GetContextURL returns null using the default ECM repository

Question

Hello experts,
This is the scenario.
We are using the SAP ECM repositoy for document storage in our BPM proyect. In this case we are using the default configuration and repository location  (ecm/default  and DefaultUser), but after the upload, when i try to get the document URL with the method getContentURL(), returns null.
The ECM documentarion saids than this condition is expected when using a third party repostiory, but this is not the case.
I appreciate a lot your advices and recomendations,
Best regards!
Julio C. Leyva

Answer 1

Hi Vasil,
We didn't resolve this issue by this method, because we are using the default ECM repository witch doesn't support the operation getContextURL() and gets the "null" result. If you are using a different repository maybe works.
Re-checking the API specification, saids:
getContentURL
java.lang.String getContentURL() throws InvalidStateException, RepositoryException  Returns a URL that can be used to retrieve the content directly from the respective backend, thus bypassing ECM. Note that this URL might have several restrictions which depend on the connector's backend store, such as a limited lifetime or requiring a user to authenticate with different credentials than the ones used to connect to ECM. Other stores might provide no content URL at all, in which case this method returns null. Applications might want to consider utilizing the ECM WebDAV server to present their users a URL that is located on the same system as ECM.  
Finally, you would consider to expose a webservice (EJB Session Bean) witch encapsulates the ECMI implementation and extract your file content as a binary array (encode/decode), sending as the input your path/fileName for lookup in the ECM repository.
Regards!