Connect Net Tcp Tridion Sites coreservice client using java

Connect Tridion Net Tcp using java

Reference: jni4net

Problem: Access nettcp connector using java which is a .Net Component

Solution: We can create .Net Wrapper which will use Tridion Core Service assembly, and we can generate java proxy using jni4net, and we'll consume those java proxies as reference for java application.

First we will create Dot.net Class library project which will deal with CoreService Assembly

Let’s give name as NetTcpConnector

Add reference TridionCoreService assembly from Tridion Sites Installation

Now you’ll see reference on projects references

Add System.ServiceModel and System.Runtime.Serialization assembly to references as shown in image above.

Then we’ll create connector class which will perform Tridion sites operation on project

We do clean and build we’ll get output dll file

Next step is Generate Java proxy using Jni4net, here are following steps to achieve it.

We’ll first download jni4net proxy

Place zip file at somewhere in your machine and extract it.

You’ll see folder structure like

Now Open Visual Studio native command prompt tool

Navigate to Jni4Net bin directory to access proxygen.exe file

And run the command

.\proxygen.exe ../../NetTcpConnector/bin/Debug/NetTcpConnector.dll -wd ../../jni4net-wd -dp ../../NetTcpConnector/bin/Debug/Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.dll

Where –wd is working directory which keeps generated build file after executed proxygen.exe

-dp represent dependency dll which is used by NetTcpConnector.dll

After executing go to working directory

Go to working directory run build.cmd file

Which generated proxy jar and dll file which will be used by java application

First we copy following files from jni4net lib folder to place it new folder called Java-jni4net-proxies-references

Also copy generated proxies using jni4net from jni4net working directory to same folder “Java-jni4net-proxies-references“ which we are going to use on java application.

Then we’ll place original .dll and core service client dll to same folder

Now we’ll write java program which calls dotnet method and provide output on java console

Add jni4net.j-0.8.8.0.jar and NetTcpConnector.j4n.jar to class path of java application

Now we’ll call GetTridionVersion method which was implementd on don.net side.

Now we run main.java

We’ll see following console which shows output of GetTridion Version method

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Connect Tridion sites Core service with Java

Introduction

Coreservice is used to perform operation on cms i.e. connect to cms, create content, create workflow etc.

To work with Coreservice with java we have to setup code which consume coreservice as wsdl soap client.

Repository

To check reference implementation please checkout

https://github.com/neeteshnarvaria/java-tridion-sites-coreservice

Here we have used maven to build application

Implementation 

Setup module to generate library from soap url.

1.          Setup build information on pom

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.4.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>wsdltoJava</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>wsimport</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <wsdlUrls>
        <wsdlUrl>http://localhost:91/webservices/CoreService201701.svc?wsdl</wsdlUrl>
                        </wsdlUrls>
                        <vmArgs>
                            <vmArg>-Djavax.xml.accessExternalSchema=all</vmArg>
                        </vmArgs>
                        <keep>true</keep>
                        <sourceDestDir>src/main/resources/wsdl</sourceDestDir>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

2.         Run the maven command “mvn clean install”.

3.         You will have jar file generated on .m2 repository directory.

Once the library is generated add them to dependency and build path of application where we need to write coreservice operations

Sample code to connect application with Tridion coreservice.

QName qName = new QName(Q_NAME_URI, Q_NAME_LOCAL_PART);

Service service = CoreService201701.create(new URL(CMS_WSDL_URL), qName);

ICoreService iCoreService = service.getPort(ICoreService.class);

Authenticator myAuth = new Authenticator() {

    @Override

    protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {

        return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password.toCharArray());

    }

};

Authenticator.setDefault(myAuth);

Where parameters are

private static final String CMS_WSDL_URL = getPropertyValue("wsdlUrl");

private static final String Q_NAME_URI = getPropertyValue("qNameUri");

private static final String Q_NAME_LOCAL_PART = getPropertyValue("qNameLocalPart");

And parameters configured on application.properties are

wsdlUrl=http://localhost:91/webservices/CoreService201701.svc?wsdl

qNameUri=http://www.sdltridion.com/ContentManager/CoreService

qNameLocalPart=CoreService201701

After connection have made then we will have iCoreService object which will help us to perform coreservice operations

For example to get CMS version

iCoreService.getApiVersion();

Please go through repository for example.

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Custom URL extension with Tridion Sites

Custom URL extension with Tridion Sites

Introduction

Custom URL extension is a feature/functionality which helps Content Editor to select data from 3^rd party service.

There are two Steps to Implement Custom URL.

1.       Tridion Sites Configuration - Define URL in CM Schema, which serves the data for Component field specified.

2.       Configure Service as Web Application - Host Web application on CM Web Application as virtual directory.

Tridion Sites Configuration

Custom URL is configured on Schema level i.e.

For example we have created Test Schema – TestTeaser

a.       Tridion Sites CM provide functionality of Custom URL on Schema 

b.      Set the value of custom URL, See below How to create web page which serves data to CM fields.

c.       For Example /CustomUrlExtension/Index.html

d.      Once value is set on schema then create component then you would see hyper link on field for which we have setup custom URL

e.       Then once you click on this you would see webpage on popup

f.        Then select any value from list

g.       Once submit value will be appeared on CM field and pop up is closed.

 

Setup Web Page/Web Application which serves data for headline

1.       To create Web Page which server data for CM field needs to have following PopupInit.js on page included
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/WebUI/Core/Controls/Popup/PopupInit.js"></script>

2.       Here we are using https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts for to get some example data.

3.       Sample web page view

Here is sample code for web page which will appear as pop up

<html>
<head>
    <style>
        ::-webkit-scrollbar {
            width: 12px;
        }

        ::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
            -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
            border-radius: 10px;
        }

        ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
            border-radius: 10px;
            -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
        }
    </style>
    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/WebUI/Core/Controls/Popup/PopupInit.js"></script>
</head>
<body onload="loadData()">
<div class="scrolling-data" style="margin-left: 40%;">
    <form name="myForm">
        <div id="title" style="font-size: 50;">Select the Post</div>
        <br>
        <div id="posts" style="height: 75vh;width: 70vh;overflow: scroll;overflow-x: hidden;">
        </div>
    </form>
    <button type="button" onclick="checkeSelectedValue()">Submit</button>
</div>
</body>
<script>
    var data = '';

    function loadData() {
        var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
            if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
                data = this.responseText;
                var jsonData = JSON.parse(data);
                jsonData.forEach(function (post) {
                    var d1 = document.getElementById('posts');
                    d1.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', '<input type="radio" name="post" id="' + post.id + '" value="' + post.title + '">' + post.title + '</input><br>');
                });
            }
        };
        xhttp.open("GET", "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts", true);
        xhttp.send();
    }

    function checkeSelectedValue() {

        var post = document.querySelector('input[name = "post"]:checked').value;
        var fields = window.dialogArguments.getFields();
        if (fields && fields.length > 0) {
            fields[0].setValues([post]);
        }
        window.close();

    }
</script>
</html>

On Submit web page will set the value to CM field and the close current window.

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