Add products via API

[Chris Schalenborgh]

Hi all,

I'm still new to HippoCMS but need to figure out a couple of questions before we actually adapt HippoCMS.
I was wondering if it's possible too add products to HippoCMS via the API?
Are there any examples online of this API? We're mainly using PHP in our other applications.

Thanks,
Chris

[Jeroen Reijn]

Hi and welcome!

I have a couple of questions first:

- With 'products' you refer to the product document type shown in our Hippo Go Green demo?

- With API I guess you mean the REST like API we have in the demo?

If both questions are answered with yes then my answer to your question would also be yes.

The Hippo delivery tier (HST) allows you to expose JAX-RS based API endpoints [1]. Some examples can be found in the online demo or Hippo Go Green project as we call it ourselves. I'm not sure if there is a live demo of adding products through the API, but we have code available which you can checkout and learn from once you go into this direction.

To give some further details or background. There are two ways of exposing such a REST API like endpoint.

1. Via a Content based JAX-RS pipeline, which follows a hippo document type based approach to expose content. I'm not sure if we have a piece of code available which demonstrates this.

2. Via a 'plain' based JAX-RS pipeline, which allows you to have full control over the way the API endpoint interacts with your PHP application. An piece of example code for adding products can be found in our public SVN [2].

I hope this answers your questions and do let us me know if you have any other questions!

[1] http://www.onehippo.org/library/concepts/rest/restful-jax-rs-component-support-in-hst-2.html

[2] http://svn.onehippo.org/repos/hippo/hippo-cms7/testsuite/tags/hippo-testsuite-1.06.02/components/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/hst/demo/jaxrs/services/ProductPlainResource.java

Cheers,

Jeroen

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[Chris Schalenborgh]

Hi Jeroen,

Bedankt voor de uitleg.

Is het mogelijk om ons een PHP voorbeeld te sturen van zo’n restful API call? Liefst met JSON..

Bedankt

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[Jeroen Reijn]

Hi Chris,

thanks for your answer. Do keep in mind that the main language on this list is english, so other people can follow along. I'm by no means an expert in PHP (I've used it at least 10 years ago), but a quick google resulted in this nice example on SO.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9802788/call-a-rest-api-in-php

To experiment with a piece of JSON you could use to output and URL generated in our public demo:

See http://www.demo.onehippo.com/rest/browser for some examples

This page shows you some example calls to do a GET request to get a product or get a list of products. 

To be able to add products you will need to create your own custom JAX-RS endpoint (which should be in Java).

I hope this helps for now.

Jeroen