Vanilla REST services

ddumont

Are there currently any good docs on them? (Is this it, or do you have more: http://vanillaforums.org/docs/api)

Do you have js libraries to interface with them?

Todd

All of our controller methods can be obtained as a rest request. All you do is append .json or .xml to the end of the method name.

Let's look at this discussion as an example. The url is http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/17525/vanilla-rest-services.

This maps to the DiscussionController->Index(...) method with a discussion ID of 17525. So here is the rest request for the method:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion.json/17525/vanilla-rest-services.
or
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/index.json/17525/vanilla-rest-services.

You can also look at the controller method and pass the named arguments in as query-string parameters which I recommend, like this:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion.json?discussionid=17525

While clicking these links, you may see that your browser prompts you to download. This is because we send back the correct content type of application/json. I recommend installing the Firefox extension called JSON view that will allow you to view the json more easily.

Todd

All of our controller methods can be obtained as a rest request. All you do is append .json or .xml to the end of the method name.

Let's look at this discussion as an example. The url is http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/17525/vanilla-rest-services.

This maps to the DiscussionController->Index(...) method with a discussion ID of 17525. So here is the rest request for the method:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion.json/17525/vanilla-rest-services.
or
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/index.json/17525/vanilla-rest-services.

You can also look at the controller method and pass the named arguments in as query-string parameters which I recommend, like this:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion.json?discussionid=17525

While clicking these links, you may see that your browser prompts you to download. This is because we send back the correct content type of application/json. I recommend installing the Firefox extension called JSON view that will allow you to view the json more easily.

ddumont

Ahh this clears up things quite a bit, thanks!