Adobe Experience Manager Assets HTTP API assets-http-api

Overview overview

The Assets HTTP API allows for create-read-update-delete (CRUD) operations on digital assets, including on metadata, on renditions, and on comments, together with structured content using Experience Manager Content Fragments. It is exposed at /api/assets and is implemented as REST API. It includes support for Content Fragments.

To access the API:

The API response is a JSON file for some MIME types and a response code for all MIME types. The JSON response is optional and may not be available, for example, for PDF files. Rely on the response code for further analysis or actions.

Content Fragments content-fragments

A Content Fragment is a special type of asset. It can be used to access structured data, such as texts, numbers, dates, among others. As there are several differences to standard assets (such as images or documents), some additional rules apply to handling Content Fragments.

For more information, see Content Fragments support in the Experience Manager Assets HTTP API.

Data model data-model

The Assets HTTP API exposes two major elements, folders and assets (for standard assets). Also, it exposes more detailed elements for the custom data models that describe structured content in Content Fragments. See Content Fragment data models for further information.

Folders folders

Folders are like directories as in the traditional file systems. Folder can contain just assets, just folders, or folders and assets. Folders have the following components:

Entities: The entities of a folder are its child elements, which can be folders and assets.

Properties:

Links Folders expose three links:

Assets assets

In Experience Manager an asset contains the following elements:

For information about elements in Content Fragments see Content Fragments Support in Experience Manager Assets HTTP API.

In Experience Manager a folder has the following components:

Available features available-features

The Assets HTTP API includes the following features:

Retrieve a folder listing retrieve-a-folder-listing

Retrieves a Siren representation of an existing folder and of its child entities (subfolders or assets).

Request: GET /api/assets/myFolder.json

Response codes: The response codes are:

Response: The class of the entity returned is an asset or a folder. The properties of contained entities are a subset of the full set of properties of each entity. To obtain a full representation of the entity, clients should retrieve the contents of the URL pointed to by the link with a rel of self.

Create a folder create-a-folder

Creates a sling: OrderedFolder at the given path. If * is provided instead of a node name, the servlet uses the parameter name as node name. The request accepts either of the following:

Also, properties of the folder can be specified as URL query parameters.

An API call fails with a 500 response code if the parent node of the provided path does not exist. A call returns a response code 409 if the folder exists.

Parameters: name is the folder name.

Request

Response codes: The response codes are:

Create an asset create-an-asset

See asset upload for information on how to create an asset. You cannot create an asset using the HTTP API.

Update an asset binary update-asset-binary

See asset upload for information on how to update asset binaries. You cannot update an asset binary using the HTTP API.

Update metadata of an asset update-asset-metadata

Updates the Asset metadata properties. If you update any property in the dc: namespace, the API updates the same property in the jcr namespace. The API does not sync the properties under the two namespaces.

Request: PUT /api/assets/myfolder/myAsset.png -H"Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"class":"asset", "properties":{"dc:title":"My Asset"}}'

Response codes: The response codes are:

Create an asset rendition create-an-asset-rendition

Create a rendition for an asset. If request parameter name is not provided, the file name is used as rendition name.

Parameters: The parameters are name for name of the rendition and file as a file reference.

Request

Response codes

Update an asset rendition update-an-asset-rendition

Updates respectively replace an asset rendition with the new binary data.

Request: PUT /api/assets/myfolder/myasset.png/renditions/myRendition.png -H"Content-Type: image/png" --data-binary @myRendition.png

Response codes: The response codes are:

Add a comment on an asset create-an-asset-comment

Parameters: The parameters are message for the message body of the comment and annotationData for the Annotation data in JSON format.

Request: POST /api/assets/myfolder/myasset.png/comments/* -F"message=Hello World." -F"annotationData={}"

Response codes: The response codes are:

Copy a folder or an asset copy-a-folder-or-asset

Copies a folder or asset available at the provided path to a new destination.

Request Headers: The parameters are:

Request: COPY /api/assets/myFolder -H"X-Destination: /api/assets/myFolder-copy"

Response codes: The response codes are:

Move a folder or an asset move-a-folder-or-asset

Moves a folder or asset at the given path to a new destination.

Request Headers: The parameters are:

Request: MOVE /api/assets/myFolder -H"X-Destination: /api/assets/myFolder-moved"

Response codes: The response codes are:

Delete a folder, an asset, or a rendition delete-a-folder-asset-or-rendition

Deletes a resource (-tree) at the provided path.

Request

Response codes: The response codes are:

Tips, best practices, and limitations tips-limitations

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