Calling web scripts from Spring-based services

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:

1. Define RestTemplate in your Spring context file:

   <bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate" />

2. In the Spring context file, inject restTemplate in your Spring class as shown in the following example:

   <bean id="httpCommService" class="com.test.HTTPCallService">
     <property name="restTemplate" value="restTemplate" />
   </bean>

3. In the Java class, define the setter method for restTemplate as follows:

   private RestTemplate restTemplate;
   public void setRestTemplate(RestTemplate restTemplate) {
       this.restTemplate = restTemplate;
   }

4. In order to invoke a web script that has an authentication...