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Call Plugin Portlet JSON Web Services Using Portal Context
We already developed portlet (in part-I) and once we deployed the portlet we will use portal context to call Plugin portlet JSON web services.
We can get web service by accession JSONWS API screen as Admin and there you can see all your web services information like what is return type and what are the parameters need for web service.
We can also get code snippets for different clients like Java script code and web service URL
The general URL pattern to call Plugin portlet JSON web services using Portal Context as follows
Server:
It’s your domain name or host name if you are in local the its “localhost”
Port:
It’s your application server port number.
portal-context:
It’s our liferay portal context and we will represent portal context with slash (/)
plugin-context:
It’s our plug-in portlet context name its simple as portlet name
api/jsonws:
This is path for call JSON Web Service servlet this is configured in portal web.xml
service-class-name:
service-class-name is generated from the service’s class name by removing the Service or ServiceImpl suffix and making it lower case. This is our service class name where we implemented custom method or it is simple the entity name which is in service.xml. In our example we implemented our method in EmployeeServiceImpl.java
Finally we have to use in URL as employeewhen we observe it’s just entity name in
service.xml
service-method-name:
Service-method-name is generated from the service’s method name by converting its camel case to lower case and using dashes (-) to separate words
Finally our Complete URL like this for our Example:
Portal Context | / |
Plugin context path | LiferayJSONWebservices-portlet |
Web service servelet path | /api/jsonws |
Service Class Name | EmployeeServiceImpl.java converted as employee |
Service Method Name | getEmplyee(--) converted as get-employee |
When we access Plugin portlet JSON web services form portal context all authentication mechanism applies by liferay when we access web services.
This is general URL pattern to call JSON web services and we can see all web service URL information form admin screen
Passing parameters and its values:
We can pass parameters in two was
- Query String
- URL Parameters
Query String URL Notation
Example:
public com.meera.db.model.Employee getEmployee(long emplyeeId){ } Web service URL with Query String Parameters As follows Result: {"employeeDesignation":"SoftwareEngineer","emplyeeId":1,"emplyeeName":"meera"} |
URL Parameters
We can pass parameters to web service as URL parameters and here param name and values separated by slash (/). And here parameter notation will be based on the param names we have used in java implementation method and each capital letter in name will be separated by – and capital letter will become small latter.
URL pattern Web service Notation:
Example:
public com.meera.db.model.Employee getEmployee(long emplyeeId){ } Web service URL with Query String Parameters As follows http://test@liferay.com:test@localhost:8080/api/jsonws/ LiferayJSONWebservices-portlet.employee/get-employee/emplyee-id/1 Result: {"employeeDesignation":"SoftwareEngineer","emplyeeId":1,"emplyeeName":"meera"} |
For Our Example Complete URL to access employee data by passing employee id is following like this
http://test@liferay.com:test@localhost:8080 /api/jsonws/LiferayJSONWebservices-portlet.employee/get-employee/ emplyee-id/1 OR Result: {"employeeDesignation":"SoftwareEngineer","emplyeeId":1,"emplyeeName":"meera"} |
Note:
Some time its ask Authentication so we should pass admin credentials as URL headers
With authentication The URL like follow
OR Result: {"employeeDesignation":"SoftwareEngineer","emplyeeId":1,"emplyeeName":"meera"} |
Access Plugin Portlet Web service Information using Admin Screen
Well we understand how JSON web service URL will be generated and passing parameters. We will have JOSNWS API admin screen there you can get all information and also we can some code snippets to call web service
Note:
To access JSONWS API screen you need login as portal admin then only you can access web services information.
The following are steps to get web service information from admin screen
Step: 1
We need access web services admin screen from following URL
Note:
When we access above URL by default we can see all liferay portal web services.
The following is screen to show JSONWS API
Step: 2
Once we get the screen in left hand side we have Context Path Select box there we need to select our Plugin portlet context
The following screen shows you select the context path
Step: 3
Once we select Plugin portlet context path we can see all entities and its service in the panel and each service is hyper link when you click on web service method you can see all information about method
The following is screen show the web service method information
Step: 4
Now we need click on invoke button so that we can see all code snippets and URL to call web service
Step: 4
Now we can see web service URL when we click on URL example tab. This URL we will use in any client to access web service. When we call from other client we need to pass authorized use credentials to access data using web service URL
The following is screen shows you to web Service URL
Note:
When get web service URL we need pass parameter values as input so that we can see full URL and it can get the JSON data
The URL we accessed from admin screen and we already login as admin that why we no need provide any authorization information but when we access URL from other clients we need to pass authorization information i.e. we need pass admin credentials as URL http headers.
The following is example URL that contains Authorization Information
With authentication The URL like follow
http://test@liferay.com:test@localhost:8080/api/jsonws/ LiferayJSONWebservices-portlet.employee/get-employee?emplyeeId=1 OR http://test@liferay.com:test@localhost:8080/api/jsonws/ LiferayJSONWebservices-portlet.employee/get-employee/emplyee-id/1 Result: {"employeeDesignation":"SoftwareEngineer","emplyeeId":1,"emplyeeName":"meera"} |
Important Portal Properties when we work with Liferay JSON web services
We need to override following portal properties so that it will allow calling liferay JSON web services, we need register host names and we need to tell what are methods allow to public access
The following properties we need to write in portal-ext.properties file.
json.service.auth.token.hosts.allowed=127.0.0.1,SERVER_IP json.service.auth.token.enabled=false jsonws.web.service.public.methods=* jsonws.servlet.hosts.allowed=127.0.0.1,SERVER_IP |
More information Please have look into following link
Note:
Sometime browser not allows pass credentials in URL so we need pass in the program as Authorizationheader and type is basic.
Calling Plugin Portlet JSON Web Service from Ajax
The following is simple Ajax Program Call Portal Service with Basic Authorization Header
The following example uses the get Employee JSON Web Services of Plugin portlet and in the alert it will show employee name. This is just example
Here you need look into the part how to pass Authorization header in the request this is very important.
Here we are passing Authorization header type basic and we will encode the user credentials.
<%@ include file="init.jsp"%> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).on('ready',function(){ var username ="test@liferay.com"; var password ="test"; function make_base_auth(user, password) { var tok = user + ':' + password; var hash = btoa(tok); return "Basic " + hash; } $.ajax({ url: 'http://localhost:8080/api/jsonws/ LiferayJSONWebservices-portlet.employee/get-employee/emplyee-id/1', dataType: "json", type: "get", success: function(data){ alert(data.employeeName); }, beforeSend: function(xhr){ xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization',make_base_auth(username, password)); }, complete: function(){ }, error: function(){ } }); }); </script> |
Passing Parameters Values in Ajax call
<%@ include file="init.jsp"%> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).on('ready',function(){ var username ="test@liferay.com"; var password ="test"; function make_base_auth(user, password) { var tok = user + ':' + password; var hash = btoa(tok); return "Basic " + hash; } $.ajax({ url: 'http://localhost:8080/api/jsonws/ LiferayJSONWebservices-portlet.employee/get-employee', data:{ emplyeeId:"1"} dataType: "json", type: "get", success: function(data){ alert(data.employeeName); }, beforeSend: function(xhr){ xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization',make_base_auth(username, password)); }, complete: function(){ }, error: function(){ } }); }); </script> |
Note:
When we pass parameters values in Ajax call its nothing but passing parameters as query string URL so here we need to consider notation of passing parameters and its values in web service URL.
Passing parameters values as URL parameters are different from passing as query string.
Example:
Query String ?employeeId=1 URL Parameter /employee-id/1 |
We can use Ajax code in HTML page or JSP page then you can see the result in alert.
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