If you need to invoke an Alfresco web script from Spring-based services, then you need to use RestTemplate to invoke HTTP calls. This is the most commonly used technique to execute HTTP calls from Spring-based classes. In order to do this, the following are the steps to be performed. The code snippets are also provided:
Define
RestTemplatein your Spring context file:<bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate" />
In the Spring context file, inject
restTemplatein your Spring class as shown in the following example:<bean id="httpCommService" class="com.test.HTTPCallService"> <property name="restTemplate" value="restTemplate" /> </bean>
In the Java class, define the setter method for
restTemplateas follows:private RestTemplate restTemplate; public void setRestTemplate(RestTemplate restTemplate) { this.restTemplate = restTemplate; }In order to invoke a web script that has an authentication...