proposed solution for creating electronic records with setting properties inside the FilePlanComponentProperties object using multipart upload

rm-automation/rm-automation-community-rest-api/src/main/java/org/alfresco/rest/rm/community/requests/igCoreAPI/FilePlanComponentAPI.java

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import static org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.model.fileplancomponents.FilePlanCo
 import static org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.util.ParameterCheck.mandatoryObject;
 import static org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.util.ParameterCheck.mandatoryString;
 import static org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.util.PojoUtility.toJson;
+import static org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.util.PojoUtility.toJsonElectronicRecord;
 import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.EMPTY;
 import static org.springframework.http.HttpMethod.DELETE;
 import static org.springframework.http.HttpMethod.GET;
@@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ public class FilePlanComponentAPI extends RMModelRequest
 
     /**
      * Create electronic record from file resource
-     * 
+     *
      * @param electronicRecordModel {@link FilePlanComponent} for electronic record to be created
      * @param recordContent {@link File} pointing to the content of the electronic record to be created
      * @param parentId parent container id
@@ -253,8 +254,7 @@ public class FilePlanComponentAPI extends RMModelRequest
          * to the request.
          */
         RequestSpecBuilder builder = getRMRestWrapper().configureRequestSpec();
-        JsonNode root = new ObjectMapper().readTree(toJson(electronicRecordModel));
-
+        JsonNode root = new ObjectMapper().readTree(toJsonElectronicRecord(electronicRecordModel));
         // add request fields
         Iterator<String> fieldNames = root.fieldNames();
         while (fieldNames.hasNext())

rm-automation/rm-automation-community-rest-api/src/main/java/org/alfresco/rest/rm/community/util/FilePlanComponentMix.java

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * #%L
+ * Alfresco Records Management Module
+ * %%
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 - 2017 Alfresco Software Limited
+ * %%
+ * This file is part of the Alfresco software.
+ * -
+ * If the software was purchased under a paid Alfresco license, the terms of
+ * the paid license agreement will prevail.  Otherwise, the software is
+ * provided under the following open source license terms:
+ * -
+ * Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * -
+ * Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ * -
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * along with Alfresco. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ * #L%
+ */
+package org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.util;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonUnwrapped;
+
+import org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.model.fileplancomponents.FilePlanComponentProperties;
+
+/**
+ * Mix class for FilePlanComponent POJO class
+ * Mix-in annotations are: a way to associate annotations with classes
+ * without modifying (target) classes themselves.
+ *
+ * @author Rodica Sutu
+ * @since 2.6
+ */
+public abstract class FilePlanComponentMix
+{
+    /**
+     * Annotation used to indicate that a property should be serialized "unwrapped"
+     * Its properties are instead included as properties of its containing Object
+     */
+    @JsonUnwrapped
+    abstract FilePlanComponentProperties getProperties();
+
+}

rm-automation/rm-automation-community-rest-api/src/main/java/org/alfresco/rest/rm/community/util/PojoUtility.java

@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 
+import org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.model.fileplancomponents.FilePlanComponent;
+
 /**
  * Utility class for creating the json object
  *
@@ -71,4 +73,37 @@ public class PojoUtility
             return e.toString();
         }
     }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Converting object to JSON string for electronic records
+     *
+     * @param model The java object model to convert
+     * @throws JsonProcessingException Throws exceptions if the given object doesn't match to the POJO class model
+     */
+    public static String toJsonElectronicRecord(Object model) throws JsonProcessingException
+    {
+        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+        //inject the "mix-in" annotations  from FilePlanComponentMix to
+        // FilePlanComponent POJO class when converting to json
+        mapper.addMixIn(FilePlanComponent.class, FilePlanComponentMix.class);
+        //include only values that differ from default settings to be included
+        mapper.setSerializationInclusion(Include.NON_DEFAULT);
+        try
+        {
+
+            //return the json object
+            return mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(model);
+
+        } catch (JsonGenerationException e)
+        {
+            return e.toString();
+        } catch (JsonMappingException e)
+        {
+            return e.toString();
+        } catch (IOException e)
+        {
+            return e.toString();
+        }
+    }
 }

rm-automation/rm-automation-community-rest-api/src/test/java/org/alfresco/rest/rm/community/fileplancomponents/ElectronicRecordTests.java

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.base.BaseRMRestTest;
 import org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.model.fileplancomponents.FilePlanComponent;
 import org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.model.fileplancomponents.FilePlanComponentContent;
 import org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.model.fileplancomponents.FilePlanComponentFields;
+import org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.model.fileplancomponents.FilePlanComponentProperties;
 import org.alfresco.rest.rm.community.requests.igCoreAPI.FilePlanComponentAPI;
 import org.alfresco.utility.report.Bug;
 import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
@@ -272,6 +273,11 @@ public class ElectronicRecordTests extends BaseRMRestTest
                                                                       .mimeType("text/plain")
                                                                       .build()
                                                                       )
+                                                              .properties(FilePlanComponentProperties
+                                                                        .builder()
+                                                                        .description(ELECTRONIC_RECORD_NAME)
+                                                                        .build()
+                                                                          )
                                                               .relativePath(RELATIVE_PATH)
                                                               .build();
 
@@ -283,6 +289,8 @@ public class ElectronicRecordTests extends BaseRMRestTest
         // get newly created electronic record and verify its properties
         assertTrue(filePlanComponentsAPI.getFilePlanComponent(recordCreated.getId())
                                         .getName().startsWith(ELECTRONIC_RECORD_NAME));
+        assertTrue(filePlanComponentsAPI.getFilePlanComponent(recordCreated.getId())
+                                        .getProperties().getDescription().equals(ELECTRONIC_RECORD_NAME));
         assertTrue(filePlanComponentsAPI.getFilePlanComponent(recordCreated.getParentId())
                                         .getName().equals(FOLDER_NAME));
         //get newly created electronic record using the relativePath