eZ goes mobile - the RESTful way

eZ goes mobile
...the RESTful way

About me
Markus Birth
Software-Developer at silver.solutions GmbH
Berlin, Germany
silver.solutions offers great experience in connecting eZ Publish to ERP systems (Navision, Axapta, SAP R/3). We also do mobile apps.
I do mostly backend programming for eZ Publish sites where I'm specialized in interfaces. My second field of activity is mobile apps.

REST
-> Re presentational S tate T ransfer (Google it! Or try Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST )

Things you might need
What you need:
eZ 4.5 with ezpRestApiProvider
configured OAuth2 consumer credentials
user login with appropriate access rights
doc.ez.no
some client (e.g. a mobile app)

I am who I am (or: OAuth 2.0)
to communicate via REST, a valid access_token is required
can be retrieved via OAuth2 workflow
tricky for non-browser applications
2 ways for apps on mobile devices:
a) show login window in an own WebView and watch the currently shown URL for the endpoint URI
b) register a new protocol handler, set the endpoint_uri and react on that (works from any mobile browser)
e.g. mycrapp://

OAuth 2.0 login

eZ REST URL Scheme
Methods: GET , POST, PUT, DELETE
Base URL: http://myezsite.com/api/ezp/v1
/content/ object / [objectID]
/content/ node / [nodeID]
/content/ ( node | object ) / [ID] / fields
/content/ ( node | object ) / [ID] / field / [fieldID]
/content/node/ [nodeID] / list /offset/…/limit/…/sort/…/…
/content/node/ [nodeID] / childrenCount
non-default language: http://… ?translation= xxx-YY

The first request GET /api/ezp/v1/content/node/ 2 / list Authorization: OAuth 0123456789abcdef… Accept: application/json "childrenNodes": [ { "objectName": "Awards" , "classIdentifier": "subcategory", "datePublished": 1302091069, "dateModified": 1307614988, "objectRemoteId": "d003…3e94", "objectId": 1203, "nodeId": 1257, "nodeRemoteId": "f4ef…47f2", "fullUrl": "http://…/Awards", "link": "http://…/content/node/1257" }, { … } ],

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eZ goes mobile - the RESTful way

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