We have a use case where we would like to have and enpoint processed on the serverside. It would help our presentation a lot. I know rest calls can be made in java to get the data back from an endpoint. Is there a way to do that in freemaker on lithium?
I think this would be beneficial from a convenience perspective, but you can already accomplish basically the same thing. If you consider that an endpoint is essentially a stand-alone custom component, all you're really doing with an endpoint is rendering output from Freemarker code. If you find yourself wanting to use code "within the community" that you've already added to an endpoint, here's what I would suggest doing...
I hope this helps!
Hi jlutterloh,
sorry, as I know, it is not possible to do this in component (including endpoint result without JavaScript) at this moment.
if you worries about the UI "flashing" effect by including endpoint result with JavaScript, you may want to hide the outter div first, call the endpoint, add generated html and show the div. for exmaple, I created an Endpoint in Studio which reaches some 3-rd party API and generate a HTML, and in my another component, I just do something like this.
<#assign kb_endpoint_url = "/plugins/custom/customer-id-goes-here/community-id-goes-here/endpoint-goes-name-here" />
<@liaAddScript>
(function($) {
$(document).ready(function() {
function callLithiumEndpoint() {
$('.my-div-css-class-goes-here').hide();
var jqxhr = $.get("${kb_endpoint_url}" function(data) {
console.log("success");
$('.my-div-css-class-goes-here').prepend(data);
})
.done(function() { console.log("second success"); })
.fail(function() { console.log("error"); })
.always(function() { console.log("finished"); $('.tmy-div-css-class-goes-here').show(); });
}
callLithiumEndpoint();
});
})(LITHIUM.jQuery);
</@liaAddScript>
I hope that this is helpful for you.
Hi jordane,
I don't think this is currently supported - I suggest raising this as an idea on the ideas board to see if this is something on the roadmap or wheter there are limitations around this.
Thanks,
Please support this idea here - http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/customer-ideas/There-should-be-a-rest-call-in-freemarker-for-endpoints/idi-p/96934
