Soap web service for updating site content

Hello,

I would like to make a webservice (using nusoap) to allow external applications to insert, edit or delete MODx site content. This soap server could just edit the site_content table in the database, or it could use some of the modx api, maybe to take advantage of the built-in user authentication. The problem is that the soap call cannot pass trough the manager, so i cannot use the file manager/processors/save_content.processor.php.

My question is : is it possible, easy and worthwile to instantiate a modx object in my soap server, so that I can use it to login a user, and edit the pages following the permissions of this user, and collect any error ? Or should i implement my own user authentication check and edit directly the database table ?

Thanks

Fang, right now you’d need to duplicate all the logic in those manager files as best you could, while trying to isolate the content from the logic. However, I am in the process of developing a concise, object-oriented API into all persistent MODx data, so that there is a consistent authentication mechanism, a consistent way to create documents, edit elements of content, etc. Also included in the effort will be various new types of MODx documents, and I can easily see a nusoap server as one of those instances, exposing MODx API functionality as a web service. Similar with AJAX services.

But for now...you’ll have to wrangle that procedural code from the existing manager scripts.

Ok, thank you for your helpfull reply.

I’ll post the code in this thread as soon as I have something useable.