Javascript Console Admin Console component for Alfresco 4.x-5.1

Author: Florian Maul (fme AG)
            Jens Goldhammer (fme AG)

This project contains a Javascript Console component for the Alfresco Share’s Administration Console, that enables the execution of arbitrary javascript code in the repository.

Usage

Add the dependencies to the Alfresco repository and share POM files of your WAR projects.

For the Repository

<dependencies>
  ...
  <dependency>
    <groupId>de.fmaul</groupId>
    <artifactId>javascript-console-repo</artifactId>
    <version>0.6</version>
    <type>amp</type>
  </dependency>
  ...
</dependencies>

<overlays>
  ...
  <overlay>
    <groupId>de.fmaul</groupId>
    <artifactId>javascript-console-repo</artifactId>
    <type>amp</type>
  </overlay>
  ...
</overlays>

For Share

<dependencies>
  ...
  <dependency>
    <groupId>de.fmaul</groupId>
    <artifactId>javascript-console-share</artifactId>
    <version>0.6</version>
    <type>amp</type>
  </dependency>
  ...
</dependencies>

<overlays>
  ...
  <overlay>
    <groupId>de.fmaul</groupId>
    <artifactId>javascript-console-share</artifactId>
    <type>amp</type>
  </overlay>
  ...
</overlays>

Watch the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3JIeVY8Nnk

New Features

• autocomplete with tern.js

• new json output view for validation and formatting json from the freemarker template processing

• JSHint integration in javascript editor- it validates input on the fly and integrates the alfresco root objects like search, node…

• performance statistics - displays overall time, time for javascript and freemarker processing, time for network and time for rest of the server side processing

• Editor Theming - allows you to theme the javascript and freemarker codemirror editor

• better error marking of server runtime errors in the editors

• update codemirror to version 3 and enabling many codemirror addons(activeline, hightlight selection, new autocomplete module)

Installation

The component has been developed to install on top of an existing Alfresco 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 or 5.0 installation. The javascript-console-repo-<version>.amp or javascript-console-share-<version>.amp needs to be installed into the Alfresco Repository / Share webapp using the Alfresco Module Management Tool:

java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar install javascript-console-repo-<version>.amp /path/to/alfresco.war
java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar install javascript-console-share-<version>.amp /path/to/share.war

You can also use the Alfresco Maven SDK to install or overlay the AMP during the build of a Repository / Share WAR project. See https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/repositories/alfresco-docs/alfresco-lifecycle-aggregator/latest/plugins/alfresco-maven-plugin/advanced-usage.html for details.

Building

To build the module and its AMP / JAR files, run the following command from the base project directory:

mvn install

The command builds two JAR files named javascript-console-repo-<version>.jar / javascript-console-share-<version>.jar and javascript-console-repo-<version>-sources.jar / javascript-console-share-<version>-sources.jar as well as javascript-console-repo-<version>.amp / javascript-console-share-<version>.amp in the target directory within your project.

If you want to build the module so it can be installed and run in an Alfresco 4.0 / 4.1 server running on Java 6 you need to have a Java 6 JDK available. Either make sure that your JDK 6 is set as the default Java environment (PATH / JAVA_HOME environment variable) or run the build with the following command from the base project directory:

mvn install -P Java6-crossCompile -Djdk6.executable=/path/to/javac

Using the component

• Log in to Alfresco Share and navigate to an Administration page such as Users or Groups
• In the left-hand-side navigation, click Javascript Console
• Enter Alfresco repository javascript code in the textarea at the top. Press the execute button to run the script.
• You can use the special print(..) javascript command to output messages to the output window.
• use Ctrl+Space for code completion. Note that only global objects and specific variables (document, space, variables ending in …node) are completed.

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