Integrating Oracle UCM 11g RIDC with WebCenter/ADF 11g

I've seen some blog posts about using the Content Server's RIDC API in ADF, but none cover all aspects of using the full power of this API to work with UCM in a programmatic environment.

In order to get things started you need to install the WebCenter extensions for JDeveloper, create a WebCenter Portal project and configure a Content Server connection to point to a running instance of UCM 11g. More details on how to do this are given by Andrejus Baranovskis on his blog here.

Once you have these in place, you can start programming RIDC. I will describe below the most useful operations that can be performed using the API.

Create a RIDC session
String connectionName = DocLibADFConfigUtils.getPrimaryConnectionName();
Repository repository = ADFConnectionsManager.lookupRepository(connectionName);
Credentials creds = new SimpleCredentials("sysadmin", "".toCharArray());
SessionPool sessionPool = new SessionPool(repository, creds);
Session session = sessionPool.getSession();
IdcClient idcClient = (IdcClient) session.getAttribute(oracle.stellent.ridc.IdcClient.class.getName());
IdcContext idcCtx = (IdcContext) session.getAttribute(oracle.stellent.ridc.IdcContext.class.getName());

The IdcClient and IdcContext classes are the base classes for the RIDC API. All further operations will be performed using these two classes.


Retrieve a folder
You can properly retrieve a DataBinder object for a folder using the RIDC API, as shown below.
The input variable folderPath must contain the full path to the folder.
DataBinder binder = idcClient.createBinder();
binder.putLocal("IdcService", "COLLECTION_INFO");
binder.putLocal("hasCollectionPath", "true");
binder.putLocal("dCollectionPath", folderPath);
DataBinder folder = idcClient.sendRequest(adminUserCtx, binder).getResponseAsBinder();
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