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As groovy is able to access FlexDeploy variables and Java classes, you can take advantage of Java libraries from Groovy script. For example, if there is Java library used to access the change management system, you can place those in the libext folder and use those classes from Groovy script. This allows you to keep the dynamic part of implementation in Groovy and use a Java library.
Create a groovy class. Example The example shown below has the methods implemented.
We are using Zendesk as a use case
All properties defined are available as groovy binding variables. For example, properties can be accessed directly like BMC_DOMAIN_NAME, BMC_SALESFORCE_HOST_NAME or BMC_USER_NAME etc
View file name ZendeskGroovyIntegrationcustom CMS.groovy
Implement all the methods described in the table in the API Implementation section
For any failure connecting to the system or if any issues with the data, then you can throw exception. For example throw new ApiException("Invalid credentials.", "");
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In order to compile your java class, you will need FlexDeployAPI.jar on classpath.
Implement all the methods described in the table in the API Implementation section.
For any failure connecting to the system or if any issues with the data, then you can throw exception. For example throw new ApiException("Invalid credentials.", "");
Once you are ready with unit testing, you can prepare Jar file for your credential store java class and other utility classes. This jar file can be placed on server classpath now.
For Tomcat, put Put this jar file in a new folder which is in $FLEXDEPLOY_HOME/apiext folder. This folder should be next to the apache-tomcat-flexdeploy -tomcat folder name apiext. This location is a change from versions before prior to 8.0.
If you are using any third - party libraries from your Java implementation, then those jar files will also need to be added to same apiext folder. Keep in mind that this can cause issues with server functioning, so be prepared to remove your additional library files.
To pickup changes to your API, the FlexDeploy server must be restarted.