WebPublisher Apply Presentation from the command line

Ever thought it would be useful to be able to utilise the WebPublisher Apply Presentation functionality from the command line but didn’t want to have a whole application server install to make it work? Perhaps you need to put together installation scripts or an automated testing environment. Here is the ‘under-the-covers’ method that is behind the Apply Presentation logic in WebPublisher.

Much of the back-end logic that is exposed by the WebPublisher front end goes through a java server method called wcm_utils. Suppose you have:

a docbase DB1
install owner of dmadmin
xsl template with object id 090ff0ff80003852
xml object to be transformed 090ff0ff8000f921

then you need to call the wcm_utils method with the following arguments:

-docbase_name DB1 -user dmadmin -action 12
    -object_id 090ff0ff80003852 -object_ids 090ff0ff8000f921

for example in IAPI this would be:

apply,c,NULL,DO_METHOD,METHOD,S,wcm_utils,
     ARGS,S,-docbase_name DB1 -user dmadmin -action 12
     -object_id 090ff0ff80003852 -object_ids 090ff0ff8000f921

You can also use this interface to transform more than 1 xml object, just separate the -object_ids parameter with colons:

apply,c,NULL,DO_METHOD,METHOD,S,wcm_utils,
     ARGS,S,-docbase_name DB1 -user dmadmin -action 12
     -object_id 090ff0ff80003852 -object_ids
    090ff0ff8000f921:090ff0ff8000f922:090ff0ff8000f924

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This is great Robin; if only I could figure a way of updating the id’s automatically / programmatically for when content is updated life would be a bit more complete

Comment by Phillip Price — February 3, 2009 #

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Phil, not sure what you mean. Reading your comment literally isn’t that what WebPublisher does for you. I’ve probably misunderstood, but I’m a literal kind of fella.

Great website by the way
Robin

Comment by Robin East — February 3, 2009 #

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Oops – sorry I’m not sure why I wrote that! I meant to say if only I could figure out a way of scheduling that – but piping in an up to date list of xsl ids and their children id’s from dm_relation I could make a mini Create_Dynamic_Content. Or multiples so one type of xsl gets updated hourly; another daily etc. Thanks for the comments about my site; it’s built with WordPress not Web Publisher although sometime I wish it was; and other times I wish the work one was with WordPress hehe!

Comment by Phillip Price — February 17, 2009 #

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