The way Plone does traversal (mapping URLs to objects) makes it a really good fit for a proper REST interface. Timo will describe the current state of plone.restapi, a high quality and fully documented RESTful hypermedia API.

1. plone.restapi
a bridge to the modern web
Plone Conference Boston 2016 — Timo Stollenwerk, kitconcept GmbH

2. 3 years ago…

3. The modern web

4. JavaScript

5. Plone

6. Headless CMS

7. plone.restapi

8. Content Negotiation
Client: „Accept: application/json“
Server: „Content-Type: application/json"

9. Authentication
POST /@login { username, password }

10. Content
{
"@id": "http://localhost:8080/Plone",
"@type": "Plone Site",
"items": [
{
"@id": "http://localhost:8080/Plone/front-page",
"@type": "Document",
"description": "Congratulations!",
"title": "Welcome to Plone"
}
],
}

12. CRUD
POST /my-folder {…}
GET /my-folder/1
PUT /my-folder/1
DELETE /my-folder

13. Schema
GET Plone/@types/Collection

15. Components

16. Navigation
GET /@components/navigation

17. Breadcrumbs
GET /@components/breadcrumbs

18. Workflow
POST /front-page/@workflow/publish

19. Registry
GET /@registry/my-setting
PUT /@registry/my-setting

20. Users
POST /@users {…}
GET /@users/tisto
PUT /@users/tisto
DELETE /@users/tisto

21. Search
GET/@search?SearchableText=

23. Current Status

24. Start today!
pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.rest
pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.restapi

25. plone.restapi
a bridge to the modern web
Plone Conference Boston 2016 — Timo Stollenwerk, kitconcept GmbH
Timo Stollenwerk
kitconcept.com
github.com/kitconcept
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