Creating a custom subscription

You must create a custom subscription object if you want user events to be processed automatically by your own Java class. You use the REST API to create the subscription object.

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To create a custom subscription by using the REST API, send an HTTP POST message to the following URL:

http://hostname:port/WSRR/8.5/Content/Subscription

If you have multiple instances of WSRR deployed, you must identify the instance by specifying its prefix:

http://hostname:port/prefixWSRR/8.5/Content/Subscription

Where prefix is the WSRR Instance Prefix that you specified when you created the instance.

The body of the message must include the following property setting:

<property name="_notifierType" value="your_notifier_type"/>

The value of the _notifierType property must match the value of the type attribute of a plug-in definition in the subscription notifier plug-in configuration file. Then, user events are sent to the Java class specified in that plug-in definition; see the Related link for further information.

Optionally, you can include the following property setting to specify your custom endpoint to which notification messages are sent:

<property name="_endPointReference" value="your_custom_endpoint"/>

For full details of the message body, and the response message that is returned, see the following subtopics: