Gentics CMS Documentation

Chapters

1. Specification location

2. Client code generation

3. Important notice on authentication

   • Filling out Session ID value

1 Specification location

The specification can be found at http://yourcmshost/CNPortletapp/openapi.yaml or http://yourcmshost/CNPortletapp/openapi.json, in the YAML and JSON formats, respectively.

2 Client code generation

In addition to the official OpenAPI client generator, it is possible to use any other generator of your favor. Please follow the generation instructions of the selected generator. The instruction for the official OpenAPI client generator can be found here .

3 Important notice on authentication

Due to the limitations of the supported security schemes some extra actions are required to make the authentication mechanism of Gentics CMS REST API working.

3.1 Filling out Session ID value

It is important to fill the session id value into the generated client, in order to proceed with the usage of the API methods, that require authentication. The session id is obtained as a result of a successful login.

Below is an example of setting the session id, taken from the plain username/password login, into the generated Angular Typescript client, and using it afterwards for getting the information about the current user:

  constructor(
    private gcms: GcmsApiService,
  ) {
    // Setting the REST API endpoint
    this.gcms.configuration.basePath = environment.gcmsApiBase;
  }
  // ...
  // Logging in
  this.gcms.login(
    null, { login: "mylogin", password: "mypassword" }
  ).toPromise().then(
    ret => { 
      // Setting the session id
      if (!this.gcms.configuration.apiKeys) this.gcms.configuration.apiKeys = {};
      this.gcms.configuration.apiKeys["sid"] = ret.sid;   
      // Executing a getMe() call 
      return this.gcms.getMe().toPromise();
    }
  ).then(ret => {
    console.log(ret);
  });