Access to Lithium custom component

Hi gstelang

yes - it is by design. The component you mention is actually not a custom one, it is an out of the box Lithium one. Depending on what you want to achieve, you may first try to override a core component (this essentially "wraps" the standard component with additional logic). If that is not sufficient, then you can create a custom one. 

I do not necessarily agree with the statement around rebuilding: yes - there is a small learning curve (we do have plenty of training materials, code examples and this forum as a good source of inspiration) to get used to REST, but once you are up and running with it it becomes really powerful and it allows you to customize the platform to a degree that would be hardly achievable by just tweaking standard components. Once you are familiar with it, it is really quick to create and tweak custom components. We have convenience wrapper functions that allow you to call REST directly from a studio custom component without having to worry about authentication, HTTP handling etc...

Of course - I do not know what you want to achieve exactly, so it may be more complex than I imagine! 

Thanks