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Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos
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Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos When you need additional fields in your application, you can always add them in your service model definition and re-run Service Builder. This adds new columns...
Implementing an Item Selector
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Implementing an Item Selector Item selectors are pop-up dialogs for selecting assets, such as documents, videos, or users. By configuring the item selector's criteria and defining its usage, you...
Advanced Queries
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Advanced Queries Service Builder doesn't limit you to elements in service.xml. If simple finders aren't sufficient for getting data out of your application, there are three other ways to make the...
Defining Entities
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Defining Entities Entities are the heart and soul of a service. They represent the map between the model objects in Java and your database fields and tables. Service Builder automatically maps your...
Configuring Global Service Options
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Configuring Global Service Options A service's global options apply to all its entities. Here are the options: Dependency Injector Package path Multiversion concurrency control Namespace...
Defining Entity Finder Methods
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Defining Entity Finder Methods Finder methods retrieve entity objects from the database based on specified parameters. For each finder defined, Service Builder generates several methods to fetch,...
Adding Model Hints
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Adding Model Hints Once you've used Service Builder to define model entities, you may want to refine how users enter that data. Model hints specify entity data restrictions and other formatting....
Defining Entity Columns
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Defining Entity Columns An entity's columns represent its attributes. These attributes map table fields to Java object fields. Here you'll examine the sample project from Understanding and...
Defining Entity Relationships
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Defining Entity Relationships Relationships between database entities or Java objects are necessary for most applications. Take Liferay's Message Boards application as an example. Each Message...
Configuring service.properties
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Configuring service.properties Service Builder generates a service.properties file in your *-service module's src/main/resources folder. Liferay uses this file's properties to alter your service's...
Business Logic with Service Builder
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Business Logic with Service Builder Once you've generated model, persistence, and service code with Service Builder, you can begin adding business logic. Entities generated by Service Builder...
Connecting Service Builder to an External Database
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Connecting Service Builder to an External Database Service builder creates the necessary tables for the service in the lportal database with all other data used by Liferay. If you want to store the...
Modifying Database Fields in Development
Official Documentation
Modifying Database Fields in Development As you develop an application, you might need to add fields to your database. This is a normal process of iterative development: you get an idea for a new...
Service Builder Basics
Official Documentation
Service Builder Basics Using Service Builder helps you learn it. You'll use it to learn the basics: Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code: Define a basic model, generate code from it,...
Sorting Entity Instances
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Sorting Entity Instances Often, you want to retrieve multiple instances of a given entity and list them in a particular order. The service.xml file lets you specify the default order of your...
Using Upgrade Processes
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Using Upgrade Processes Liferay DXP 7.4 U10+/Portal 7.4 GA14+ An upgrade of your application may require making changes to your database tables. Liferay's upgrade framework makes it easy to make...
Developing a Web Application
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Developing a Web Application
Multithreading Process
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Multithreading Process Liferay DXP 7.4 U10+ or Liferay Portal 7.4 GA14+ Your Upgrade Processes may involve making complex changes to large data sets. If performance is critical, use the...
Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions
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Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions Liferay DXP 7.4 U10/Portal 7.4 GA14 and Below Follow these steps to create an upgrade process for your module: Open your module's bnd.bnd file, and...
Invoking a Service Locally
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Invoking a Service Locally Service Builder services that are deployed to DXP/Portal can be invoked from other classes in the same JVM. These services are local to the classes. Service Builder...