Is there any way to expose Sitecore Api? So that 3rd party application can use POST request and further sitecore application can manage POST request

Question

I have 3rd party application, and I want to send some data to sitecore application using POST method. So is it possible to handle HTTP POST within sitecore MVC ? If yes please suggest how to proceed

Answer 1

Yes you can do it by creating an API controller. So for this you need to follow these steps.

• Create a controller and inherit it from ApiController

  namespace Feature.ExampleApi.Controllers
  {
     public class ExampleApiController : ApiController
     {
       [HttpPost]
       [Route("post/{itemNameString}")]
       public IHttpActionResult CreateItem(string itemNameString)
       {
           // Do your operation
  
           // Do sth with item
  
           return Json(result);
       }
    }
  }
  

• Register your controller

  namespace Feature.ExampleApi
  {
     public class ServicesConfigurator : IServicesConfigurator
     {
       public void Configure(IServiceCollection serviceCollection)
       {
           // Controllers
           serviceCollection.Replace(ServiceDescriptor.Transient(typeof(ExampleApiController),
               typeof(ExampleApiController)));
       }
    }
  }
  

  If you are working with headless environment, register it like this.

  public void Configure(IServiceCollection serviceCollection)
  {
      serviceCollection.AddScoped<IDefaultRenderingContentsResolver, DefaultRenderingContentsResolver>();
      serviceCollection.AddMvcControllers("*.Feature");
  }
  

  Follow this article for headless environment.

  https://trnktms.com/2022/09/29/sitecore-headless-how-to-reuse-layout-service-serialization-in-custom-api-controllers/

• Create config.

  <configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
    <sitecore>
      <services>
       <configurator type="Feature.ExampleApi.ServicesConfigurator, Feature.ExampleApi" />
      </services>
    </sitecore>
  </configuration>
  

Follow this article for more details.

https://jakubwajs.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/create-api-controller-in-sitecore-9-3/

You can also work with the Sitecore Item Serice to create items and more.

https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/92/sitecore-experience-manager/the-restful-api-for-the-itemservice.html