Jörn Franke created CONNECTORS-1630:
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Summary: Livelink/Opentext connector support REST API
Key: CONNECTORS-1630
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-1630
Project: ManifoldCF
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: LiveLink connector
Reporter: Jörn Franke
Currently, the Livelink connector is based on the Opentext proprietary APIs
lapi.jar/lssl.jar
It seems that Opentext/Livelink focuses most of their efforts on the public
REST API and lapi.jar becomes deprecated. Hence, a new connector shoule be
developed to leverage the REST API.
This task needs to investigate the minimum REST API version needed to provide
the Manifold functionality (Repository/Authority connection) similar to the
proprietary APIs.
One needs then also to identify the configuration options in the UI, such as
authority connection
* API base Url
* username/password auth (it is not basic auth), NTLM, Kerberos
*
repository:
* API base url
* API version to use (currently v1 or v2, just in case both version would
provide the needed functionality)
* username/password auth (it is not basic auth), NTLM, Kerberos
* path to fetch (e.g. by object id of the folder)
* recursive fetch (yes/no)
* regex pattern for specific filenames
* regex pattern for specific (sub-)folders in case of recursive fetch
* mapping of username to Livelink username
* number of threads for API calls
Then a plan needs to be developed on how to design the functionality.
Multi-threading should be used as much as possible, but should be limited to a
certain number of threads, e.g. by using a Execution Service, in the UI as the
REST API requires many calls to get all information (e.g. to get document
categories one needs to "work recursively its way up").
References:
* OpenText REST APIs Content server:
[https://developer.opentext.com/webaccess/#url=%2Fawd%2Fresources%2Fapis%2Fcs-rest-api-for-cs-16-s&tab=501]
* OpenText REST API Directory services (this MIGHT be needed for the Authority
plugin, but it MAY also be fine just with the content server APIs):
https://developer.opentext.com/webaccess/#url=%2Fawd%2Fresources%2Fapis%2Fotds-16&tab=501
* Executor service fixed thread pool:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Executors.html#newFixedThreadPool(int)
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