Lately I was trying to insert some content into liferay programmatically and I saw in many API calls that there was a parameter object of type ServiceContext. I didn’t realize at the beginning what it’s for, but after having a problem creating a vocabulary, it got more clear:
There is a method
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which creates a vocabulary with the given title. I used it in my code, but if a vocabulary with the same name was already there a DuplicateVocabularyException was thrown. So in the exception handling I decided to get this vocabulary using the following method:
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If you look closely you will notice that the get- method requires a groupId. No such parameter was required in the add- method. I think this is a little declaration bug in the API, because it seems that the groupId is required for the existence of a vocabulary.
After having a look at the source code of the portal, I saw in the add- method that the groupId has been used in the insertion from the ServiceContext. So, the ServiceContext is a simple bean that carries all the necessary (or not) information needed for the API service calls. More details here.