Searching by Content Type and Controlling Paging and Sorting - Alfresco Content Services - 23.4 - 23.4 - Ready - Alfresco - external

As with all the v1 ReST APIs paging can also be controlled, it’s just done via the body rather than a query parameter. The results can also be sorted. The example body below shows how to execute a search to find all files ordered by the cm:name property, only show 25 results rather than the default of 100 and skip the first 10 results:

{
  "query": {
    "query": "+TYPE:\"cm:content\"",
    "language": "afts"
  },
  "paging": {
    "maxItems": "25",
    "skipCount": "10"
  },
  "sort": [{"type":"FIELD", "field":"cm:name", "ascending":"false"}]
}

This also shows how you can search for a specific content type with the TYPE keyword.

Here is how the call looks like, assuming that we have stored the query JSON data in a file called paging-sort-query.json:

$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' --header 'Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzIxYzAzOWMxNjFjYzljMDNmNmNlMzAwYzAyMDY5YTQ2OTQwZmYzZmM=' --data-binary '@paging-sort-query.json' 'http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/search/versions/1/search' | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 13836    0 13622  100   214  31387    493 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 31880
{
  "list": {
    "pagination": {
      "count": 25,
      "hasMoreItems": true,
      "skipCount": 10,
      "maxItems": 25
    },
    "entries": [
      {
        "entry": {
           "name": "WebSiteReview.mp4",
...        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
           "name": "turbine.JPG",
...        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
           "name": "translatable.ftl",
...        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "name": "text-file.txt",
...        }
      },
      {
          "name": "test return value.js.sample",
...        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "name": "test-file.txt",
...        }
      },
      {
          "name": "system-overview.html",
...        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "name": "start-pooled-review-workflow.js",
...        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "name": "some-stuff.txt",
...        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "name": "somefile.txt",
...        }
      },
 ...
    ]
  }
}

The result have been truncated a bit here for clarity.