API instantiation
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The Contensis .NET Delivery API targets .NET Standard 2.0, which means it can be used in .NET Framework 4.6.2 projects and above for Windows only, and .NET Core 2.0 projects and above for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
The Nuget package can be added to a project using the built-in Visual studio Nuget management screens or by using one of the following methods.
- Open the Package Manager Console window within Visual Studio and run the following command:
PM> Install-Package Zengenti.Contensis.Delivery- Open a command window and run the following .NET CLI command:
dotnet add package Zengenti.Contensis.DeliveryNOTE: You may have to target a previous major version of the API to match your version of Contensis.
Client creation
All operations for the API hang off the ContensisClient type, which is created using the static method ContensisClient.Create(). The Create() method allows parts of the default configuration to be partially or completely overridden for that instance.
Standard creation
This is how the majority of clients are created within Contensis razor views.
var client = ContensisClient.Create();Connecting to a different project
Connecting to a different project is useful if there is a shared resources project. The projectID can be found in the project overview screen in the management console.
var sharedResourcesClient = ContensisClient.Create("PUT_PROJECT_ID_HERE");Connecting from a non-Contensis website
Creating a client from outside a Contensis website.
var client = ContensisClient.Create("PUT_PROJECT_ID_HERE", "http://cms.contensis.com", "PUT_CLIENT_ID_HERE", "PUT_SHARED_SECRET_HERE", versionStatus = VersionStatus.Latest);Default configuration
The default configuration can be only set once. For a Contensis published website this is automatically invoked on application start-up to reflect the context of the publishing server, ensuring that the correct service root url, project API id and version status (Published or Latest) are set.
The default configuration becomes effective for all ContensisClient instantiations, negating the need to provide configuration values each and every time the API is used.
Non-Contensis published websites
This is a useful feature for websites that are created using a .NET based framework such as NancyFx or Asp.net MVC.
The client ID and shared secret are obtained from API key management. They can then be used to call the security service to obtain a claims-based bearer token, and to validate that the user can access resources from the service.
API initialisation example
This example demonstrates how the default configuration can be set using the ContensisClientConfiguration type.
using Zengenti.Contensis.Delivery;
var defaultConfiguration = new ContensisClientConfiguration(
rootUrl: "http://cms.contensis.com",
projectApiId: "myProject",
defaultVersionStatus: VersionStatus.Latest, // default: Published
clientId: "651465e0-2fb8-4b0f-aa2f-1ab34cfe0513",
sharedSecret: "2327d623d44e41efa837717a626f4b75098348ebb0a64023a64a805536024dfb1a558c9c49dc47099e8bc203f60fda80"
);
ContensisClient.Configure(defaultConfiguration);