How to add a new field with some computed value in REST response of Kentico for all the document typ

The built-in Kentico REST service is a simple REST service meaning it cannot perform the actions you're looking for. So my suggestion is to create your own service to do what you need.

Computed column in terms of SQL? Not possible.You talking here about changing database schema via REST. REST service is not meant for that. You manage data (i.e. CRUD operations) via REST but not changing DB.

You could try to achieve this by implementing HTTPModule, however I'm not 100% sure if this would work well with Kentico, with custom .NET app it should work.

Here is another approach described to achieve similar behavior, but it is not applicable to all objects at once, but to particular one.

Thanks to all for your responses!

Actually, my problem is with the linked nodes DocumentNamePath in the REST response. I have a linked node which has some child nodes among which few are linked and few are not. For the linked child node, it's showing it's original node's DocumentNamePath which is fine but for the un-linked child nodes also it's showing that linked node DocumentNamePath as it's parent is a linked node.

We want to get the current hierarchy's path as the DocumentNamePath.

Below, I'm trying to explain it with an example.

A --> B (Linked node may be some X --> Y)
      |--> C (Linked Node say M --> N)
      |--> D (Not linked to any node)

where A is the parent of B and B is the parent of C and D.

Now, the DocumentNamePath for:

B is X --> Y --> B

C is M --> N --> C

D is X --> Y --> B --> D

But for D, we want it as

A --> B --> D in the REST response itself as some other application is consuming the data from there.

I hope, my requirement is clear now.

Please help me to accomplish this task.

Thanks,

Binod Paikaray

Thanks very much to all for your help!

Actually I ended up with adding a new filed for all my document types and kept that hidden from users as we needed to get it's value automatically based on some other operation.

It's working perfectly for us!

Thanks very much again to all of you!

Binod Paikaray