REST API

[craftcms]

REST API

[phoob]

Would you consider just going with GraphQL instead..? https://github.com/markhuot/craftql

[angrybrad]

Posted by Brandon Kelly ([email protected]) on 2015/03/06 03:54:45 +0000

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There’s nothing stopping you from building custom REST APIs on top of Craft using custom plugin controllers. And there's at least one plugin out there that does it for you (https://github.com/wesrice/rest-easy).

We're not opposed to adding something into the core (Yii 2 actually makes it much easier, thanks to a base REST controller), but it would be quite a bit of work since we don't want to make any assumptions about the endpoint URLs, permissions, and how much data is sent to GET requests, etc., and coming up with a user-friendly UI for defining all that stuff will be a challenge.

[angrybrad]

Posted by Jake Zerrer ([email protected]) on 2015/07/24 18:06:51 +0000

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Thinking about using Craft to back a very large commercial site. Craft's back-office editing system is amazing. Unfortunately, we can't use Craft unless content publishing and retrieval is available via a json REST API.

Any chance this is on your roadmap?

[angrybrad]

Posted by Rob Erskine ([email protected]) on 2015/07/13 17:58:24 +0000

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I find that I end up creating custom JSON routes to accomplish this for a lot of projects. Having it be done out of the box would be a huge timesaver. Even just using GETs to retrieve data would be awesome, however having the ability to POST with a client/secret/or another kind of auth would be amazing too.