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Short description

GET or POST on the RESTful service automatically deployed for a custom object causes a 404-error.

How to reproduce

Go into Control Panel => Object / Objects.

Click the "+"-button to create a new object.

Enter some data -- which does not matter, but here's my example:

• Label: Blabla
• Plural label: Blablas
• Object name: Blabla

Click "Save".

The new object is now listed in the table. Click on "Blabla" in this table to edit it further.

Click on the tab "Fields".

Click on the "+" to add a new field. Here's what I entered:

• Label: Owner
• Field name: owner
• Type: Text

Click "Save".

Now switch to the tab "Details" and click "Publish" to publish the object. Liferay confirms in a small green box that it published it.

Open a new tab in the browser and go to the "Liferay API Explorer" -- mine is on: https://dragonkingchocolate.com/liferay/o/api

Click on "REST Applications" and the newly added object is available as RESTful API there: c/blablas

Select "c/blablas" from the drop-down.

Click on "GET / getBlablasPage" for querying the list of the objects. It opens the details for this RESTful operation.

Click on "Execute". I'd expect an empty list (with some meta-data being present), i.e. one single instance of the BlablasPage without any items. But I get a 404-error.

Click on "POST / postBlabla". The JSON to be sent doesn't really matter, because all data should be optional, but neither a full-blown JSON nor a minimal "{}" or "{ "owner": "abc" }" works -- all leads to a 404-error.

Liferay version

​​​​​​​Liferay Community Edition Portal 7.4.3.129 CE GA129 (December 09, 2024)

Liferay Community Edition Portal 7.4.3.120 CE GA120 (June 12, 2024)

...the error is the same in both versions.

Page-building works

Note that the building of a page to list/create/edit/delete instances of my custom object works fine. My object seems to be fully functional in the page I created for it -- but the RESTful API only gets 404-errors.