Mastering Producing Liferay Headless APIs

Digital transformation requires adaptable integration strategies to deliver consistent, personalized experiences across diverse channels. Headless APIs are essential to these strategies by providing access to essential data and functionality. Equally important, service APIs must evolve alongside business needs to maintain agility and scalability as customer demands shift.

In addition to extensive out-of-the-box (OOTB) APIs, Liferay also provides multiple options for producing API endpoints: Liferay Objects, REST Builder, and microservice client extensions. With Objects, you can model data structures and automatically generate API endpoints without coding. By contrast, REST Builder is a code generation tool that accelerates implementation for custom API endpoints. Finally, using microservice client extensions, you can create bridging APIs to facilitate interaction between existing Liferay services and external systems.

This course introduces developers and architects to available methods for producing custom API endpoints in Liferay. It assumes general familiarity with Liferay workspaces, developer tooling, objects, headless APIs. If these concepts are new to you, consider taking these courses:

• Mastering Liferay Workspaces and Tooling
• Mastering Data Modeling with Liferay Objects
• Foundations of Liferay Headless APIs

Additionally, you should have a basic understanding of programming concepts but don't need to know any specific programming language.

By the end of this course, you'll have the knowledge and skills to

• Understand the strengths and use cases of each API production method.
• Generate no-code APIs using Liferay Objects.
• Extend object APIs with endpoints for custom actions.
• Produce APIs with REST Builder.
• Create API projects restricting or enhancing OOTB APIs for precise use cases.
• Leverage client extensions to create bridging APIs that connect Liferay and external systems.

In this course, you'll learn about producing Liferay's headless APIs through the lens of a fictional company, Clarity Vision Solutions. Before diving into the technical aspects of producing APIs, you'll learn about Clarity and their critical success factors.