Property aliasing allows you to create virtual components with properties that assemble values from a variety of sources. Use virtual components to gather data from a variety of sources and return it in a single REST Web Services request.
To create a virtual component with property aliasing:
Add a
componentelement to the/atg/rest/filtering/filteringConfiguration.xmlconfiguration file for your Oracle ATG Web Commerce platform server. Specify the Nucleus path for the virtual component in thenameattribute of that element.Include one or more
propertyelements in thecomponentelement. Either draw the value of the component from another component property using thecomponentandtargetattributes or from a custom class using theproperty-customizerattribute.
The following example configuration creates a virtual component. It specifies the name of a component that does not exist in the name attribute of the component tag, thus creating a virtual component. When creating virtual components in this way, do not use the item-descriptor element.
When a REST client requests this component, the list of properties that are specified inside the component element will be rendered.
<rest-filtering> <component name="/some/nonexisting/Component"> <property name="property1" component="/some/other/Component" target="aProperty"/> <property name="property2" property-customizer="some.class.Here"/> </component> <rest-filtering>
