Cannot enable access to ServiceLocator in Liferay SaaS

Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM).

Issue

• I would like to enable access to ServiceLocator in my Liferay SaaS environment

Environment

• Liferay SaaS
• DXP 7.4

Resolution

• Due to the multi-tenant nature of Liferay SaaS there are several variables that can not be enabled, including ServiceLocator.
• As a replacement approach for ServiceLocator, use the variable restClient which allows you to very easily consume Liferay’s headless APIs.
• Here is an example of how to use the restClient variable:
  

  <div class="fragment_1">
  
      [#assign
          myNotifications = restClient.get("/headless-user-notification/v1.0/my-user-notifications").items
      /]
      
      [#list myNotifications as curNotification]
      
      <ul class="list-group">
          <li class="list-group-item">
              <div class="date-created">${curNotification.dateCreated}</div>
              <div class="message">${curNotification.message}</div>
          </li>
      </ul>         
      
      [/#list]
  
  </div>