[CONNECTORS-1324] Not all SharePoint Metadata Fields are returned - 2

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: ManifoldCF 2.4
• Fix Version/s: ManifoldCF 2.5
• Component/s: SharePoint connector

Environment

Java 1.8, Windows x64, Sharepoint 2013

• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Karl Wright
• Reporter: Konstantin Avdeev
• Created: 21/Jun/16 13:32
• Updated: 21/Jun/16 15:25
• Resolved: 21/Jun/16 14:18

Description

Hello Karl,

This is a follow up ticket for 1284.
There is still a problem with getting meta-data from sharepoint lists.

E.g. I'm missing the "title" and "description" fields in the result documents.

Let's take the "title" field from a list document:

DEBUG: SharePoint: getFieldList xml response:

...
    <ns1:Field ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}" Type="Text" Name="Title"
    DisplayName="Task Name" Required="TRUE" SourceID="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3"
    StaticName="Title" FromBaseType="TRUE" Sealed="TRUE" ColName="nvarchar1" />
...

The field Name is the internal (technical) field name, and DisplayName is the frontend (user-friendly) name.
The connector maps Name to DisplayName when it is preparing the request:

SharePointRepository.java

            for (String field : fieldNames.keySet())
            {
              String value = fieldNames.get(field);
              fields[j++] = (value==null)?field:value;

Changing the last two lines to:

              fields[j++] = field;

solves the problem.
I doubt, the DisplayName should be used at all, as it can contain non-ascii chars, e.g.:

...
<ns1:Field ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}" Type="Text" Name="Title" DisplayName="&#xDC;berschrift" ...

Currently, only fields with the same Name/DisplayName values can be indexed.
Could you please look into this?
Thank you!