(DXA) Resolve Tcm Uri to url

Question

We are implementing a DXA website where one of it's features is a search page for specific component types. We are implementing this using a spring controller with a service which in its turn talks to a SOLR instance (which gets its data from SI4T).

We are now trying to solve following problem:

These components have an image that we need to show within the results on that search page. However SI4T puts the ItemId of that image within our SOLR index. So for this setup to work we need a way that we can resolve an item id to a url (we do have the publication that we are in so constructing the full tcm uri is not a problem).

Is there a LinkResolver that we can access from a plain spring rest controller?

Kr,

Thomas

Answer 1

Yes, there is. You can use the DXA LinkResolver abstraction for that purpose.

You can get access to this Link Resolver in your own Controller using Spring's Dependency Injection. See, for example: https://github.com/sdl/dxa-web-application-java/blob/master/dxa-framework/dxa-common-api/src/main/java/com/sdl/webapp/common/controller/PageController.java