Listing Folders From WebFOCUS

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This section provides code examples that demonstrate how to retrieve a list of the top-level folders from WebFOCUS. A successful sign-on request is a prerequisite for running this example, including retrieving the HTTP Header cookies from its response.


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Visual Basic .NET Example
Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Dim request3 As HttpWebRequest
Dim response3 As HttpWebResponse
Dim webStream3 As Stream
Dim webResponse3 As String = ""
Dim tempfile As String
request3 = WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:8080/ibi_apps/rs/ibfs/WFC/
Repository?IBIRS_action=get")
request3.Method = "GET"
'cookies is defined as CookieContainer in the Signing-On to WebFOCUS example
request3.CookieContainer = cookies
response3 = request3.GetResponse()
webStream3 = response3.GetResponseStream()
Dim webStreamReader3 As New StreamReader(webStream3)
tempfile = "c:\temp\Folders.xml"
FileOpen(1, tempfile, OpenMode.Output)
While webStreamReader3.Peek >= 0
     webResponse3 = webStreamReader3.ReadToEnd()
     PrintLine(1, webResponse3)
End While
FileClose(1)
Dim xmlElem = XElement.Parse(webResponse3)

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Java Example
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*; 
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*;
String request3 = "http://localhost:8080/ibi_apps/rs/ibfs/WFC/Repository?IBIRS_action=get";
						
GetMethod method_getFolders = new GetMethod(request3);
// cookies is defined as Header[] in the Signing-On to WebFOCUS example			
for(int h=0; h<cookies.length; h++){
       method_getFolders.addRequestHeader(cookies[h].getName(), cookies[h].getValue());
}
// client is defined as HttpClient in the Signing-On to WebFOCUS example 			
int statusCode3 = client.executeMethod(method_getFolders);
					
InputStream rstream3 = null;
rstream3 = method_getFolders.getResponseBodyAsStream();
File tempfile = new File("c:\\temp\\Folders.xml");
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(tempfile);
PrintWriter out=new PrintWriter(fos);
BufferedReader br3 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(rstream3));
String line3;
String newOutput = null;
while ((line3 = br3.readLine()) != null) {
	newOutput = line3;
	out.println(newOutput);
	System.out.println(line3);
}
br3.close();
out.close();

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