Controller implementation – not mandatory!
The actual business logic for a web script resides in the web script controller. The main functionalities such as interacting with repository, for example, to query the repository, add content, update content, delete content, and so on are part of the web script controller implementation.
There are two types of controller implementations possible to implement while creating web scripts in Alfresco:
- The JavaScript-backed controller
- The Java-backed controller
The JavaScript-backed controller
JavaScript-backed controller is known as the web script controller script that has the web script business logic implemented in a JavaScript file. Alfresco provides a set of JavaScript APIs that can be used in the web script controller to interact with the Alfresco backend repository. A JavaScript controller can read the query string parameters of the web script URI, perform the required repository operations, and populate the model object to render the response...
