Possibilities of sending RESTful services without using Web API in Sitecore

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Hi All,

We are going to implement Mobile Application, here 3 level of people are involved to achieve this task.

Level 1: Sitecore Developement
Level 2: IOS
Level 3: Android

My task is Level 1, Sitecore(CMS) with .Net and need to send RESTful service without using Web API, to Level 2 people. So, that the Level 2 people will take care next level configurations.

Here, my question is what are all the possibilities to send service without using API, and which one is best one out of those.

Posted 21-Sep-15 3:45am

Naveen.Sanagasetti

Updated 21-Sep-15 4:29am

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Sinisa Hajnal 21-Sep-15 10:23am

I think you need to study a bit more. REST service should work regardless of technology used to access it due to it using standard URI as resource (and details of the implementation should be hidden from the requester).

That is, the one accessing your service should write http://yourservice.wht/categories/category/1
And receive category with ID 1 (variations on this are of course possible) : one could use post and send the data, accept header and content-type could / should be set...

Web API just makes it easier for you as a service developer to make the service, to consumers it should be irrelevant how it was written.

Good luck

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 21-Sep-15 10:27am

RESTful is not a product of Web API. It is a standard, so you can use it anyways. It doesn't need to be used with (ASP.NET) Web API itself.

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RaisKazi · Answer 1 · 2015-09-21T04:23:00

If you are planning to develop your REST service in .Net then Asp.Net Web API is the best approach considering many features it provides. Alternate is WCF REST, but if you have permissions to leverage WCF then I am sure you should be having permissions to use Asp.Net Web API. So both Asp.Net Web API and WCF REST options are out.

Below Codeproject article demonstartes how you can develop REST Service using simple .Net HttpHandler. I my self used it when Asp.Net Web API wasnt released and I did not had leverage to use WCF REST.

Developing a REST Web Service using C# - A walkthrough

If you want to explore outside .Net then you may explore NodeJs etc.
http://cwbuecheler.com/web/tutorials/2014/restful-web-app-node-express-mongodb/

Update
To create REST service in your Sitecore CMS code, refer below urls.
http://blog.falafel.com/using-sitecore-mvc-rest-services/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10747246/creating-a-rest-service-in-sitecore

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1308226/sitecore-and-asp-net-mvc

And more material here.