Consuming Liferay JSON Web Services

In previous post, we exposed custom liferay plugin service as JSON web service. In this post, we are consuming that service using sample standalone java class.

Liferay Custom JSON Web Service Development

Following is the step by step description of generating a custom liferay plugin service and exposing it as JSON Web Service.



STEP:1 Create a liferay plugin project and create new service


Here is the sample service.xml



Make sure remote-service=”true” in entity tag declaration.



STEP:2  Build the service.



STEP:3  Add your custom method in SampleLocalServiceImpl class



STEP:4  Build the service.



STEP:5  Add the method definition to SampleServiceImpl class



STEP:6  build the service.



STEP:7  Add the following <servlet> and <servlet-mapping> Entries to portlet's web.xml file -



STEP:8  deploy the portlet.


STEP:9  To access your json web services enter the following url -

http://localhost:8080/<<portlet-context>>/api/jsonws





and Its Done!!!