Get the latest approved version of a content management resource

Question

Hi I am using EP 6 with Content management.
I my application I need to get resources form content management, approval process is enabled for the content items.
I use this code
RID rid = RID.getRID(path);
          if (rid != null) {
               try {
                    resource = rf.getResource(rid, context);
} catch (ResourceException e1) {
     //errorhandling
where rf is a com.sapportals.wcm.repository.IResourceFactory
created from a service user and a service context
which work fine, When the resource has been approved.
however if I change the specified content Item and do not approve it, the above code returns null as resource.
I would expect the api to return the latest approved version of the resource.
Have I misunderstood soemthing here or should I use another API?

Answer 1

I solved my problem...
first of all.
Versioning was enabled for the folder but apparently it didnt work so i disabled it and enabled it again. Then I got the correct reource instead of null.
second thing
later in mycode I used this to get the path of the resource
resource.getRID().getPath();
but this gives the path to where the version of the document can be found... something like /documents/~System/xx/xxxxx/xxxx
where x is numbers
after doing a little debugging I found out that
resource.getAccessRID().getPath()
returns the path to where in CM the resource is stored.
I hope My experience here can help others.
I am glad that I solved my problem, but I find it extremely worrying that some settings in CM apparently stops working without any apparent reason.
We have experienced this with other properties like Manual Ordering, Approval process, have any one else had these problems and found the cause then I would like to hear about it