Comments on: Using Elgg’s REST-like API

By: Marcus Povey

Marcus Povey — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:06:21 +0000

That method implies that you have not exposed a function to handle your call.

Remember that if you’re exposing this in a function in a plugin it will need to have been activated in the admin panel for the function to be available.

You can confirm that your function is available by calling the ‘system.api.list’ api as described in the article…

By: Philippe T

Philippe T — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:03:54 +0000

Hi,

Newbie to elgg, I’m trying hard to make REST work in a simple plugin.

But elgg just reply with status -1, with reason: Method call ‘myplugin.method’ has not been implemented

Could you please show me where I can find a sample REST pluin, to start with ?

Thanks,
Philippe

By: Cash

Cash — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:15:53 +0000

@Justin – watch out for pam_auth_usertoken(). It will automatically authenticate any request if require_auth_token is set to false regardless of the value of anonymous.

By: Marcus Povey

Marcus Povey — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:05:55 +0000

Sounds like you’re hitting a call to gatekeeper() somewhere.

By: Justin Gallardo

Justin Gallardo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:29:46 +0000

Marcus,

Thanks for this! It has helped a lot. I’m still running into an issue though. I’m trying to expose a function to be anonymous, and am passing false to require an auth token, and true to anonymous. The problem lays in that if I’m not logged in and try to hit the api, it redirects me to a login page.

I’m pretty sure the problem is rooted in my own custom authentication module, as trying to browse to pg/api/rest/xml/?method=system.api.list redirects me to a login page as well. Can you think of anything specific I may have done wrong in my auth module to cause this? It has seemed to work for everything else.

Thanks!