Using Kentico REST API to get document and related categories

Hi Virgil,

There is an example how to get document categories in Kentico 8. I think it's the same for K9: Example - Displaying categories in document lists. So you just need to use CategoryInfoProvider.GetDocumentCategories method to get document categories.

Also, there is an API example for Kentico 9. You can see that there are CategoryInfoProvider and DocumentCategoryInfoProvider. The first works with CategoryInfo objects which describe Category entity, the second one works with DocumentCategoryInfo objects which describe a relation between category and document (pages)

Anton,

Where I appreciate your answer, this was not what I was asking, as I do know those methods :) What I was asking is through a Restful API call (i.e.

Hi Virgil,

Ok, I'm not good in English, maybe that's why I didn't understand you correctly) You can use /cms.category resource path to get categories. Then you can get all bingings between a page and categories /cms.menuitem/53/bindings/cms.documentcategory or get all bindings for all pages /cms.documentcategory and then merge these entities.

Virgil, Kentico Rest API is not very good when you work with complex objects (e.g. user and user settings), so it might be easier to inplement custom web api controller that will return structure you need vs. making a couple of requests from client and merging data there.

However if you want to stay with REST API approach, anton described should work.

Thanks Anton, I appreciate the additional response (and Roman) this was for a simple need that I did not want to put a lot of work into (something internal), so I will take a look at the bindings functionality.

Do either of you, or anyone else, know if there is better documentation out there around the Kentico REST API than just what is in the Kentico documentation? It seems seriously lacking if the API can do more stuff.

Unfortunately I'm not aware of any better resource.