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Containers

A container is a folder or space in a site. There are API calls for getting a list of top-level containers in a site, and for getting a container by its containerId.

To see documentation for methods on this entity, and to try them out on our online REST API explorer, go to https://api-explorer.alfresco.com/api-explorer/#/sites. If you have the REST API explorer running locally, then go to http://localhost:8080/api-explorer#/sites.

Container object

Property Type JSON Type Description
folderId string string The container's descriptive name.
id id string The container identifier. An opaque string which uniquely identifies this container.

Example of a container object

{
     "folderId":"documentLibrary",
     "id":"7fb6c69b-f462-429a-a168-87762f660c65"
}

List order

Lists of these entities are returned ordered by ascending folderId.