Tutorial 3 - CoreLookup

Introduction

In this tutorial, you will inspect an Email resource that uses core commands to obtain e-mail information from the Elastic Path Core.

Warning: Before you begin

Make sure your development environment has been properly set up as described in Setting up your Developer Environment.

Begin: Installing Cortex API Tutorials

The files created in this tutorial may be found in the tutorials zip under /Rest-Tutorials/rest-resource-corelookup directory.

rest-resource-corelookup has the following directory structure:

<artifact_id>
- src
  - main
    - java
    - - com.extension.rest
      - core
        
        command
        
        dto
        
        assembler
        
        EmailDtoAssembler.java
        
        EmailDto.java
        
        user
        
        impl
        
        GetEmailCommandImpl.java
        
        GetEmailCommand.java and GetEmailCommandImpl.java
        
        resources
        
        corelookup
        
        EmailMutator.java
        
        command
        
        impl
        
        LinkToEmailStrategy.java
        
        ReadEmailCommandBuilder.java
        
        ReadProfileStrategy.java
        
        impl
        
        EmailResourceOperatorImpl.java
        
        rel
        
        EmailResourceRels.java
        
        schema
        
        representation
        
        EmailRepresentation.java
    - resources
    - - OSGI-INF
      - blueprint
        
        email-blueprint
        
        springCtx-import
        
        config
        permission.properties
      - spring
      - applicationContext-corelookup-resource.xml
  - test
    - java
- target
- pom.xml

The Email data transfer object. It is used to wrap and propagate data from the core to the resource.

The assembler responsible for creating EmailDtos.

GetEmailCommand.java and GetEmailCommandImpl.java implements the method used to retrieve email information from the core.