sidebarLinkService

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Hi,
I’m trying to create a couple of QuickLinks within my custom Space-Blueprint plugin. The documentation is horribly outdated (things like component import is no longer supported in atlassian-plugin.xml)
The xwork tag doesn’t seem to work as i guess some ‘actions’ need to trigger in order for it to run

Part of atlassian-plugin.xml

<xwork name="SideBar-xwork" key="SideBar-xwork">
        <package name="SideBar" extends="default" namespace="/plugins/${project.artifactId}">
            <default-interceptor-ref name="defaultStack"/>
            <action name="sidebar" class="com.ilm.atlassian.service.sidebar" method="docreate">
            </action>
        </package>
    </xwork>

sidebar.java which resides under src/main/java/com/atlassian/plugins/service

package com.atlassian.plugins.service;

import java.util.Map;
import com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.ConversionContext;
import com.atlassian.confluence.macro.Macro;
import com.atlassian.confluence.macro.MacroExecutionException;
import com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.annotation.component.Scanned;
import com.atlassian.plugin.spring.scanner.annotation.imports.ComponentImport;
// import com.atlassian.webresource.api.assembler.PageBuilderService;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.exception.ExceptionUtils;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
// import com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.SpaceManager;
// import com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.Space;
// import com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.actions.AbstractSpaceAction;
import com.atlassian.confluence.core.ConfluenceActionSupport;
import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.PageManager;
import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.Page;
import com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.ia.service.SidebarLinkService;

@Scanned
//annotation is an instruction for spring scanner.  In this tutorial we used spring scanner 1.2.13 - so we needed to tell spring scanner to scan this class.
public class sidebar extends ConfluenceActionSupport {
    private SidebarLinkService sidebarLinkService;

    @ComponentImport
    private final PageManager pageManager;

    @Autowired
    public sidebar(@ComponentImport SidebarLinkService sidebarLinkService, PageManager pageManager) {
        this.pageManager = pageManager;
        this.sidebarLinkService = sidebarLinkService;
    }

    public String doCreate(ConversionContext conversionContext) throws Exception {
        //Create QuickLink
        String cur_spacekey = conversionContext.getSpaceKey();
        String page_title = conversionContext.getPageContext().getPageTitle();
        Page page = pageManager.getPage(cur_spacekey, page_title);
        Long page_id = page.getId();
        String result = "Exist";
        try {
            // Check whether the Quick Link already exists
            boolean exists = sidebarLinkService.hasQuickLink(cur_spacekey, page_id);
            if (!exists) {
                sidebarLinkService.create(cur_spacekey, page_id, null, null);
                result = "Creating";
            }
        }
        catch(Exception e) {
            //  Block of code to handle errors
            String stackTraceAsString = ExceptionUtils.getStackTrace(e);
            return stackTraceAsString;
        }
        finally {
            return result;
        }
    }
}