Reading custom modules using REST API - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 27-May-2016 00:00

Hi everyone,

Can someone explain to me How can I get the dynamic module names using the available rest API or the usage of

GET /restapi/sitefinity/related-data/data-types.

Thanks,
Balu

Posted by Community Admin on 31-May-2016 00:00

Hi,

Could you please elaborate on what you are trying to achieve in the end ?

You can also use the ContentTypeService.svc directly,

eg.

http://<yourhost>:<yourport>/Sitefinity/Services/DynamicModules/ContentTypeService.svc/

which returns, amongst others, the ContentTypeTitle.

Additional doc links:

Create a RESTful WCF service to retrieve titles of news items

http://docs.sitefinity.com/tutorial-create-a-restful-wcf-service-to-retrieve-titles-of-news-items

Related data API

http://docs.sitefinity.com/for-developers-related-data-api

Regards,
Dimitri Cools
Telerik

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Posted by Community Admin on 02-Jun-2016 00:00

Hi Dimitri,

Thank you. I am trying to read the all dynamic modules which are available in Sitefinity using angular JS.
I was using localhost:60876/.../data-types to get the all modules which are available.
Once I hit the above URL, I am getting a web page as a response and a hyper link(view json datasource). On clicking hyperlink, it is giving JSON response.

Please find the attached snapshot which I get after hitting the response.

Sample JSON Response:

["ClrType":"Telerik.Sitefinity.News.Model.NewsItem","Name":"News","Providers":["Name":"OpenAccessDataProvider","Title":"Default News"],"ClrType":"Telerik.Sitefinity.Blogs.Model.BlogPost","Name":"Blog Posts","Providers":["Name":"OpenAccessDataProvider","Title":"Default Blogs"],"ClrType":"Telerik.Sitefinity.Events.Model.Event","Name":"Events","Providers":["Name":"OpenAccessDataProvider","Title":"Default Events"],"ClrType":"Telerik.Sitefinity.Pages.Model.PageNode","Name":"Pages","ParentName":"Page","Providers":["Name":"OpenAccessDataProvider","Title":"OpenAccessDataProvider"],"ClrType":"Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.Bala.Balu","Name":"BAlus (Bala)","ParentName":"Bala","Providers":["Name":"OpenAccessProvider","Title":"Default"],"ClrType":"Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.sf_ec_prdct_book","Name":"Book","Providers":["Name":"OpenAccessDataProvider","Title":"Default Ecommerce products"],"ClrType":"Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.sf_ec_prdct_generalproduct","Name":"General product","Providers":["Name":"OpenAccessDataProvider","Title":"Default Ecommerce products"],"ClrType":"Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.sf_ec_prdct_software","Name":"Software","Providers":["Name":"OpenAccessDataProvider","Title":"Default Ecommerce products"],"ClrType":"Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.sf_ec_prdct_song","Name":"Song","Providers":["Name":"OpenAccessDataProvider","Title":"Default Ecommerce products"]]

Please help me how to get the JSON as a response instead of WebPage.

Posted by Community Admin on 03-Jun-2016 00:00

Hi,

In order to get list of all methods that a service exposes, you can use a web browser that supports XML response, such as IE or Firefox, and open the following address of a web service:
yourserver/.../help

eg.
IContentTypeService: GetModules
Gets all the content types for the given provider. The results are returned in JSON format.
(http://<host>:<port>/Sitefinity/Services/DynamicModules/ContentTypeService.svc/help/GetModules/response/example)

Regards,
Dimitri Cools
Telerik

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