alf_session: Get connection session to Alfresco content repository
In rwetherall/alfr: Connectivity to 'Alfresco' Content Management Repositories

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Validates authentication details with Alfresco content repository, returning ticket, server details and endpoints if successful.

1	alf_session(server, username, password)

`server`	Alfresco server URL
`username`	user name
`password`	password

Connection session to Alfresco repository

# try to establish a connection to the alfresco content repository
my_session <-
  tryCatch(
    alf_session("http://localhost:8080", "admin", "admin"),
    error = function(e) NULL)

if (!is.null(my_session)) {

  # output session information
  print(paste("Session: [ticket = ", my_session$ticket,
                      ", server = ", my_session$server, "]", sep=""))

  # verify that the session is valid
  if (alf_session.is_valid(my_session)) print("Session verified as valid.")

  # invalidate the session so that it can no longer be used
  alf_session.invalidate(my_session)
}