Objects /objects

/objects endpoint deals mainly with object retrieval and CRUD operations on objects in general.

Main responsabilities of this endpoint are:

• get a single object
• get a collection of objects, using many filters like trees navigation, search, types
• create a new object
• modify or remove an existing object

Get a single object

GET /objects/(object_id)

Get an object detail.

Example request:

GET /objects/15 HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "api": "objects",
    "data": {
      ....
    },
    "method": "get",
    "params": [],
    "url": "https://example.com/api/objects/15"
}

Get a collection of objects

The /objects endpoint can be used to retrieve a collection of objects.

GET /objects

It returns a collection of objects:

• if called with id query string parameter the response will contain a collection of the objects requested
• else it returns a paginated list of objects that are descendants of the related publication configured in app/config/frontend.ini.php.

Example request:

GET /objects HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

For readability the fields of objects are limited to “title” but they are similar to GET /objects/(object_id) example

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "api": "objects",
    "data": {
        "objects": [
            {
                "id": 2,
                "title": "title one"
            },
            {
                "id": 3,
                "title": "title two"
            },
            {
                "id": 4,
                "title": "title three"
            },
            {
                "id": 5,
                "title": "title four"
            },
            {
                "id": 6,
                "title": "title five"
            }
        ]
    },
    "method": "get",
    "paging": {
        "page": 1,
        "page_size": 5,
        "page_count": 5,
        "total": 50,
        "total_pages": 10
    },
    "params": [],
    "url": "https://example.com/api/objects/1/children"
}