Creating a simple REST service in XPages // Oliver Busse

Creating a simple REST service in XPages

Monday, August 28, 2017 at 10:18 PM UTC

This evening I encountered this question on twitter:

Do any Notes friends know if you can use JAXB to unmarshall XML in a java Notes Agent?
— Steve Zavocki (@szavocki) 28. August 2017

The answers were clear and so was mine: don't try to mimic XML or something using an Agent. Use a Custom REST Service instead.

The principle is very simple: create an XPage, place a REST service component on it and point it to a custom service bean which you have to create as a Java class. This Java class has to extend the CustomServiceBean class and to incorporate the renderService method which should generate an output. This output nowadays should be a JSON response.

I set up a simple example NSF to demonstrate how this works here

domino extlib java rest xpages

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Sean Cull wrote on 10.06.2020, 22:22

+1 for Patrick's question.

Our use case is that we got a huge data collection in a bean and want to page through it without having to populate the bean again. Is this possible if it was in the application bean ?

Probably a newbie question but if a Domino authenticated user in Angular makes a second API call ( for records 101 - 200 ) can they pull these from a session scope bean ?

Trying to understand how we can page through a large view of Domino FT search results in an Angular front end.

Thanks, Sean

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