User Guide

Web service methods 23

• clientID is the same as the username.

Location

The

Location object describes where the file or directory can be found. It has the following

elements:

• siteURI is the URL of the website where the file resides. An example of a siteURI value is

"http://www.myserver.com/mysite".

• itemURI is the URL of the specific file. An example of an itemURI value is "http://

www.myserver.com/mysite/page1/moviestars.htm"

• itemPath is the file system path to the file. An example of an itemPath value is "file://c:/

webroot/mysite/page/moviestars.htm"

The

itemURI and itemPath elements can be empty if the object simply refers to a website.

Web service methods

The following methods are web service procedures that the Contribute client call when certain

events occur:

All these methods must be implemented in the web service. If certain events have no interest to

the client, they still must be present as empty stubs that do nothing, as shown in the following

example:

Publish(mainURI, username, useremail, files, otherURI) { }

None of the CPS methods have return values.