Today, let’s talk

about CMIS-SQL
Eh Mister!! Before starting..
Who is CMIS ?
That’s right, let’s share
the story of CMIS
Everyone was living
in their own world…
Until the day when the
encounter became
unescapable…

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Because
each of them
wanted to
go higher
than the
others.
A few deaths later…
They realized they couldn’t
go in so many different
directions anymore
 They shared a
similar objective
Content
Interope
rability
So instead of fighting,
They gathered their
strengths…
To keep going
further on…
And to share
information!
To resume …
CMIS stands for Content
Management Interoperability
Services (CMIS).
Actually it’s a draft specification submitted by
leading ECM vendors to OASIS (the
Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards) with the aim of becoming
an ECM industry standard.
Officially…
CMIS defines a domain model and set of bindings,
such as Web Service and REST/Atom that can be used
by applications to work with one or more Content
Management repositories.
Visually, it looks like
that…
 Ok ! Could you explain
the different part of CMIS ?
Ok… Let’s try a
comparison…
Do you know how
goods travel ?
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/anniemole/313981428/

Indeed, goods enjoy great trip !

Most of them, travel by…
 Trucks…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/87913776@N00/422603859/
 Ships…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danramarch/2875308394/
 Or Trains…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfly/199823544/
 What’s the
common point ?
 CONTAINERS !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelsoncruz/431244400/
It’s standardized…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppdigital/2327889692/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marelles/852012838/

It’s interoperable…
 That’s why, it
increase exchange !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcnbits/2859509269/
And CMIS ?
 1. CMIS is THE container
for document management
 It standardizes
a unique
domain/data model
http://www.flickr.com/photos/circulating/2533948028/
2. CMIS is a means of transport

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grumbler/448401254/
 By WebServices

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_knight/356512207/
By REST/ATOM http://www.flickr.com/photos/theolaphoto/23255
 3. CMIS provides services

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ejouvenaux/2886232980/
 Document Management

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misterdna/49841409/
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjohnbeckett/514914659/

CMIS SQL search

 That’s why, CMIS
increase exchange !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcnbits/2859509269/
All right folks ? Can we go
back to CMIS-SQL ?
Ok! Let’s explain CMIS-SQL !
So what’s CMIS-SQL…
CMIS-SQL ?
• CMIS provides a type-based query service for
discovering objects that match specified criteria,
by defining a read-only projection of the CMIS data
model into a Relational View.
• Through this relational view, queries may be
performed via a simplified SQL SELECT statement.
This query language, called CMIS SQL, is based
on a subset of the SQL-92 grammar, with a few
extensions to enhance its filtering capability for
the CMIS data model, such as existential
quantification for multi-valued property, full-text
search, and folder membership. Other statements
of the SQL language are not adopted by CMIS.
• The semantics of CMIS SQL is defined by the SQL-
92 standard, plus the extensions, in conjunction
with the model mapping defined by CMIS’s
relational view

• Source: Oasis CMIS Part 1 – Domain Model v0.61c

 OK…
Demo time!
 A b it
of theo
ry
CMIS enables to query on…
CMIS enables to query on…

CMIS DOMAIN
MODEL
Syntax
Simple query

• SELECT [columns]

• FROM [Virtual Table

Names]

• WHERE [conditions]

• ORDER BY [sort
specification]
SELECT [columns]
• This clause identifies
the set of columns that
will be included in the
query results for each
row.
FROM [Virtual Table Names]
• This clause identifies
which Virtual Table(s)
the query will run
against.
WHERE [conditions]
• This clause identifies
the constraints that
rows SHALL satisfy to
be considered a result
for the query.
ORDER BY [sort specification]
• This clause identifies
the order in which the
result rows SHALL be
sorted in the result row
set.
 Predica
te
Functio
ns
CONTAINS()
• This is a predicate function
that encapsulates the full-
text search capability that
MAY be provided by a
Repository

• The predicate returns a

Boolean value.
SCORE()
• This is a predicate function
that encapsulates the full-
text search capability that
MAY be provided by a
Repository

• The SCORE() predicate

function returns a decimal
value in the interval [0,1]
IN_FOLDER()
• This is a predicate function
that tests whether or not a
candidate object is a child-
object of the folder object
identified by the given
<folder id>.

• The predicate returns a

Boolean value.
IN_TREE()
• This is a predicate function
that tests whether or not a
candidate object is a
descendant-object of the
folder object identified by
the given <folder id>.

• The predicate returns a

Boolean value.
Operat
or
Logical operators
AND
To add a criteria

OR
To add a choice between several
criterias

NOT
To exclude a criteria
Predicate
LIKE allows you to use wildcards
in a WHERE clause

IS [NOT] NULL Check if an

expression is NULL.

[NOT] IN allows you to specify

multiple values in a WHERE
clause.
Now how to make simple
queries with CMIS-SQL ?
CMIS-SQL : My Recipe
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/piston9/2497672447/

Install a content
Repository http://www.flickr.com/photos/piston9/2497672447/
Alfresco 3.x Community
(for me)

I’m always here !

Add an independent CMIS
client like Shane Johnson's
Flex/AIR CMIS Browser
Bind them…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/intherough/325334910
Then create your queries

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgw/2329607771/
And watch
results.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fozzeee/3756133976/
Let’s try some samples..
I want all informations
of all folders

SELECT * FROM FOLDER

 I just want the name
of all folders

SELECT F.Name FROM FOLDER AS F

I want all informations of
« MyFolder »

SELECT F.* FROM FOLDER AS F

WHERE F.Name='MyFolder'
I want all information of all
documents in « MyFolder »
SELECT * FROM DOCUMENT AS D
WHERE
IN_FOLDER(
'workspace://SpacesStore/b7008f8b-5352-4e9b-97e7-4374479ee984')
I want all information of folders in
« MyFolder »
SELECT * FROM FOLDER AS F
WHERE
IN_FOLDER(
'workspace://SpacesStore/b7008f8b-5352-4e9b-97e7-4374479ee984')
I want ObjectType and Name of
« MyDocument.doc »

SELECT D.ObjectTypeId, D.Name

FROM document AS D
WHERE D.Name=‘MyDocument.doc'
I want ObjectType and Name of
all document that contains the
word ‘CMIS’
SELECT D.ObjectTypeId, D.Name
FROM document AS D
WHERE CONTAINS(‘CMIS‘)
 I want the name of all document that
contains the word ‘CMIS’ and objectType
is ‘cmis_doc’
SELECT D.ObjectTypeId, D.Name
FROM document AS D
WHERE CONTAINS(‘CMIS‘)
AND D.ObjectTypeId='D/cmis_doc'
 Voilà!
Enough for today!
Now it’s your turn!
Don’t hesitate to create
or use..

CMIS Toolkits
CMIS Client
CMIS Repository
Test your combination
And make your own !
Be the first to enjoy content
interoperability!
And finally…
To discover…
To go further on…
And to reach our
goals…
Choose ECM
Open Source
CMIS-SQL

By JM.PASCAL

www.opensourceecm.fr
&
www.open-source-ecm.com