttpHandler {
    		@Override
    		public void handle(HttpExchange httpExchange) throws IOException {
    			//logging the user
    			JSONObject adminCredentials = new JSONObject();
    			adminCredentials.put("userName", "testUser1");
    			adminCredentials.put("password", "abc456!");
    			String adminToken = getToken("authenticateUser", adminCredentials);
    
    			//logging the user in using the admin's token
    			JSONObject userCredentials = new JSONObject();
    			userCredentials.put("userIdentity", "test.user1@mySite.com");
    			userCredentials.put("token", adminToken);
    
    			String userToken = getToken("authenticateUserByToken", userCredentials);
    
    			//searching the user by name 
    			JSONObject getUsersByName = new JSONObject();
    			getUsersByName.put("userName", "testUser1");
    			getUsersByName.put("auth", adminToken);
    			JSONObject results = callApi("access/getUsersByName", getUsersByName);
    			String userId = ((JSONObject) ((JSONArray) results.get("data")).get(0)).get("id").toString();
    
    			//reading the user's private folder
    			JSONObject getFolderItems = new JSONObject();
    			getFolderItems.put("folderId", userId);//the user private folder id is the same as the user id
    			getFolderItems.put("auth", adminToken);
    			JSONObject privateFolder = callApi("content/getFolderItems", getFolderItems);
    			String messageStr = "private folder id is " + userId + " and it contains ";
    			JSONArray folderContent = ((JSONArray) privateFolder.get("data"));
    			for (int i = 0; i < folderContent.size(); ++i) {
    				messageStr += ((JSONObject) folderContent.get(i)).get("caption") + ",";
    			}
    
    			byte[] message = messageStr.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    			httpExchange.getResponseHeaders().add("Set-Cookie", "PyramidAuth=" + userToken);
    			httpExchange.sendResponseHeaders(200, message.length);
    			httpExchange.getResponseBody().write(message);
    		}
    	}
    
    
    	protected static String getToken(String service, JSONObject data) throws IOException {
    		JSONObject dataHolder = new JSONObject();
    		dataHolder.put("data", data);
    		return sendPost("auth/" + service, dataHolder.toJSONString());
    	}
    
    
    	protected static String sendPost(String path, String data) throws IOException {
    		try (CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build()) {
    
    			String address = pyramidPath + path;
    			HttpPost request = new HttpPost(address);
    			StringEntity params = new StringEntity(data);
    			request.addHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    			request.setEntity(params);
    			CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
    			return new BasicResponseHandler().handleResponse(response);
    		}
    	}
    }