Silverstripe CMS Headless rest api

This module adds a customizable rest api to Silverstripe for usage with front end frameworks such as Nuxt or Next JS. It adds three end points for fetching navigation and other common fields, site tree and url specific fields.

Using with Nuxt or Next JS

Tutorial: Headless Silverstripe with Next.JS

Tutorial: Headless Silverstripe with Nuxt.JS

Requirements

• SilverStripe ^4.0

Installation

Add the following section to your composer.json

    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/olivernorden-silverstripe/silverstripe-headless-rest-api"
        }
    ],

Run

composer require olivernorden/silverstripe-headless-rest

Note: When you have completed your module, submit it to Packagist or add it as a VCS repository to your project's composer.json, pointing to the private repository URL.

Default api end points

1. /headless-api/v1/url/<url> will return all fields pertaining to .
2. /headless-api/v1/common will return all fields pertaining to navigation and other common fields.
3. /headless-api/v1/sitetree will return all pages with their fields.

Adding more fields to api

You can add more fields to any of the api end points.

/headless-api/v1/url/

#app/_config/headless-fields.yml
---
Name: custom-headless-rest-fields
---
SilverStripe\CMS\Model\SiteTree:
  headlessFields:
    Title: Title
    Content: Content
    ClassName: ClassName
  

/headless-api/v1/common

#app/_config/headless-common-fields.yml
---
Name: custom-headless-rest-common-fields
---
OliverNorden\HeadlessRest\HeadlessRestController:
    headlessCommonFields:
        Navigation:
            fields:
                Lead: Lead
        SiteConfig:
            fields:
                TagLine: TagLine

/headless-api/v1/sitetree

#app/_config/headless-sitetree-fields.yml
---
Name: custom-headless-rest-sitetree-fields
---
OliverNorden\HeadlessRest\HeadlessRestController:
    headlessSiteTreeFields:
      AbsoluteURL: getAbsoluteURL

Maintainers

• Oliver Nordén [email protected]

Bugtracker

Bugs are tracked in the issues section of this repository. Before submitting an issue please read over existing issues to ensure yours is unique.

If the issue does look like a new bug:

• Create a new issue
• Describe the steps required to reproduce your issue, and the expected outcome. Unit tests, screenshots and screencasts can help here.
• Describe your environment as detailed as possible: SilverStripe version, Browser, PHP version, Operating System, any installed SilverStripe modules.

Please report security issues to the module maintainers directly. Please don't file security issues in the bugtracker.

Development and contribution

If you would like to make contributions to the module please ensure you raise a pull request and discuss with the module maintainers.