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plone.restapi is a RESTful hypermedia API for Plone.

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Introduction

plone.restapi is a RESTful hypermedia API for Plone.

RESTful Hypermedia API

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It is a software architectural principle to create loosely coupled web APIs.

Most web APIs have a tight coupling between client and server. This makes them brittle and hard to change over time. It requires them not only to fully document every small detail of the API, but also write a client implementation that follows that specification 100% and breaks as soon as you change any detail.

A hypermedia API just provides an entry point to the API that contains hyperlinks the clients can follow. Just like a human user of a regular website, that knows the initial URL of a website and then follows hyperlinks to navigate through the site. This has the advantage that the client just needs to understand how to detect and follow links. The URL and other details of the API can change without breaking the client.

Documentation

http://plonerestapi.readthedocs.org

Roadmap

https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/milestones

Live Demo

Heroku live demo:: http://stormy-headland-44390.herokuapp.com/Plone/

Design Decisions

  • A truly RESTful API (Hypermedia / HATEOAS / Linked-data)

  • JSON is the main target formt, support other formats (HTML, XML) later

  • Use HTTP headers (to set format and versioning, also provide URL-based option to make it easier for people to try it out)

  • No versioning, version in the HTTP header can be added later

  • Field names just map over (we will not try to clean up attributes or enforce naming standards like pep8 (e.g. isPrincipiaFoldish -> is_folderish)

Software Quality

  • 100% Test Coverage

  • 100% PEP8 compliant

Further Reading

Standards

License

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.

Contributors

Note: place names and roles of the people who contribute to this package

in this file, one to a line, like so:

  • Timo Stollenwerk, Original Author

  • Thomas Buchberger

  • Lukas Graf

  • Víctor Fernández de Alba

  • Paul Roeland

  • Mikel Larreategi

Changelog

1.0a3 (2016-09-27)

New Features:

  • Add @users endpoint. [timo]

Bugfixes:

  • Fix bug where disabling the “Use Keyring” flag wasn’t persisted in jwt_auth plugin. [lgraf]

1.0a2 (2016-08-20)

New Features:

  • Implements navigation and breadcrumbs components [ebrehault]

  • Add widget and support for RichText field in @types component. [ebrehault]

  • Add fieldsets in @types [ebrehault]

Bugfixes:

  • Disable automatic CSRF protection for @login and @login-renew endpoints: If persisting tokens server-side is enabled, those requests need to be allowed to cause DB writes. [lgraf]

  • Documentation: Fixed parameter ‘data’ to JSON format in JWT Authentication documentation [lccruz]

  • Tests: Fail tests on uncommitted changes to docs/source/_json/ [lgraf]

  • Tests: Use freezegun to freeze hard to control timestamps in response dumps used for documentation. [lgraf]

  • Tests: Limit available languages to a small set to avoid excessive language lists in response dumps used for documentation. [lgraf]

1.0a1 (2016-07-14)

  • Initial release. [timo,buchi,lukasgraf,et al.]

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