to fetch internal filepath

Question

Hi All, 
 I have a requirement to read the internal filepath (path of file present inside folder of Appian) in plugin. Iam trying to import my application zip file and have extracted for a purpose. I would like to access those xml files present in Appian folder. Could some one help on this. 
 
 Thanks in advance

gianninol · Accepted Answer

Hello, 
 Something like the following should help. Given an Appian document ID, it will return the filepath. I am not sure if there is a way to retrieve the .zip files that have been imported as patches to the Appian environment, but this method will allow you to access Appian documents if you know their IDs. 
 import com.appiancorp.suiteapi.content.ContentConstants; 
import com.appiancorp.suiteapi.content.ContentService; 

public class AppianDocumentUtil { 
 private ContentService contentService; 
 
 //The Smart Service / Function class creating an instance of this class should receive a ContentService object in its constructor 
 public AppianDocumentUtil(ContentService cs) { 
 contentService = cs; 
 } 
 
 //Replace with specific Exception handling
 public String getFilepathToCurrentVersionOfDocument(Long document) throws Exception { 
 Long currentVersionId = contentService.getVersionId(document, ContentConstants.VERSION_CURRENT); 
 return contentService.getInternalFilename(currentVersionId); 
 } 
}

Eliot Gerson · Answer

That is an unusual requirement. Can you elaborate on your use case? 
 
It's also worth noting that plugins that attempt to modify the filesystem may not always be permitted for use in Appian Cloud (depending on what it is that they are trying to do, and how they are trying to do it).