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plone.restapi is a RESTful hypermedia API for Plone.

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Introduction
============

plone.restapi is a RESTful hypermedia API for Plone.


RESTful Hypermedia API
----------------------

REST stands for `Representational State Transfer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer>`_. It is a software architectural principle to create loosely coupled web APIs.

Most web APIs have a tight coupling between client and server. This makes them brittle and hard to change over time. It requires them not only to fully document every small detail of the API, but also to write a client implementation that follows that specification 100% correctly and breaks as soon as you change any detail.

A hypermedia API just provides an entry point to the API that contains hyperlinks the clients can follow, just as a human user of a regular website knows the initial URL of the site and then follows hyperlinks to navigate through the site. This has the advantage that the client needs to understand only how to detect and follow links. The URL and other details of the API can change without breaking the client.


Documentation
=============

http://plonerestapi.readthedocs.org


Roadmap
=======

https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/milestones


Live Demo
=========

A live demo of Plone 5 with the latest plone.restapi release is available at:

http://plonedemo.kitconcept.com

Example GET request on the portal root::

$ curl -i http://plonedemo.kitconcept.com -H "Accept: application/json"

Example POST request to create a new document::

$ curl -i -X POST http://plonedemo.kitconcept.com -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-raw '{"@type": "Document", "title": "My Document"}' --user admin:admin

.. note:: You will need some kind of API browser application to explore the API. We recommend using `Postman <http://www.getpostman.com/>`_.


Design Decisions
================

* A truly RESTful API (Hypermedia / HATEOAS / Linked-data)
* JSON is the main target format; support for other formats (HTML, XML) will come later
* Use HTTP headers (to set format and versioning, also provide URL-based option to make it easier for people to try it out)
* No versioning; versioning in the HTTP header can be added later
* Field names just map over (we will not try to clean up attributes or enforce naming standards like pep8 (e.g. isPrincipiaFoldish -> is_folderish)


Software Quality
================

* 100% test coverage
* 100% PEP8 compliant
* Documentation-first approach for enhancements


Further Reading
===============

* `REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture (Webber, Parastatidis, Robinson) <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596805829>`_


Standards
=========

- `JSON-LD <http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/>`_
- `JSON Schema <http://json-schema.org/>`_
- `Schema.org <http://schema.org/>`_
- `Hydra <http://www.w3.org/ns/hydra/spec/latest/core/>`_
- `Collection+JSON <http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/>`_
- `Siren <https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren>`_


License
=======

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.

Contributors
============

.. note::
place names and roles of the people who contribute to this package
in this file, one to a line, like so:

- Timo Stollenwerk, Original Author
- Thomas Buchberger
- Lukas Graf
- Víctor Fernández de Alba
- Paul Roeland
- Mikel Larreategi
- Eric Brehault
- Andreas Zeidler
- Carsten Senger
- Tom Gross
- Roel Bruggink
- Yann Fouillat, alias Gagaro
- Sune Brøndum Wøller
Changelog
=========

2.2.0 (2018-06-25)
------------------

New Features:

- Document the use of the `Accept-Language` HTTP header.
[erral]

- Translate FTI titles on `@types` endpoint. Fixes #337.
[erral]

- Translate action name, workflow state and transition names in @history endpoint.
[erral]

- Enhance `@workflow` endpoint to support applying transitions to all contained
items and to set effective and expiration dates.
[buchi]

Bugfixes:

- Make sure DX DefaultFieldDeserializer validates field values.
[lgraf]

- Reindex AT content on PATCH. This fixes `issue 531 <https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/531>`_.
[buchi]

- Fix change password on Plone 5.2
[sunew]

- Plone 5.2 compatible tests.
[sunew]


2.1.0 (2018-06-23)
------------------

New Features:

- Include translated role title in `@roles` GET.
[lgraf]


2.0.1 (2018-06-22)
------------------

Bugfixes:

- Hide upgrades from the add-ons control panel.
Fixes `issue 532 <https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/532>`_.
[maurits]


2.0.0 (2018-04-27)
------------------

Breaking Changes:

- Convert all datetime, DateTime and time instances to UTC before serializing.
[thet]

- Use python-dateutil instead of DateTime to parse date strings when de-serializing.
[thet]

- Make `@translations` endpoint expandable
[erral]

- Rename the results attribute in `@translations` endpoint to be 'items'
[erral]

- Remove 'language' attribute in `@translations` endpoint from the
top-level response entry
[erral]

New Features:

- Expose the tagged values for widgets in the @types endpoint.
[jaroel]

- Render subject vocabulary as items for subjects field.
[jaroel]

- New permission for accessing user information in the GET @user endpoint
`plone.restapi: Access Plone user information` mapped by default to Manager
role (as it was before).
[sneridagh]

Bugfixes:

- Add VHM support to @search
[csenger]


1.6.0 (2018-04-17)
------------------

New Features:

- Add `expand.navigation.depth` parameter to the `@navigation` endpoint.
[fulv, sneridagh]


1.5.0 (2018-04-03)
------------------

New Features:

- Allow users to update their own properties and password.
[sneridagh]


1.4.1 (2018-03-22)
------------------

Bugfixes:

- Fix serialization of `Discussion Item` and `Collection` content types when
called with `fullobjects` parameter.
[sneridagh]


1.4.0 (2018-03-19)
------------------

New Features:

- Add expandable @actions endpoint to retrieve portal_actions.
[csenger,timo,sneridagh]


1.3.1 (2018-03-14)
------------------

Bugfixes:

- Support null in content PATCH requests to delete a field value
(Dexterity only). This fixes #187.
[csenger]


1.3.0 (2018-03-05)
------------------

New Features:

- Observe the allow_discussion allowance (global, fti, object) on object
serialization.
[sneridagh]

- Add '@email-send' endpoint to allow authorized users to send emails to
arbitrary addresses (Plone 5 only).
[sneridagh]


1.2.0 (2018-02-28)
------------------

New Features:

- Allow users to get their own user information.
[erral]

Bugfixes:

- Mark uninstall profile as non-installable.
[hvelarde]

- Fix the use of fullobjects in Archetypes based sites @search
[erral]

- Fix workflow translations with unicode characters.
[Gagaro]

- Fix workflow encoding in transition endpoint.
[Gagaro]


1.1.0 (2018-01-24)
------------------

New Features:

- Add '@email-notification' endpoint to contact the site owner via email.
(Plone 5 only)
[sneridagh]

Bugfixes:

- Remove warning about alpha version from docs.
[timo]


1.0.0 (2018-01-17)
------------------

Bugfixes:

- Remove deprecated getSiteEncoding import.
[timo]

- Build documentation on Plone 5.0.x (before: Plone 4.3.x).
[timo]


1.0b1 (2018-01-05)
------------------

Breaking Changes:

- Rename 'url' attribute on navigation / breadcrumb to '@id'.
[timo]

New Features:

- Allow client to ask for the full representation of an object after creation
by setting the 'Prefer' header on a PATCH request.
[Gagaro]

- Support deserialization of a relationChoice field using the contents of the
serialization (enhanced by the serializer) output.
[sneridagh]

- Allow properties when adding a user.
This allows setting the fullname by anonymous users.
[jaroel]

- Add support for IContextSourceBinder vocabularies on JSON schema Choice
fields adapters.
[sneridagh]

- Add upgrade guide.
[timo]

Bugfixes:

- Fix issue where POST or PATCH a named file with a download link would
always return self.context.image, not the actual file.
[jaroel]

- Fix DateTimeDeserializer when posting None for a non-required field.
[jaroel]

- Fixed 'required' for DateTime fields.
[jaroel]

- Batching: Preserve list-like query string params when canonicalizing URLs.
[lgraf]

- Fixed NamedFieldDeserializer to take a null to remove files/images.
[jaroel]

- Fixed NamedFieldDeserializer to validate required fields.
[jaroel]

- Prevent a fatal error when we get @workflow without permission to get
review_history worfklow variable.
[thomasdesvenain]

- Make user registration work as default Plone behavior by adding the Member
role to the user.
[sneridagh]


1.0a25 (2017-11-23)
-------------------

Breaking Changes:

- Remove @components navigation and breadcrumbs. Use top level @navigation and
@breadcrumb endpoints instead.
[timo]

- Remove "sharing" attributes from GET response.
[timo,jaroel]

- Convert richtext using .output_relative_to. Direct conversion from RichText
if no longer supported as we *always* need a context for the ITransformer.
[jaroel]

New Features:

- Add fullobjects parameter to content GET request.
[timo]

- Include descriptions of modified fields in object-modified event.
[buchi]

- Add uninstall profile
[davilima6]

- Add `include_items` option to `SerializeFolderToJson`.
[Gagaro]

Bugfixes:

- Fix error messages for password reset (wrong user and wrong password).
[csenger]

- Fix #440, URL and @id wrong in second level get contents call for folderish
items.
[sneridagh]

- Fix #441, GET in a folderish content with 'fullobjects' is
including all items recursively.
[sneridagh]

- Fix #443, Ensure the userid returned by `authenticateCredentials` is a byte string and not unicode.
[Gagaro]


1.0a24 (2017-11-13)
-------------------

New Features:

- Add 'is_editable' and 'is_deletable' to the serialization of comments
objects. Also refactored the comments endpoint to DRY.
[sneridagh]

- Improve is_folderish property to include Plone site and AT content types
[sneridagh]

Bugfixes:

- Cover complete use cases of file handling in a content type. This includes
removal of a image/file and being able to feed the PATCH endpoint with the
response of a GET operation the image/file fields without deleting the
existing value.
[sneridagh]


1.0a23 (2017-11-07)
-------------------

Bugfixes:

- Fix JWT authentication for users defined in the Zope root user folder.
This fixes https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/168 and
https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/127.
[buchi]

- Fix datetime deserialization for timezone aware fields.
This fixes https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/253
[buchi]


1.0a22 (2017-11-04)
-------------------

New Features:

- Add @translations endpoint
[erral]

- Include title in site serialization.
[buchi]

- Include is_folderish property on GET request responses. Fixes #327.
[sneridagh]


Bugfixes:

- Strip spaces from TextLine values to match z3c.form implementation.
[jaroel]

- Disallow None and u'' when TextLine is required. Refs #351.
[jaroel]

- Make getting '/@types/{type_id}' work for non-DX types, ie "Plone Site".
[jaroel]

- Remove Products.PasswortResetTool from setup.py since it is
a soft dependency. It is included in Plone >= 5.1.
[tomgross]

- Update pytz to fix travis builds
[sneridagh]


1.0a21 (2017-09-23)
-------------------

New Features:

- Add support for expandable elements. See http://plonerestapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/expansion.html for details.
[buchi]

- Translate titles in @workflow.
[csenger]

- Add endpoints for locking/unlocking. See http://plonerestapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/locking.html for details.
[buchi]

- Add @controlpanels endpoint.
[jaroel, timo]

Bugfixes:

- Fix ZCML load order issue by explicitly loading permissions.zcml from CMFCore.
[lgraf]

- Fix @id values returned by @search with 'fullobjects' option
[ebrehault]

- Re-add skipped tests from @breadcrumbs and @navigation now that expansion
is in place.
[sneridagh]


1.0a20 (2017-07-24)
-------------------

Bugfixes:

- Support content reordering on the site root.
[jaroel]

- Support setting Layout on the site root.
[jaroel]

- Add clarification when using SearchableText parameter in plone.restapi to avoid confusions
[sneridagh]


1.0a19 (2017-06-25)
-------------------

New Features:

- Implement tus.io upload endpoint.
[buchi]


1.0a18 (2017-06-14)
-------------------

New Features:

- Add "&fullobject" parameter in @search to retrieve full objects
[ebrehault]

Bugfixes:

- Tweaks to README.rst
[tkimnguyen]

- Don't list non-DX types in @types endpoint.
Refs https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/150
[jaroel]


1.0a17 (2017-05-31)
-------------------

Breaking Changes:

- Change RichText field value to use 'output' instead of 'raw' to fix inline
paths. This fixes #302.
[erral]

New Features:

- Automatically publish docker images on hub.docker.com.
[timo]

Bugfixes:

- Docs: Fix batching example request/response.
[lgraf]


1.0a16 (2017-05-23)
-------------------

New Features:

- Add @comments endpoint.
[jaroel,timo,pjoshi]

- Add @roles endpoint to list defined global roles.
[jaroel]

- Add JSON schema to @registry listing.
[jaroel]

- Allow to manipulate the group membership in the @groups endpoint.
[jaroel]

- List and mutate global roles assigned to a user in the @users endpoint.
[jaroel]

Bugfixes:

- Bind schema field to context to handle context vocabularies. #389
[csenger]

- The inherit flag was the wrong way around.
Blocked inherit showed up as non-blocked.
[jaroel]


1.0a15 (2017-05-15)
-------------------

New Features:

- Add @translations endpoint
[erral]

- Reorder children in a item using the content endpoint.
[jaroel]

- Add batched listing of registry entries to @registry endpoint.
[jaroel]


1.0a14 (2017-05-02)
-------------------

New Features:

- Add @history endpoint.
[jaroel]

Bugfixes:

- Fix the @move endpoint fails to return 403 when the user don't have proper
delete permissions over the parent folder.
[sneridagh]


1.0a13 (2017-04-18)
-------------------

New Features:

- Add support for a 'search' parameter to @sharing. This returns additional
principals in 'entries', also flagging the acquired and inherited fields.
[jaroel]

- Add support for setting/modifying 'layout' on DX and AT content endpoints.
[jaroel]

- Add support for getting the defined layouts on the root types endpoint.
[jaroel]

Bugfixes:

- Add the title to the workflow history in the @workflow endpoint.
This fixes #279.
[sneridagh]

- Don't fetch unnecessary PasswordResetTool in Plone 5.1
[tomgross]


1.0a12 (2017-04-03)
-------------------

Bugfixes:

- Handle special case when user @move content that cannot delete returning
proper 403
[sneridagh]


1.0a11 (2017-03-24)
-------------------

Bugfixes:

- Remove zope.intid dependency from copy/move endpoint. Remove plone.api
dependency from principals endpoint. Make
ChoiceslessRelationListSchemaProvider available only if z3c.relationfield
is installed. This fixes https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/288
[erral]

- Remove unittest2 imports from tests.
[timo]

- Add Products.PasswortResetTool to dependencies. This dependency is gone in
Plone 5.1.
[timo]

- Make import of LocalrolesModifiedEvent conditional, so plone.restapi
doesn't prevent Plone 4.3 deployments < 4.3.4 from booting.
[lgraf]


1.0a10 (2017-03-22)
-------------------

New Features:

- Add @sharing endpoint.
[timo,csenger,sneridagh]

- Add @vocabularies endpoint.
[timo,csenger,sneridagh]

- Add @copy and @move endpoints.
[buchi,sneridagh]

- Docs: Convert all HTTP examples to use sphinxcontrib-httpexample.
[lgraf]

- Add 'addable' attribute to the @types endpoint. It specifies if the content
type can be added to the current context. See
https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/173.
[jaroel]

- Add support for named IJsonSchemaProvider adapter to target a single
field in a schema. This allows us to prevent rendering all choices in
relatedItems. See https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/199.
[jaroel]

- Add review_state to the folderish summary serializer.
[sneridagh]

- Add @principals endpoint. It searches for principals and returns a list of
users and groups that matches the query. This is aimed to be used in the
sharing UI widget or other user/groups search widgets.
[sneridagh]

- Add reset-password action to the @users endpoint.
https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/158
[timo,csenger]

Bugfixes:

- Fix coveralls reporting.
[timo]

- Return correct @id for folderish objects created via POST.
[lgraf]

- Fix timezone-related failures when running tests through `coverage`.
[witsch]

- @search endpoint: Also prefill path query dict with context path.
This will allow users to supply an argument like path.depth=1, and still
have path.query be prefilled server-side to the context's path.
[lgraf]

- Overhaul JSON schema generation for @types endpoint. It now returns
fields in correct order and in their appropriate fieldsets.
[lgraf]

- Add missing id to the Plone site serialization, related to issue #186.
[sneridagh]

- Add missing adapter for IBytes on JSONFieldSchema generator. This fixes the
broken /@types/Image and /@types/File endpoints.
[sneridagh]

- Fix addable types for member users and roles assigned locally on @types
endpoint.
[sneridagh]


1.0a9 (2017-03-03)
------------------

New Features:

- Make date and datetime fields provide a 'widget' attribute.
[timo]

- Add documentation for types endpoint schema.
[timo]

- Add basic groups CRUD operations in @groups endpoints
[sneridagh]

- Make @types endpoint include a 'mode' attribute. This fixes https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/198.
[timo]

Bugfixes:

- Fix queries to ensure ordering of container items by getObjectPositionInParent.
[lgraf]


1.0a8 (2017-01-12)
------------------

New Features:

- Add simple user search capabilities in the GET @users endpoint.
[sneridagh]

Bugfixes:

- Allow installation of plone.restapi if JWT plugin already exists. This fixes
https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/119.
[buchi]


1.0a7 (2016-12-05)
------------------

Bugfixes:

- Make login endpoint accessible without UseRESTAPI permission. This fixes
https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/166.
[buchi]


1.0a6 (2016-11-30)
------------------

New Features:

- Introduce dedicated permission required to use REST API at all
(assigned to everybody by default).
[lgraf]

Bugfixes:

- When token expires, PAS plugin should return an empty credential.
[ebrehault]


1.0a5 (2016-10-07)
------------------

Bugfixes:

- Remove plone.api dependency from users service. This fixes
https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/issues/145.
[timo]


1.0a4 (2016-10-05)
------------------

New Features:

- Make POST request return the serialized object.
[timo]

- Include 'id' attribute in responses.
[timo]


1.0a3 (2016-09-27)
------------------

New Features:

- Add @users endpoint.
[timo]

Bugfixes:

- Fix bug where disabling the "Use Keyring" flag wasn't persisted in jwt_auth plugin.
[lgraf]


1.0a2 (2016-08-20)
------------------

New Features:

- Implements navigation and breadcrumbs components
[ebrehault]

- Add `widget` and support for RichText field in @types component.
[ebrehault]

- Add fieldsets in @types
[ebrehault]

Bugfixes:

- Disable automatic CSRF protection for @login and @login-renew endpoints:
If persisting tokens server-side is enabled, those requests need to be allowed to cause DB writes.
[lgraf]

- Documentation: Fixed parameter 'data' to JSON format in JWT Authentication
documentation
[lccruz]

- Tests: Fail tests on uncommitted changes to docs/source/_json/
[lgraf]

- Tests: Use `freezegun` to freeze hard to control timestamps in response
dumps used for documentation.
[lgraf]

- Tests: Limit available languages to a small set to avoid excessive language
lists in response dumps used for documentation.
[lgraf]


1.0a1 (2016-07-14)
------------------

- Initial release.
[timo,buchi,lukasgraf,et al.]

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