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Taking Advantage of the SharePoint 2013 REST API

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The

SharePoint

Cowboy

Patterns

&

Practices

Eric Shupps

www.sharepointcowboy.com eshupps@binarywave.com facebook.com/sharepointcowboy @eshupps

Introduction

Basic

Operations

JavaScript

Endpoints

Advanced

Methods

Windows 8

INTRODUCTION

HTTP-based web service architecture that

uses nouns and verbs to define operations

Noun: “Items”

Verbs: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE

OData provides metadata, object typing and

query semantics for underlying data

structure (WCF data services)

/items(0)

Client Object Model service (client.svc)

processes queries, interacts with server OM,

returns formatted response (JSON, XML)

/items/GetByTitle(‘foo’)

Clien

t.sv

c

Server

OM

Content

DBREAD

CREATE

UPDATE

DELETE

POST

GET

PUT, MERGE, DELETE

http://contoso/_api/items/GetById(1)?$select=Title,ID

Location Service Resource Path Query Options

Local

Current

Context

Request

Digest

Remote

OAuth

Access

Token

Cross

Domain

Request

Executor

SP.WebProxy

HTTP

WebRequest

Context

Info

Cross

Domain

ENDPOINTS

Site Web PublishingUser

Profiles

Webs

Features

Event

Receivers

Users

Profiles

Activity

Lists

Items

Pages

Variations

Navigation

Query Results

Suggestions

Search Taxonomy

Managed

Metadata

BASIC OPERATIONS

• SP.RequestExecutor

• accept: "application/json;odata=verbose"

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/sites/features/GetById(guid’<value>’)

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/sites/eventreceivers

View Event Receivers

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/web/webinfos/add{ 'd' :{

'parameters': { '__metadata': {'type': 'SP.WebInfoCreationInformation' }, 'Url': 'RestSubWeb', 'Title': 'RestSubWeb', 'Description': 'rest created web','Language':1033,'WebTemplate':'sts','UseUniquePermissions':false}

}}

Create a Site

Get Feature

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/lists

Get All Lists

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/lists/GetByTitle(‘Shared Documents’)

Get List

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/lists/GetByTitle(‘Shared Documents’)/items/GetById(0)

Get List Item

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/lists/GetByTitle(‘Shared Documents’)/items/GetById(1)?$select=Title,ID

Get List Item with Specific Properties

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/search/query?queryText=‘Value’

Simple Term

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/search/query?queryText=‘PreferredName:Robert Smith’

Item Property

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/search/suggest?queryText=‘quarterly sales’

Suggestions

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/social.following/followed

Get Followed Users

http://<siteCollection>/<site>/_api/social.following/my/followeddocumentsuri

Get Followed Documents

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/sp.userprofiles.peoplemanager/getmysuggestions

Get Suggestions

http://<siteCollection>/<site>/_api/sp.userprofiles.peoplemanager/getpeoplefollowedby(accountName=@v)?@v='domain\user'

Get Followers

ADVANCED METHODS

http://<site>/_api/Web/Lists(guid’<value>′)/Items(1)/FieldValuesAsHtml

HTML Values

http://<site>/_api/web/lists/getbytitle(‘Products’)/items()/?$select=Title,Price,effectivebasepermissions

Get Permissions

http://<site>/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('Products')/items()?$select=Title,Price,Supplier_/Title&$expand=Supplier_/Title

Join

http://<site>/_api/web/lists/getbytitle(‘Products’)/items/?$filter=Price gt 30000

Filter with Comparison

http://<site>/_api/web/lists/getbytitle(‘Products’)/items()?$select=Title,Price,Supplier_/Title&$expand=Supplier_/Title&$filter=Supplier_/Title eq ‘Acme’

Join with Filter

http://<site collection>/<site>/_api/web/lists('<guid>')/items$top=10

Top ‘N’ Results

url: http://site url/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle(‘Test')/itemsmethod: POSTbody: { '__metadata': { 'type': 'SP.Data.TestListItem' }, 'Title': 'Test'}headers:Authorization = "Bearer " + accessTokenX-RequestDigest = form digest valueaccept: "application/json;odata=verbose"content-type: "application/json;odata=verbose"content-length:1024

Create a List Item

url: http://site url/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle(‘Test')/items(item id)method: POSTbody: { '__metadata': { 'type': 'SP.Data.TestListItem' }, 'Title': 'TestUpdated'}headers:Authorization = "Bearer " + accessTokenX-RequestDigest = form digest value“IF-MATCH”: etag or “*”“X-HTTP-Method”:”MERGE”,accept: "application/json;odata=verbose"content-type: "application/json;odata=verbose"content-length:1024

Edit a List Item

• Used to prevent replay attacks

• Updates will fail without digest value

• Local

• $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val()

• Remote

• POST to /_api/contextinfo

Description Link

Programming Using the SharePoint 2013 REST Service http://bit.ly/TUwC9N

OData URI Conventions http://bit.ly/Ytgdz4

Using the SharePoint 2013 REST Service http://bit.ly/YPHif5

SharePoint 2013 Search REST API http://bit.ly/ZqzOuM

Configuring SharePoint 2013 Search REST for Anonymous Users http://bit.ly/152vFoy

SharePoint 2013 REST TypeScript Library http://sprestts.codeplex.com