I am currently trying to use the Liferay JSON WebService API to access entities (e.g. "Student") from my database. I used ServiceBuilder to build Services for this entity and implemented a method "public Student getStudentByID(long StudentId){...}" in the StudentServiceImpl.
I am also able to see and access this method via "http://sampletest.com/RestTestLiferayProject-portlet/api/jsonws"
How can i invoke this service from another portlet?
my understanding is the json services are intended for use from outside your Liferay instance. From within a portlet you should be able to import your service classes and use them directly.
Apologies if I've misunderstood your question.
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We have a custom web service for Acumatica, that we would like to integrate into our extension library. This is a service that accepts data to post into Acumatica (multiple DACs used).
However, I cannot find any information on the proper way to do that.
We use Web API (Api Controller) and route based endpoints, and it is likely that some registration needs to take place when the extension library is loaded.
Any pointers to how this should be done?
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What is the ideal scenario to use platformwebservices and ycommercewebservices, and what is the difference between the two.
Platformwebservices
provide secure CRUD access to all models in the service layer over a well understood and widely adopted protocol.
A secured RESTful access to all Hybris models, when you create or update an item the platform web services will generate / update the API for you.It's accessible from '/ws410'. You do not need to change anything within this extension.
Ycommercewebservices
exposes part of the Commerce Facades as REST-based web services, including calls for product search and product details. The focus is to provide a working example of how a REST-based API can be exposed.
First it's a template, as it starts with 'Y' so to create your own you need to run 'ant extgen'. It will provide you RESTful access to few out of the box Facades. Up to you to add more Facades or update the existing one.
for OCC implementations use CommerceWebservices. PlatformWebservices are for doing basic CRUD operations and it completely bypasses the business logic .
So if you want to leverage any hybris provided business logic and don't want to write your own logic for example cart management CommerceWebservices is the recommended way.
I am new to ASP.NET MVC 5 and OWIN.
I have upgraded my project to MVC 5 to implement the authentication and authorization of my project. Problem is that my project does not store the user data. When user logins in I ask a different system via a WCF service to tell me if the user is authenticated. So I do not have a database nor tables that the user is stored in.
But I want to add the ability to login via social providers using OWIN. For this I will add a local database table to store the social provider Id/Token
Looking around other have asked similar question but only when they want to change database type store... Whilst I actually don't store the data... Is it still possible to customize this with ASP.NET Identity and how would I do this?
I would recommend creating a custom IUserStore that connects to the wcf service.
http://www.asp.net/identity/overview/extensibility/overview-of-custom-storage-providers-for-aspnet-identity
If you don't want to implement your own IUserStore, you can still use the built in default EF based UserStore and just only use the external login apis. The database schema will have a bunch of columns that will always be null like PasswordHash etc, but the operations you care about would still work fine:
CreateAsync(TUser) - Create a user
AddLoginAsync(userId, UserLoginInfo) - Associate an external login
FindAsync(UserLoginInfo) - Return the user with the associated external login
I looked into the solutions suggested. I found that the method names of the interfaces to implement did not really fit and there where way too many methods as well.
I ended up only using the OWIN Context in AccountController to extract the LoginInfo with all the details I wanted. This way I did not have to implement any custom versions of IUserLoginStore etc...
I wanted the simplest solution to implement and therefore I ended up with:
1. Added StartupAuth class from template mvc project and configured different providers there
1. In AccountController: Extracted the claims from LoginInfo,
2. Stored OpenId in a table for lookup and then continued on as before.
You have to provide a UserStore and pass it to the UserManager, if you are already using entityframework in the default mvc5 project, you can write your CustomUserStore which inherits from Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.UserStore and override the methods defined in Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.IUserLoginStore:
public interface IUserLoginStore<TUser, in TKey> : IUserStore<TUser, TKey>, IDisposable where TUser : class, Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.IUser<TKey>
{
Task AddLoginAsync(TUser user, UserLoginInfo login);
Task<TUser> FindAsync(UserLoginInfo login);
Task<Collections.Generic.IList<UserLoginInfo>> GetLoginsAsync(TUser user);
Task RemoveLoginAsync(TUser user, UserLoginInfo login);
}
if you don't use entityframework, you have to provide your own way of accessing your database,by writing a UserStore which implements IUserStore, IUserLoginStore, IUserClaimStore, IUserRoleStore,IUserPasswordStore,IUserSecurityStampStore (depends on your need but at least IUserStore and IUserLoginStore as IUserStore is mandatory and IUserLoginStore is what you want to add)
all these interfaces are in Microsoft.AspNet.Identity namespace.
here how to implement a Custom MySQL ASP.NET Identity Storage Provider and
here how to use Dapper ORM instead of EntityFramwework.
According to my requirement in Liferay, I have created custom fields for roles and assigned it to a user. My goal is to call the JSONWS API and get these custom fields using NodeJS. I am not able to decide which API I should call.
This Url is having APIs: http://www.liferay.com/api/jsonws
I will appreciate for any kind of help.
Regards
AFAIK there is no options to access the expando value via exposed webserveices.
Probably what you can do is that, create a custom portlet, add a dummy entity in the service builder and in that expose a method for web service. In that method call the role API and expando API , and return the result you want.
Custom Fields are called "Expando" in the API and are modeled like virtual tables. The functionality that's exposed through webservices is ExpandoColumn and ExpandoValue. Probably the best way to figure out the parameters to give is to look at the matching database tables. Careful: You should only ever read the database and not be tempted to write to it.
I hate giving the advice to go to the database, but this is probably the quickest - at least for my explanation :)
Finally, I got a genuine solution without hitting database directly. JSONWS is having api :
/portal.expandovalue/get-data
Which helped me to get attributes assigned to a particular role.
The above API needs 5 parameters to be passed.
companyId: whaterver the companyId assigned for your liferay.
className: It depends upon, we created attribute for role or user
com.liferay.portal.model.Role or com.liferay.portal.model.User
tableName: CUSTOM_FIELDS
columnName: It is the same name you given for attribute
classPK: It is nothing but your role or user ID for which you have created Attribute.
In case you are getting "java.lang.NullPointerException" when using #user3771220 solution, try com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.User
Looking to create a completely external portal using only HTML5, JS, and CSS to show CRM 2011 data. It does not look like I can use REST or SOAP because they cannot authenticate externally. Does anyone know how I would do this?
Thanks!
To do this, your OrganizationData.svc service would need to be externally accessible, and it would need to function without authentication (or, your authentication would need to happen within your javascript - where the end user would be able to read your source code). Either way is not a wise idea, since all of your data would be visible to the world!
If you are only dealing with internal authenticated users, read up on the oDATA endpoint.
If you want to deal with external and/or unauthenticated users, you'll need to find another way to do this that does all of the data filtering & authorization control you need.
I think we normally achieve this using a intermediary integration service. You could have a service which has access to the Org service through conventional CRM authentication, and which provides a number of methods which can be called anonymously (or by custom security) by client code.
For example, a web page calls the 'int' service's 'getContact' method, passing an email address of the user. The 'int' service validates the user's email address and then retrieves the required data from CRM's org service, using credentials stored in a config file (a CRM user with sufficient permissions to serve the 'int' service's methods). The 'int' service then parses the data and returns it to the client code - which has no knowledge of CRM's existence - perhaps as JSON for usability.