Introduction

BEdita 4 exposes a set of default endpoints to model and handle your data and to perform many other tyipical backend API operations. Throughout this documentation a description of each of these core endpoints is given.

All API examples are conventionally described using only HTTP requests and responses i.e. methods, url, headers and bodies. There are intentionally no API client language specific examples, so a basic knowledge of REST API concepts and HTTP is necessary.

Headers

Since the primary exchange format is JSON API its content negotiation rules are applied with some extensions.

Every request must contain an Accept header with one of the following values:

  • application/vnd.api+json JSON API default content type
  • application/json is also fine; considered a synonym for JSON API, is treated the same way

Under special circumstances, and only for GET requests, also text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xhtml and text/xhtml may be valid, provided that HTML accept is configured (see Accept): response will be an HTML version of the JSON body. Main use is enable data navigation using a browser only in test and development enviroments.

Request containing input data like POST, PATCH and in some cases DELETE must also provide a Content-Type header where accepted values are:

  • application/vnd.api+json JSON API default content type
  • application/json is considered a synonym for JSON API just like Accept

Note: some special requests like POST /auth or POST /signup will require application/json since not JSON API compliant, see ref:auth-login or ref:signup-request for some examples.

Other two important headers are:
  • Authorization containing JWT token in the form Bearer {token} to identify the user performing the request
  • X-Api-Key containing a token to identify the application performing the request

Typical requests will then be like:

POST /users HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/vnd.api+json
Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json
Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9......

GET /users/123 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
X-Api-Key: WF0IjoxNDk1MTgzMjgzLCJuYmYiOjE0OTUxODMyODMsInN1

Dynamic endpoints

Every object type in BEdita defines a new endpoint dynamically, so there will be more dynamic endpoints in a typical project setup than the ones described here.

Some core object types like documents or profiles already provide their endpoints namely /documents and /profiles where through GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE methods you will be able to manage their data in the same way you can do in Create a user.

The only difference will be data structure and relations between objects that will of course vary from type to type hence from endpoint to endpoint.

Same will happen for new object types created dynamically in Object Types /model/object_types: a new dedicated endpoint is created, so a new cats object type will automatically have its own /cats endpoint.