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Sitecore Content as a Service
Sean Kearney, Solution Architect
Hedgehog Development
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Introductions
• Sean Kearney
– Sitecore developer for 5+ years
– Sitecore MVP since 2009
– Contributed to
“Professional Sitecore Development”
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Introductions
• Hedgehog Development
– Team Development for Sitecore
– CMS Database Compare Tool
– Sitecore Solution & Technology Partner
– Multiple Site of the Year winner
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Agenda
• Your content everywhere!
• Demo applications using Sitecore content.
• What is required?
• How to implement now!
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Beyond the Traditional
Web • Single page applications
• Mobile applications
• App/Web-enabled devices
– Smart TVs
– Set-top devices
• Other
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Sitecore as Our Enterprise
CMS
• Sitecore is our platform of choice.
• Content is more than stuff on a page.
• The CMS that powers our site should
power our organization!
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EXAMPLE
Demo
http://bit.ly/sym-spa
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What Sitecore Has…
• Powerful / friendly UI for managing content
• Robust .NET API
– Only available within Sitecore application
• SOAP Web Service
– Unfriendly.
• API based on Items and Fields
– Non-serializable
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What Do We Need?
• Web API - A “REST” service – “Sitecore Navigator”
– POCO content models
– Mapping framework
– Efficient JSON Serialization
• Consumable APIs – JavaScript API
– iOS
– .NET API
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Architecture
Sit
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Content Navigator
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Content APIs
Sitecore Kernel
Get Content Item(s)
.NET API
JavaScript API
iOS API
JSON Serialization
Plain JSON
Get Content Item(s)
Get Sitecore Item(s)
Item Mapping
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Content Models • POCO Classes
– Simple and lightweight
– Sitecore fields are mapped to a model’s properties
• Base ContentItem – Key
– Name
– Template
– Path
• Content Fields – Rich Text
– Image
– Link
– Reference
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Mapping Framework
• We require a way to convert our Sitecore
item into a Content item
• Possible approaches:
– Manual
– Attributes
– Convention
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REST Content Service
• A service endpoint inside our Sitecore site
• Multiple ways to implement:
– Generic/HTTP Handler
– MVC Controller/Action
– WCF Web API (pre-MVC 4)
– ASP.NET Web API (MVC 4+)
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REST Content Service
• Based on Sitecore’s hierarchical structure
• Seven generic methods to get any piece of content: – Item
– Items
– Parent
– Ancestors
– Children
– Descendants
– Referrers
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THE CODE
Demo
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Content as a Service
• By leveraging existing technology we
expand the capabilities of Sitecore.
• Having a REST service enables
interoperability across many platforms.
• Sitecore can publish content to your entire
organization!
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Helpful Tools
• Code Generation
Team Development for Sitecore
http://TeamDevelopmentForSitecore.com
• Editing Sitecore items in Visual Studio
Sitecore Rocks
http://vsplugins.sitecore.net
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Resources
• Blog: http://SeanKearney.com
• Twitter: @SeanKearney
• Code:
github.com/hedgehogdevelopment
bit.ly/hhog-git
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Q&A
Sitecore Content as a Service
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Feedback Appreciated!
Please take a moment to provide session feedback via the mobile site.
http://www.sitecore.net/SymNA
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