[opencms-dev] CmsCategoryService : readCategoryResources and recursivity

[Paul-Inge Flakstad]

Hi Sandrine,

I can't give you any solution, unfortunately, but I can tell you that I've experienced the same problem.

If I remember correctly, I've approached the problem in two ways:
1: Having "parents" and "children" as separate categories (not actually parents and children)
2: Fetching resources from both parent and children categories, and then separating children from their parent manually

It seems to me that the API is still somewhat immature (it's a relatively new feature in OpenCms), especially when dealing with this parents/children scenario. What little I've worked with categories, I've had to do a lot of "manual processing".

Best regards,
Paul
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Fra: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] på vegne av Sandrine Prousteau [s.prousteau at eurelis.com]
Sendt: 29. desember 2010 11:06
Til: The OpenCms mailing list
Emne: [opencms-dev] CmsCategoryService : readCategoryResources and      recursivity

Hi

I’d like to use CmsCategoryService function readCategoryResources. I have to list in one side resources assigned only to the parent category, and in another side resources assigned to the parent category and all its children. So I used the attribute ‘recursive’, but I don’t have the behavior expected:

If a ressource is assigned to a chidren category, it appear in the list of resources assigned only to the parent category… And we cannot assigned a resource to a children category whithout assigning it to the parent category…

What is this recursive attribute for?

Must I list all resources, and then remove resources from lists of all subcategories?