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Streamlining the Core Service Java Client

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In a previous post (http://yatb.mitza.net/2012/12/a-core-service-java-client.html), I was presenting the Java client for Core Service. In this post, I decided to post the distributable JAR on my Google Code project page. You can find the JAR distributable [direct link] for Core Service Java client for Tridion 2011 SP1 HR1 at the following URL: https://code.google.com/p/yet-another-tridion-blog/source/browse/trunk/Core+Service+Java+Client/#Core%20Service%20Java%20Client%2Fdist

The only new feature of this distribution is the CoreServiceFactory class in package mitza.coreservice.client, which allows you to easily obtain a Core Service client object. The following methods are exposed:
  • getBasicHttpClient() - Get the singleton CoreService client for the BasicHttp endpoint;
  • getService() - Get the singleton CoreService2011 service object. This method is used internally by the get*Client methods. The logic uses a WSDL local to the JAR rather than connecting and downloading the WSDL from the remote Core Service server;

The factory also allows to specify the Core Service base URL, user name and password:
  • setDefault(String coreServiceBaseUrl) - Set the default CoreService URL. The user name and password are omitted in this case -- the currently logged in user is used implicitely;
  • setDefault(String userName, String password) - Set the default CoreService user and password. The Core Service base URL is omitted in this case -- the URL http://localhost is used implicitely
  • setDefault(String coreServiceBaseUrl, String userName, String password) - Set the default CoreService URL, user name and password;

Example: how to get a Core Service client object:

CoreServiceFactory.setDefault("http://t2011sp1hr1.playground", "administrator", "password");
ICoreService client = CoreServiceFactory.getBasicHttpClient();

The distributable contains a test class Test in package mitza.coreservice.client. The program expects 0 to 3 arguments ranging from only specifying the URL to all 3 params (URL, user name, password).

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    if (args.length == 1) { // URL
        CoreServiceFactory.setDefault(args[0]);
    } else if (args.length == 2) { // username, password
        CoreServiceFactory.setDefault(args[0], args[1]);
    } else if (args.length == 3) { // URL, username, password
        CoreServiceFactory.setDefault(args[0], args[1], args[2]);
    } else {
        CoreServiceFactory.setDefault("http://t2013.playground");
    }

    ICoreService client = CoreServiceFactory.getBasicHttpClient();

    System.out.println("Api version: " + client.getApiVersion());

    UserData currentUser = client.getCurrentUser();
    System.out.println("Current user: '" + currentUser.getTitle() + "' '" +
            currentUser.getDescription() + "' " + currentUser.getId());

    System.out.println("Publication objects:");
    PublicationsFilterData filter = new PublicationsFilterData();
    ArrayOfIdentifiableObjectData systemWideList = client.getSystemWideList(filter);
    for (IdentifiableObjectData iod : systemWideList.getIdentifiableObjectData()) {
        PublicationData publication = (PublicationData) iod;
        System.out.println("\t" + publication.getTitle());
    }

    System.out.println("Publications XML:");
    GetSystemWideListXmlResult resultXml = client.getSystemWideListXml(filter);
    Element element = (Element) resultXml.getAny();
    Utils.printDocument(element.getOwnerDocument(), System.out);
}

To run the code, one could use runtest.bat available:

set classpath=;core-service-client-2011sp1hr1.jar
java -cp %classpath% mitza.coreservice.client.Test http://localhost author tridion


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