Help! - Content search that returns partial content items

[John Cross]

Hello!

I know this is probably a very basic question but for the life of me I can't figure it out...

I want to do a content search via the rest api to get all items of the content type 'Press Release'. This I can do easy enough, but it returns the entire content item for each and I actually only need the Publish Date field.

So, how do I limit the content search to only return certain fields?

Here is the URL I am using which returns the full content items:

http://localhost:8080/api/content/type/xml/query/+contentType:PressRelease%20+deleted:false%20+live:true

What does it need to change to?

Thanks!

John

[Jason Tesser]

The rest api will return all fields. Of course u can just display what you want.

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[John Cross]

My concern here is the overhead - I'm returning all fields for 200 or so articles just to get a list of dates...

[Chris Falzone]

Not supported currently, but I would second that this would be a nice a improvement to the REST APIs in dotCMS. 

I would say that if the overhead is too much and causing issues for you, the solution would be to create your own REST Service as a plugin to return just what you need.  

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[Nathan Keiter]

You could easily write your own RESTful api to return only the fields specified.

 

Add a URL param /include-fields/Article.publishDate

 

Intercept that in the options and then modify the output accordingly.

 

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[Nathan Keiter]

It literally only took about 15 minutes. J You’ll need at least 3.x to use the built-in REST core libraries.

 

4.0.1 -> https://github.com/nkeiter/generic-dotCMS-plugin-code-examples/tree/master/dotcms4.0.1/osgi/org.example.nkeiter.contentlet.rest.light

 

3.5.1 -> https://github.com/nkeiter/generic-dotCMS-plugin-code-examples/tree/master/dotcms3.5.1/osgi/org.example.nkeiter.contentlet.rest.light

 

Where the magic happens -> https://github.com/nkeiter/generic-dotCMS-plugin-code-examples/blob/master/dotcms4.0.1/osgi/org.example.nkeiter.contentlet.rest.light/src/main/java/org/example/nkeiter/contentlet/rest/light/service/ContentletRestServiceLight.java#L66-L69

 

4.0.1 Jar –> https://github.com/nkeiter/generic-dotCMS-plugin-code-examples/tree/master/dotcms4.0.1/osgi/org.example.nkeiter.contentlet.rest.light/build/libs

 

3.5.1 Jar -> https://github.com/nkeiter/generic-dotCMS-plugin-code-examples/tree/master/dotcms3.5.1/osgi/org.example.nkeiter.contentlet.rest.light/build/libs

 

Keep in mind you might have to be logged in (as usual) depending on Content Type permissions.

 

Tested using Advanced REST client (Chrome app)

 

 

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[Nathan Keiter]

Actually, it might work on 2.x now.  I had to get a little creative with it and I don’t have an environment to test this in.  You’ll probably have to update your exported packages list in the OSGI admin panel to get this to work.

 

2.5.4 -> https://github.com/nkeiter/generic-dotCMS-plugin-code-examples/tree/master/dotcms2.5.4/osgi/org.example.nkeiter.contentlet.rest.light

 

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[John Cross]

Thanks all!

This has been very useful. I'm surprised that it doesn't come out of the box with dotCMS - I'll put it to them as a future enhancement...

John