Content API

An abstract content manager, which features:

• REST API for storage and retrieval of elements as JSON [1][2].
• Renders elements using json-template [3].
• Persistence is based on key-value data stores [4].
• Encoding is UTF-8.
• Apache License 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

[1] JSON: http://www.json.org/

[2] Uses JSON.simple: http://code.google.com/p/json-simple/

[3] JSON Template; http://code.google.com/p/json-template/

[4] Default data stores implemented as key-value tables in H2, MySQL

Render an element

Using an element's default template:

GET /content/render/:element

Or using a specific template:

GET /content/render/:element/:template

Content-Type is based on "Accept" header:

Accept: text/html => Content-Type: text/html
Accept: application/json => Content-Type: application/json
...

Possible exceptions:

404 Not found
400 Bad request
500 Internal server error

Create an element

POST /content/element/:id
Content: JSON

Create a template

POST /content/template/:id
Content: json-template

Configure a default template for an element

POST /content/view/:element/:template

Update:

PUT /content/view/:element/:template

Element operations

PUT     /content/element/:id
DELETE  /content/element/:id
GET     /content/element/:id

Template operations

PUT     /content/template/:id
DELETE  /content/template/:id
GET     /content/template/:id

Roadmap

• JSONP
• Auth & Auth
• Caching
• Last-Modified, Expires
• GAE Datastore Implementation
• Template validation
• Sets
• UTF-8 validation
• Better JSON valitation handling
• Schemas
• 100% Coverage