Headless WebAPIs in 2sxc

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Using a CMS like 2sxc as Headless means that the data can be used elsewhere both for showing and editing as needed. 2sxc provides 3 different WebAPIs for this:

  1. Built-in Content WebAPIs which are REST endpoints for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations
  2. Built-in Query WebAPIs which are read-only APIs to query data using VisualQuery
  3. Custom C# WebAPI controllers which you create to do anything you want

We always recommend that you first experiment with the tutorials before you do anything else:

Discover More in the Web API Tutorials

We have an rich series of Web API tutorials. You should really check them out 👍.

Fine-Tune Serialization of Headless Data

If you use Queries you can now fine-tune how the data will be serialized. Read more about this.

Read Also

  1. 2sxc Web API
  2. Various blogs posted on this topic (just google it)

History

  1. Introduced Content-REST API in 2sxc 5.x
  2. More added in v7.1
  3. Added in-admin help to access it in 11.10