Derek Hulley

Gets a list of all available node store references

Create a new store for the given protocol and identifier. The implementation may create the store in any number of locations, including a database or Subversion.

Delete a store and all its contents.

Gets the ID of the last transaction that caused the node to change. This includes deletions, so it is possible that the node being referenced no longer exists. If the node never existed, then null is returned.

Get the node reference for a given node DB ID

Creates a new, non-abstract, real node as a primary child of the given parent node.

Moves the primary location of the given node.

This involves changing the node's primary parent and possibly the name of the association referencing it.

If the new parent is in a different store from the original, then the entire node hierarchy is moved to the new store. Inter-store associations are not affected.

Set the ordering index of the child association. This affects the ordering of of the return values of methods that return a set of children or child associations.

Re-sets the type of the node. Can be called in order specialise a node to a sub-type. This should be used with caution since calling it changes the type of the node and thus implies a different set of aspects, properties and associations. It is the calling codes responsibility to ensure that the node is in a approriate state after changing the type.

Applies an aspect to the given node. After this method has been called, the node with have all the aspect-related properties present

Remove an aspect and all related properties from a node

Determines if a given aspect is present on a node. Aspects may only be removed if they are NOT mandatory.

Deletes the given node.

All associations (both children and regular node associations) will be deleted, and where the given node is the primary parent, the children will also be cascade deleted.

Makes a parent-child association between the given nodes. Both nodes must belong to the same store.

Associates a given child node with a given collection of parents. All nodes must belong to the same store.

Severs all parent-child relationships between two nodes.

The child node will be cascade deleted if one of the associations was the primary association, i.e. the one with which the child node was created.

Remove a specific child association.

The child node will be cascade deleted if the association was the primary association, i.e. the one with which the child node was created.

Deprecated. Use removeSecondaryChildAssociation(ChildAssociationRef)

Remove a specific secondary child association.

Replace all current properties on the node with the given properties. The properties given must still fulfill the requirements of the class and aspects relevant to the node.

NOTE: Null values are allowed.

Add all given properties to the node.

NOTE: Null values are allowed and will replace the existing value.

Sets the value of a property to be any Serializable instance.

NOTE: Null values are allowed.

Removes a property value completely.

Gets all parent associations where the pattern of the association qualified name is a match

The resultant list is ordered by (a) explicit index and (b) association creation time.

Get all child associations of the given node.

The resultant list is ordered by (a) explicit index and (b) association creation time.

Gets all child associations where the pattern of the association qualified name is a match. Using a wildcard for the type and a specific qualified name for the association is akin to using the XPath browse expression ./{url}localname in the context of the parent node.

Note that all child associations are fetched and preloading is done for all results.

Gets all child associations where the pattern of the association qualified name is an exact match.

Gets all child associations where the pattern of the association qualified names match the patterns provided.

Note that all results are retrieved but preloading is optional.

Retrieve immediate children of a given node where the child nodes are in the given inclusive list.

Retrieve the immediate children of a given node based on the value of a property of those children.

If the property to be searched is multi-valued then will match on any one values.

Please note, the following system maintained properties that cannot be used with this method.

• cm:name - use getChildByName instead
• cm:created
• cm:creator
• cm:modified
• cm:modifier
• sys:node-uuid
• sys:node-dbid
• sys:store-identifier
• sys:store-protocol

Get the node with the given name within the context of the parent node. The name is case-insensitive as Alfresco has to support case-insensitive clients as standard.

That API method getChildByName only works for associations that don't allow duplicate child names. See cm:folder and the duplicate tag. Child associations without this allow duplicate child names and therefore it is possible to have multiple children with the same name stored against the given association type.

Get the nodes with the given names within the context of the parent node.

Fetches the primary parent-child relationship.

For a root node, the parent node reference will be null.

Gets the set of child associations of a certain parent node without parent associations of a certain type to other nodes with the same parent! In effect the 'orphans' with respect to a certain association type.

Create a peer association between two nodes.

The ordering will be natural. To change association ordering, use setAssociations.

Re-assign all typed target associations for a given node.

Gets an association by ID.

Fetches all associations from the given source where the associations' qualified names match the pattern provided.

The results are ordered if a specific type of association is requested

Fetches all associations from the given source where the associations' qualified names match the pattern provided.

The results are ordered if a specific type of association is requested

Fetches all associations to the given target where the associations' qualified names match the pattern provided.

The root node has an entry in the path(s) returned. For this reason, there will always be at least one path element in the returned path(s). The first element will have a null parent reference and qname.

The root node has an entry in the path(s) returned. For this reason, there will always be at least one path element in the returned path(s). The first element will have a null parent reference and qname.

Get the node where archived items will have gone when deleted from the given store.

Restore an individual node (along with its sub-tree nodes) to the target location. The archived node must have the archived aspect set against it.

Counts the number of child associations of nodeRef.