How to count WCM items and versions using the WCM API sample code

Applies to

HCL Digital Experience 8.5 and higher

Introduction

This article shows the WCM API sample code to count WCM items and versions in HCL Digital Experience (DX).

Instructions

Important

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   DocumentIdIterator docIt;
   int total = 0;
   int k;

   out.println("</BR>");
   DocumentType[] types1 = {DocumentTypes.Content};
   k=0;
   for(int i=0; i < types1.length; i++) {
      docIt = myworkspace.findByType(types1[i]);
      while (docIt.hasNext()) {
        k++;
        DocumentId docId = docIt.nextId();
        out.println("Content item  = " + docId.getName());
        //Count versions
        document = myworkspace.getById(docId);
        versionCatalog = document.getVersionCatalog();
        if(versionCatalog.hasVersions()) {
          versionCounter = 0;
          versionIt = versionCatalog.all();
          while (versionIt.hasNext() && (versionCounter<1000) ) {
          versionIt.next();
          versionCounter++;
          }
          versionTotal+=versionCounter;
          out.println(" --This item has " + versionCounter + " versions" + "</BR>");
        }
        else {
         out.println("</BR>");
        }
      }
      out.println("</BR>" + "Total Content Items  = " + k + "</BR>");
      total+=k;
   }

For more information, refer to the Javadoc for Interface DocumentType<T extends WCMApiObject> to see a list of all available DocumentTypes that could be counted in this manner.