A favorite describes a entity that a person has marked as a
favorite. There are API calls for getting a list of a user's favorites, for getting
a specific favorite, for adding a favorite, and for deleting a favorite.
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/#/favorites. If you have the REST API explorer running locally, then go to http://localhost:8080/api-explorer#/favorites.
Favorite object
| Property | Type | JSON Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| targetGuid | id | string | The guid of the object that is a favorite. |
| createdAt | date time | string | The time the object was made a favorite. |
| target | object | object | The object that is a favorite. This can be a site, a folder, or a file. |
Example of a favorite object
{
"targetGuid" : "54a924c0-d437-4482-8cbc-78c2995c83ae",
"createdAt" : "2012-07-20T21:46:09.659+0000",
"target": {
"file" : {
"id" : "54a924c0-d437-4482-8cbc-78c2995c83ae",
"guid" : "54a924c0-d437-4482-8cbc-78c2995c83ae",
"name" : "fred.txt",
"title" : "Fred Bloggs's Document",
"description" : "This is Fred’s resume",
"createdAt" : "2013-01-09T13:23:07.894-05:00",
"modifiedAt" : "2013-01-16T15:41:35.265-05:00",
"createdBy" : "fred.bloggs@yourcompany.com",
"modifiedBy" : "wilma.bloggs@yourcompany.com",
"mimeType" : "text/plain",
"sizeInBytes" : "1024",
"versionLabel" : "1.0"
}
}
List order
Lists of these entities are returned ordered by ascending target/type, and then by descending createdAt date.