J!API

Test API for Joomla, only basic tags are supported at this stage

This API use SlimFramework : http://www.slimframework.com

Usage

Upload the all the content at the root of a Joomla 3 website

Verbs

Five HTTP verbs are supported:

• GET requests to retrieve information
• POST to add new records
• PUT to update records
• DELETE requests to remove records
• OPTIONS used by some framework to test a route

Method Override

Some browser/framework don't support all this method. In this case, you can send a POST with _METHOD='PUT' as parameter

you may also override the HTTP method by using the X-HTTP-Method-Override header

Formats

We support 4 differents format for output. If you don’t specify an accept header, the API will return JSON format by default:

• XML / HTTP-Header Accept: application/xml
• JSON / HTTP-Header Accept: application/json
• JSONP / HTTP-Header Accept: application/json / For JSONP, add the ?callback parameter to any GET call to have the results wrapped in a JSON function. For example: https://mysite.ch/api/v1/sites?callback=myfunction
• Serialized / HTTP-Header Accept: text/plain

We support content negociation : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation Done with http://williamdurand.fr/Negotiation/

Errors

API return status booth in body and header

• 400 Bad Request
• 403 Forbidden
• 404 Not Found

{
"error": true,
"msg": "ERROR: Invalid Route",
"status": 404
} 

<api>
<error>1</error>
<msg>ERROR: Invalid Route</msg>
<status>404</status>
</api>

Plugins

You can extend the API by plugins see plgJapiUsers as basic exemple

This is only a test to show the general concept