Fluid Topics integrators can call a Fluid Topics web service to retrieve data and reuse this data in external applications as follows:
Fluid Topics administrators can call a Fluid Topics web services to perform actions such as deleting a source, creating a user, managing content, and more.
Most often without knowing it, end users call web services when performing actions such as searching for and retrieving content. The Fluid Topics user interface makes these calls invisible to end users.
For examples of ways of using the Fluid Topics web services, see the Developer Hub.
Example of a web service call
The following example shows how to use curl to call a Fluid Topics web service that requires authentication:
curl http://doc.antidot.net/api/users -u john.doe@fluidtopics.com:PASSWORD
The following example shows the response to this call:
[
{
"id": "f6799959-765e-4319-a156-c09ad3251366",
"displayName": "John Doe",
"emailAddress": "john.doe@fluidtopics.com"
},
{
"id": "9aab1622-6b63-47af-a90a-68bb7939c214",
"displayName": "Paul Dupont",
"emailAddress": "paul.dupont@fluidtopics.com"
}
]