Working with pages and files

The officially supported API for creating, editing and deleting pages and files is the Atom Publishing ProtocolLink opens in a new window. Each Sitebuilder page (like /services/its, or /fac/sci/chemistry, and every page beneath that, and every page beneath that) is an Atom Collection of files and sub-pages, which are in themselves Collections). The Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is a RESTful API, which means the HTTP Method sent determines the type of the request. GET returns current information about the page (listing the pages under a page or returning the Atom representation of a page); PUT replaces the current content of a page with new content (editing pages, replacing files); POST creates a new page or file (creating pages, uploading files); DELETE purges the page or file.

IBM have a tutorial on the Atom Publishing ProtocolLink opens in a new window with examples for a general-case APP endpoint.

The APP service document for a Sitebuilder page is:

https://sitebuilder.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/edit/atom/atom.htm?page=/your/page/url/here

This contains no useful information bar a link to the collection page for that page, which is the same URL with &type=list on the end:

https://sitebuilder.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/edit/atom/atom.htm?page=/your/page/url/here&type=list

Sending a GET request to this URL returns a list of <entry> items for each sub-page including information about them and their HTML content, and a <link ref="edit"> pointing to the single entry APP endpoint for that page. For all Sitebuilder pages, this is the same as the previous URL but with the type set to single.

https://sitebuilder.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/edit/atom/atom.htm?page=/your/page/url/here&type=single

which returns an Atom representation of the page including the HTML and a subset of properties.

The APP service document for a Sitebuilder file is slightly different:

https://sitebuilder.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/edit/atom/file.htm?page=/your/file/url.jpg

This contains no useful information again, just a link to the single entry APP endpoint (type=single):

https://sitebuilder.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/edit/atom/file.htm?page=/your/file/url.jpg&type=single

which, as with the API for pages, returns an Atom representation of the file.

In these examples we use two cURL options not seen previously. -X specifies the HTTP Method to use for the operation (described in the first paragraph of this page), and --data-binary specifies a local file to use for the data to send to the server - we use this to specify the file to upload, or the Atom representation of the page. We also use -H to send HTTP Headers.

Examples

Name	Description
Creating a new page	Using the Sitebuilder API to create a new page.
Editing page content	Using the Sitebuilder API to edit the content of a page.
Changing page properties	Using the Sitebuilder API to change page properties.
Marking a page as deleted	Using the Sitebuilder API to mark a page as deleted.
Purging a page	Using the Sitebuilder API to purge a page.
Uploading a file	Using the Sitebuilder API to upload a file.
Replacing the contents of a file	Using the Sitebuilder API to replace the contents of a file.
Changing file properties	Using the Sitebuilder API to change file properties.
Marking a file as deleted	Using the Sitebuilder API to mark a file as deleted.
Purging a file	Using the Sitebuilder API to purge a file.