Service to provide document locking. If a document is locked, other users cannot change its content, until it is unlocked.
Check out locks the item and creates a working copy that can be edited. The locked item can be viewed by others, but not changed. When the item is checked in, the working copy replaces the original item and removes the lock.
The following CheckOutCheckInService methods are provided:
- Check out a node
- Check in a node
- Check if a node is a working copy
- Check if a node is locked (checked out)
- Cancel a check out for a given working copy
- Get a working copy
- Get the original checked out node
CheckOutCheckInService checkOutCheckInService = serviceRegistry.getCheckOutCheckInService(); NodeRef checkedOutCopy = checkOutCheckInService.checkout(nodeRef);