Get Item

Get an Item from the content store.

This API is used to get pages, components and folders. It returns the content and other metadata such as url, descriptorUrl, folder flag, and extra properties

Resource Information

This service uses the tomcat application on port 8080 by default. To see a list of default ports click here

The context for this API is /.

HTTP Verb
GET
URL
/api/1/site/content_store/item
Response Formats
JSON, XML

Parameters

Name
Type
Required
Description
url
String
✓
The item’s url (e.g /site/website/index.xml)

Response Elements

For successful requests, an HTTP 200 response is sent back with the following elements returned by the service:

Name
Description
name
Name of item being retrieved (e.g. index.xml
url
The item’s URL (e.g /site/website/index.xml)
descriptorUrl
The item’s descriptor URL (e.g. for a folder: /site/website.meta.xml,
for a page: /site/website/index.xml)
descriptorDom
Contains the content of item being retrieved (DOM of xml)
properties
Contains additional properties that are generated by an ItemProcessor
folder
Indicates whether the item is a folder (true or false)

Example

Page/Component

The example below gets the content of the home page of a site created using the Website Editorial blueprint

Request

GET .../api/1/site/content_store/item.json?url=/site/website/index.xml

Response without additional properties generated by an ItemProcessor

Status 200 OK

 1{
 2  "name": "index.xml",
 3  "url": "/site/website/index.xml",
 4  "descriptorUrl": "/site/website/index.xml",
 5  "descriptorDom": {
 6    "page": {
 7      "content-type": "/page/home",
 8      "display-template": "/templates/web/pages/home.ftl",
 9      "merge-strategy": "inherit-levels",
10      "placeInNav": "false",
11      "file-name": "index.xml",
12      "objectGroupId": "8d7f",
13      "objectId": "8d7f21fa-5e09-00aa-8340-853b7db302da",
14      "folder-name": null,
15      "header": {
16        "item": {
17          "key": "/site/components/headers/header.xml",
18          "value": "Header",
19          "include": "/site/components/headers/header.xml",
20          "disableFlattening": "false"
21        }
22      },
23      "createdDate": "1/31/2017 16:18:14",
24      "createdDate_dt": "1/31/2017 16:18:14",
25      "lastModifiedDate": "5/18/2017 15:52:21",
26      "lastModifiedDate_dt": "5/18/2017 15:52:21",
27      "left-rail": {
28        "item": {
29          "key": "/site/components/left-rails/left-rail-with-latest-articles.xml",
30          "value": "Left Rail with Latest Articles",
31          "include": "/site/components/left-rails/left-rail-with-latest-articles.xml",
32          "disableFlattening": "false"
33        }
34      },
35      "internal-name": "Home",
36      "orderDefault_f": "-1",
37      "title": "Editorial",
38      "hero_text": "<p>Aenean ornare velit lacus, ac varius enim ullamcorper eu. Proin aliquam facilisis ante interdum congue. Integer mollis, nisl amet convallis, porttitor magna ullamcorper, amet egestas mauris. Ut magna finibus nisi nec lacinia. Nam maximus erat id euismod egestas. Pellentesque sapien ac quam. Lorem ipsum dolor sit nullam.</p>",
39      "hero_title": "<h1><span>Hi, I&rsquo;m Editorial</span></h1>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">by HTML5 UP</span></h3>",
40      "features": {
41        "item": [
42          {
43            "value": "Quam lorem ipsum",
44            "key": "/site/components/features/quam-lorem-ipsum.xml",
45            "include": "/site/components/features/quam-lorem-ipsum.xml",
46            "disableFlattening": "false"
47          },
48          {
49            "key": "/site/components/features/sapien-veroeros.xml",
50            "value": "Sapien Veroeros",
51            "include": "/site/components/features/sapien-veroeros.xml",
52            "disableFlattening": "false"
53          }
54        ]
55      },
56      "hero_image": "/static-assets/images/strawberries.jpg",
57      "features_title": "Erat lacinia"
58    }
59  },
60  "properties": null,
61  "folder": false
62}

Response with additional properties generated by an ItemProcessor

Status 200 OK

 1    {
 2      "name": "index.xml",
 3      "url": "/site/website/index.xml",
 4      "descriptorUrl": "/site/website/index.xml",
 5      "descriptorDom": {
 6        "page": {
 7          "content-type": "/page/home",
 8          "display-template": "/templates/web/pages/home.ftl",
 9          "merge-strategy": "inherit-levels",
10          "placeInNav": "false",
11          "file-name": "index.xml",
12          "objectGroupId": "8d7f",
13          "objectId": "8d7f21fa-5e09-00aa-8340-853b7db302da",
14          "folder-name": null,
15          "header": {
16            "item": {
17              "key": "/site/components/headers/header.xml",
18              "value": "Header",
19              "include": "/site/components/headers/header.xml",
20              "disableFlattening": "false"
21            }
22          },
23          "createdDate": "1/31/2017 16:18:14",
24          "createdDate_dt": "1/31/2017 16:18:14",
25          "lastModifiedDate": "5/18/2017 15:52:21",
26          "lastModifiedDate_dt": "5/18/2017 15:52:21",
27          "left-rail": {
28            "item": {
29              "key": "/site/components/left-rails/left-rail-with-latest-articles.xml",
30              "value": "Left Rail with Latest Articles",
31              "include": "/site/components/left-rails/left-rail-with-latest-articles.xml",
32              "disableFlattening": "false"
33            }
34          },
35          "internal-name": "Home",
36          "orderDefault_f": "-1",
37          "title": "Editorial",
38          "hero_text": "<p>Aenean ornare velit lacus, ac varius enim ullamcorper eu. Proin aliquam facilisis ante interdum congue. Integer mollis, nisl amet convallis, porttitor magna ullamcorper, amet egestas mauris. Ut magna finibus nisi nec lacinia. Nam maximus erat id euismod egestas. Pellentesque sapien ac quam. Lorem ipsum dolor sit nullam.</p>",
39          "hero_title": "<h1><span>Hi, I&rsquo;m Editorial</span></h1>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">by HTML5 UP</span></h3>",
40          "features": {
41            "item": [
42              {
43                "value": "Quam lorem ipsum",
44                "key": "/site/components/features/quam-lorem-ipsum.xml",
45                "include": "/site/components/features/quam-lorem-ipsum.xml",
46                "disableFlattening": "false"
47              },
48              {
49                "key": "/site/components/features/sapien-veroeros.xml",
50                "value": "Sapien Veroeros",
51                "include": "/site/components/features/sapien-veroeros.xml",
52                "disableFlattening": "false"
53              }
54            ]
55          },
56          "hero_image": "/static-assets/images/strawberries.jpg",
57          "features_title": "Erat lacinia"
58        }
59      },
60      "properties": {"//page/merge-strategy":"inherit-levels","//page/content-type":"/page/home"},
61      "folder": false
62    }

Folder

The example below gets the home page folder of a site created using the Website Editorial blueprint

Request

GET .../api/1/site/content_store/item.json?url=/site/website/

Response

Status 200 OK

1{
2  "name":"website",
3  "url":"/site/website",
4  "descriptorUrl":"/site/website.meta.xml",
5  "descriptorDom":null,
6  "properties":null,
7  "folder":true
8}

Responses

Status
Location
Response Body
200

See example above.
404

"No item found at /site/website/index.xml"
500

"Internal server error"