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Listing content

Once a Content Type has been defined in the system - the user can list 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.

Note

You can use your Application Read Only API KEY to perform this action or User API KEY scoped to accept read on the Content Type you wish to list. Read more about API keys and scoped API keys.

Listing content through the API

For a Content Type defined according to the create Content Type example, a very simple GET request can be sent to the supporting endpoint https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/{name} (where name is the name of the content type definition) to get Content Objects.

Example

CURLC# + RestasharpGo + NativeJava + OkhttpJava + UnirestNode + RequestPHP + CURL

curl --location --request GET "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%7D" \
--header "X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR_API_KEY" \
--header "accept: application/json"

var client = new RestClient("https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%7D");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

    url := "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%7D"

    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

    req.Header.Add("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY")

    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

    defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

    fmt.Println(res)
    fmt.Println(string(body))

}

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .url("https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%7D")
    .get()
    .addHeader("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%7D")
    .header("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .asString();

const request = require('request');

const options = {
    method: 'GET',
    url: 'https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts',
    qs: {
        page: '1',
        limit: '20',
        order_by: 'internal.createdAt',
        order_direction: 'asc',
        hydrate: '0',
        filters: '{}'
    },
    headers: {'X-AUTH-TOKEN': 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
};

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
    if (error) throw new Error(error);

    console.log(body);
});

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%7D",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
            "X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR_API_KEY",
        ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
    echo $response;
}

Request parameters

Parameter	Description
limit	Number of objects on page, default 20
page	Number of the requested page, 1-based, default 1
order_by	What field should the list be ordered by, possible values are based on content type schema
order_direction	Order direction, possible values: asc, desc, default asc
hydrate	If you want to hydrate data sources in the object, you need to set it to 1, it will hydrate one level of data sources in objects, 2 will hydrate deeper objects, and it's the highest level of hydration available in Flotiq API. You can also use this parameter when requesting a single object
filters	Json encoded object containing conditions on which the list of CO should be filtered. The object keys are the name of the parameter (e.g. title). The object value is a filter object with two keys, type describing how the list should be filtered and filter with filter query. Both parameters should be a string; you can filter on every subset of object parameters, including internal parameters (e.g. internal.created_at). Filters must be url encoded. Example filter value: {"title":{"type":"equals","filter":"Hello world!"}}

Filter types

Type	Description
equals	Object parameter must be equal to filter, can be used with string type parameters
notEqual	Object parameter must not be equal to filter, can be used with string type parameters
contains	Object parameter must contain filter, can be used with every type parameters
notContains	Object parameter must not contain filter, can be used with every type parameters
startsWith	Object parameter must start with filter, can be used with string type parameters
endsWith	Object parameter must end with filter, can be used with string type parameters
lessThanOrEqual	Object parameter must be less or equal to filter, can be used with number type parameters
lessThan	Object parameter must be less than a filter, can be used with number type parameters
greaterThanOrEqual	Object parameter must be greater or equal than filter, can be used with number type parameters
greaterThan	Object parameter must be greater than filter, can be used with number type parameters
inRange	Object parameter must be between filter and filter2, it is only filter type that has three keys in filter object, can be used with number type parameters

Example

{
    "title": {
        "type": "equals",
        "filter": "New object"
    },
    "postContent": {
        "type": "contains",
        "filter": "content"
    }
}

CURLC# + RestasharpGo + NativeJava + OkhttpJava + UnirestNode + RequestPHP + CURL

curl -X GET "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%22title%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22equals%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22New%20object%22%7D%2C%22postContent%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22contains%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22content%22%7D%7D" -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR_API_KEY" -H "accept: application/json"

var client = new RestClient("https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%22title%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22equals%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22New%20object%22%7D%2C%22postContent%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22contains%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22content%22%7D%7D");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

    url := "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%22title%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22equals%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22New%20object%22%7D%2C%22postContent%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22contains%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22content%22%7D%7D"

    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

    req.Header.Add("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY")

    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

    defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

    fmt.Println(res)
    fmt.Println(string(body))

}

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .url("https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%22title%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22equals%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22New%20object%22%7D%2C%22postContent%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22contains%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22content%22%7D%7D")
    .get()
    .addHeader("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%22title%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22equals%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22New%20object%22%7D%2C%22postContent%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22contains%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22content%22%7D%7D")
    .header("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .asString();

const request = require('request');

const options = {
    method: 'GET',
    url: 'https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts',
    qs: {
        page: '1',
        limit: '20',
        order_by: 'internal.createdAt',
        order_direction: 'asc',
        hydrate: '0',
        filters: '{"title":{"type":"equals","filter":"New object"},"postContent":{"type":"contains","filter":"content"}}'
    },
    headers: {'X-AUTH-TOKEN': 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
};

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
    if (error) throw new Error(error);

    console.log(body);
});

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/blogposts?page=1&limit=20&order_by=internal.createdAt&order_direction=asc&hydrate=0&filters=%7B%22title%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22equals%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22New%20object%22%7D%2C%22postContent%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22contains%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22content%22%7D%7D",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
            "X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR_API_KEY",
        ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
    echo $response;
}

Responses

200 OK400 Validation error401 Unauthorized404 Not found

Returned when the request was correctly formatted

{
  "total_count": 1,
  "total_pages": 1,
  "current_page": 1,
  "count": 1,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "blogposts-456712",
        "internal": {
            "contentType": "blogposts",
            "createdAt": "2021-04-09T13:30:48+00:00",
            "updatedAt": "2021-04-09T13:30:48+00:00",
            "deletedAt": ""
        },
        "title": "New object",
        "postContent": "This will be the new <b>content</b>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

total_count is the number of Content Objects in the database (if any filters are present, it's a number of filtered Content Objects).

total_pages is the number of pages available to the user.

current_page is the currently returned page.

count number of elements in data key; can't be more than limit set in request (default 20).

data list of Content Objects, every object contains all data.

Returned when data has not been correct, and the object was not saved

{
    "filters": [
        "Malformed filters json - Syntax error"
    ]
}

Returned when API key was missing or incorrect

{
    "code": 401,
    "massage": "Unauthorized"
}

Returned when content type definition wasn't found

{
    "code": 404,
    "massage": "Not found"
}

Possible validation errors

Error	Description
Malformed filters json - Syntax error	Send when filters are not correctly json encoded

Filtering by relation

For example, "Show products in category category-1" is possible using JsonPath standard. You have to care about encoding url params. For example:

1. Using JsonPath, product category path is categories[*].dataUrl
2. Expected value is /api/v1/content/categories/category-1
3. Raw query: GET /api/v1/content/products?filters={"categories[*].dataUrl":{"type":"contains","filter":"/api/v1/content/categories/category-1"}}
4. Encoded query: GET /api/v1/content/products?filters=%7B%22categories%5B%2A%5D.dataUrl%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22equals%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%22%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fcontent%2Fcategories%2Fcategory-1%22%7D%7D

Only contains and notContains type filters can be used with filtering by relation.

Hydrating objects

If you wish to receive underlying objects attached to the object you are retrieving, you need to send a request with query parameter hydrate set to 1, if hydrated objects have other objects attached that you want to get access to, you can set hydrate to 2.

Note

hydrate=2 is the highest level of hydration available in Flotiq API.

Below we show how you can, while fetching a product, display the name of its category, i.e. product -> category -> name - this is an ideal case for hydration.

Example

CURLC# + RestasharpGo + NativeJava + OkhttpJava + UnirestNode + RequestPHP + CURL

curl -X GET "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/product?hydrate=1" -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR_API_KEY" -H "accept: application/json"

var client = new RestClient("https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/product?hydrate=1");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

    url := "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/product?hydrate=1"

    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

    req.Header.Add("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY")

    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

    defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

    fmt.Println(res)
    fmt.Println(string(body))

}

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .url("https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/product?hydrate=1")
    .get()
    .addHeader("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/product?hydrate=1")
    .header("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .asString();

const request = require('request');

const options = {
    method: 'DELETE',
    url: 'https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/product',
    qs: {
        page: '1',
        limit: '20',
        order_by: 'internal.createdAt',
        order_direction: 'asc',
        hydrate: '1',
        filters: '{}'
    },
    headers: {'X-AUTH-TOKEN': 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
};

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
    if (error) throw new Error(error);

    console.log(body);
});

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/content/product?hydrate=1",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
            "X-AUTH-TOKEN: YOUR_API_KEY",
        ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
    echo $response;
}

Response

Hydration enabledHydration disabled

{
    "data": [{
        "id": "product-1",
        "name": "Wild fruit",
        "slug": "wild-fruit",
        "price": 12,
        "internal": {...},
        "description": "<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc interdum erat vitae aliquet euismod. Curabitur hendrerit, eros sed iaculis aliquam, ante magna placerat ante, at fermentum augue nulla non justo. Curabitur arcu sem, venenatis eget lobortis a, aliquet nec nunc. Nam tristique, est ac dictum iaculis, mauris nunc pellentesque lacus, in pulvinar enim turpis in dolor. Morbi porta, mi vitae euismod volutpat, nisi sem mollis ligula, nec faucibus erat est vitae ante. Maecenas fringilla sodales tortor a varius. Fusce ipsum lorem, pharetra id tempus non, luctus in elit.</p>\n\n<p>Aliquam lectus arcu, accumsan quis libero vel, placerat faucibus orci. Aenean vitae mattis turpis, id egestas arcu. Integer non purus dui.</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Etiam porttitor massa id velit semper, vitae posuere leo egestas.</li>\n\t<li>Nunc congue, quam vestibulum cursus luctus, turpis sem feugiat odio, eu placerat ex tellus vitae elit.</li>\n\t<li>Phasellus sodales purus sed auctor feugiat. Morbi varius pretium ligula id semper. In ac scelerisque erat.</li>\n\t<li>Quisque a metus ut nibh finibus hendrerit.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Nam in quam et libero mollis venenatis viverra a odio. Aenean in lacus id libero pretium scelerisque ac cursus est. Quisque egestas leo ut ex sollicitudin, at porta nunc tincidunt. Nulla posuere, enim eu commodo gravida, orci erat egestas lorem, sit amet imperdiet lectus massa quis libero. Maecenas a hendrerit nunc. Cras eu quam metus. Etiam volutpat, leo nec faucibus sollicitudin, sapien lacus bibendum lorem, maximus porttitor ligula tortor a orci. Aenean non diam ornare, condimentum nisi sed, viverra justo. Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Cras commodo efficitur metus, in interdum purus. Cras sed risus eget arcu dapibus consequat. Aenean quis aliquam dia.</p>\n",
        "productImage": [{
            "id": "_media-b35676ac-94f5-4200-9e16-eef40b649352",
            "url": "/image/0x0/_media-b35676ac-94f5-4200-9e16-eef40b649352.jpg",
            "size": 574633,
            "type": "image",
            "width": 1920,
            "height": 1275,
            "source": "disk",
            "fileName": "_media-5e8d9bf8e731d.jpg",
            "internal": {...},
            "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
            "extension": "jpg",
            "externalId": ""
        }],
        "productGallery": [{
            "id": "_media-b35676ac-94f5-4200-9e16-eef40b649352",
            "url": "/image/0x0/_media-b35676ac-94f5-4200-9e16-eef40b649352.jpg",
            "size": 574633,
            "type": "image",
            "width": 1920,
            "height": 1275,
            "source": "disk",
            "fileName": "_media-5e8d9bf8e731d.jpg",
            "internal": {...},
            "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
            "extension": "jpg",
            "externalId": ""
        }]
    }]
}

{
    "data": [{
        "id": "product-1",
        "name": "Wild fruit",
        "slug": "wild-fruit",
        "price": 12,
        "internal": {...},
        "description": "<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc interdum erat vitae aliquet euismod. Curabitur hendrerit, eros sed iaculis aliquam, ante magna placerat ante, at fermentum augue nulla non justo. Curabitur arcu sem, venenatis eget lobortis a, aliquet nec nunc. Nam tristique, est ac dictum iaculis, mauris nunc pellentesque lacus, in pulvinar enim turpis in dolor. Morbi porta, mi vitae euismod volutpat, nisi sem mollis ligula, nec faucibus erat est vitae ante. Maecenas fringilla sodales tortor a varius. Fusce ipsum lorem, pharetra id tempus non, luctus in elit.</p>\n\n<p>Aliquam lectus arcu, accumsan quis libero vel, placerat faucibus orci. Aenean vitae mattis turpis, id egestas arcu. Integer non purus dui.</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Etiam porttitor massa id velit semper, vitae posuere leo egestas.</li>\n\t<li>Nunc congue, quam vestibulum cursus luctus, turpis sem feugiat odio, eu placerat ex tellus vitae elit.</li>\n\t<li>Phasellus sodales purus sed auctor feugiat. Morbi varius pretium ligula id semper. In ac scelerisque erat.</li>\n\t<li>Quisque a metus ut nibh finibus hendrerit.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Nam in quam et libero mollis venenatis viverra a odio. Aenean in lacus id libero pretium scelerisque ac cursus est. Quisque egestas leo ut ex sollicitudin, at porta nunc tincidunt. Nulla posuere, enim eu commodo gravida, orci erat egestas lorem, sit amet imperdiet lectus massa quis libero. Maecenas a hendrerit nunc. Cras eu quam metus. Etiam volutpat, leo nec faucibus sollicitudin, sapien lacus bibendum lorem, maximus porttitor ligula tortor a orci. Aenean non diam ornare, condimentum nisi sed, viverra justo. Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Cras commodo efficitur metus, in interdum purus. Cras sed risus eget arcu dapibus consequat. Aenean quis aliquam dia.</p>\n",
        "productImage": [{
            "type": "internal",
            "dataUrl": "/api/v1/content/_media/_media-b35676ac-94f5-4200-9e16-eef40b649352"
        }],
        "productGallery": [{
            "type": "internal",
            "dataUrl": "/api/v1/content/_media/_media-b35676ac-94f5-4200-9e16-eef40b649352"
        }]
    }]
}

As you can see after adding hydrate instead of {dataUrl: ...} we get a full object, so we can immediately show the values ​​without additional requests.

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Last update: March 8, 2023

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