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 Integrate the Fluid Topics API.
Example of a web service call
The following line is an example of using 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 lines show an example of 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"
}
]