Content Objects

Once a Content Type has been defined in the system - the user can create Content Objects of that Content Type. This is done either directly through the API or via the convenient Content Entry tools provided within the Content Management Platform.

Authoring content through the API

The supporting endpoints of a given Content Type allow the user to perform basic REST operations

For a Content Type defined according to the example described above, a very simple POST payload can be sent to the supporting endpoint to create a new Content Object:

{
  "id": "123123123",
  "title": "New object",
  "postContent": "This will be the new <b>content</b>"
}

Full curl request:

curl -X POST "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts" -H "accept: */*" -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR API TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"id\":\"123123123\",\"title\":\"New object\",\"postContent\":\"This will be the new <b>content</b>\"}"

which should result in a 200 server response containing the details of the created object:

If a property is required in the Content Type Definition of the object being added, API will respond with 400 response and will list validation errors in the response body.

For example for request with payload with the missing title:

{
  "id": "123123123",
  "postContent": "This will be the new <b>content</b>"
}

The server will respond with:

{
  "title": [
    "The property title is required"
  ]
}

If a property should be unique, API will respond with 400 response and will list validation errors in the response body, exactly like with required fields.

If you would post the same object as in the first example the server will response with:

{
  "title": [
    "This value is already used"
  ],
  "id": [
    "This value is already used"
  ]
}

Batch content upload

There is a way to add up to 100 of Content Objects at once. It is possible by using /batch endpoint (in our example the URL would be https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts/batch). It can be only insert or insert or update operation. To use insert or update you need to set updateExisting to true in the query.

All objects must meet the same conditions as when adding a single object. The only difference is an array of objects in the request body instead of one object.

Updating one blog post and adding one new:

Example

curl 'https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogpost/batch?updateExisting=true' -H 'accept: application/json' -H 'X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR_API_TOKEN' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary '[{"id":"123123123","title":"New object","postContent":"This will be the new <b>content</b>"},{"id":"123123124","title":"New object 2","postContent":"This will be the brand new <b>content</b>"}]'

response (code: 200):

{
    "batch_total_count": 2,
    "batch_success_count": 2,
    "batch_error_count": 0,
    "errors": []
}

Trying updating one blog post and adding one new with wrong data:

Example

curl 'https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogpost/batch?updateExisting=true' -H 'accept: application/json' -H 'X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR_API_TOKEN' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary '[{"id":"123123123","title":"New object"},{"id":"123123124","title":"New object 2","postContent":"This will be the brand new <b>content</b>"}]'

response (code: 400):

{
    "batch_total_count": 2,
    "batch_success_count": 1,
    "batch_error_count": 1,
    "errors": [
      {
        "id": "123123123",
        "errors": {
          "postContent": [
            "The property postContent is required"
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
}

Trying updating one blog post and adding one new with duplicated id:

Example

curl 'https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogpost/batch?updateExisting=true' -H 'accept: application/json' -H 'X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR_API_TOKEN' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary '[{"id":"123123123","title":"New object","content": "This will be the new <b>content</b>"},{"id":"123123123","title":"New object 2","postContent":"This will be the brand new <b>content</b>"}]'

response (code: 400):

{
  "data": [
    "There are duplications in object data, key: id"
  ]
}

Response parameters:

Parameter	Description
batch_total_count	number of elements sent in the request, present when there are no duplications in data
batch_success_count	number of correct elements sent in the request, present when there are no duplications in data
batch_error_count	number of incorrect elements sent in the request, present when there are no duplications in data
errors	array of errors in the elements, errors are objects containing the id of the object and list of errors, present when there are no duplications in data
data	present only when there are duplications in data, listing keys containing duplications (see example above)

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Last update: February 1, 2021

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