ContentChef Java/Kotlin/Android SDK

Welcome to ContentChef API-First CMS's Java/Kotlin/Android SDK.

How to use it

Java/Kotlin/Android

Create your ContentChef instance like this:

val contentChef = CallbackContentChefProvider.getContentChef(  
    ContentChefEnvironmentConfiguration(  
        ContentChefEnvironment.LIVE, SPACE_ID
  )  
)

SPACE_ID can be retrieved from your ContentChef's dashboard.

You can now use your contentChef instance to get the channel you want to use to retrieve info: you have two channels, the OnlineChannel and the PreviewChannel.

With the OnlineChannel you can retrieve contents which are in live state and which are actually visible, while with the PreviewChannel you can retrieve contents which are in in both stage and live states and even contents that are not visible in the current date.

Both the OnlineChannel and the PreviewChannel have two methods which are getContent() and search()

You can use the getContent() method to collect a specific content by its own publicId, for example to retrieve a single post from your blog, a single image from a gallery or a set of articles from your featured articles list. Otherwise you can use the search() method to find contents with multiple matching criteria, like content definition name, publishing dates and more.

Examples

PUBLISHING_CHANNEL can be retrieved from your ContentChef's dashboard.

PREVIEW_API_KEY and ONLINE_API_KEY must be used to retrieve contents from the PreviewChannel and the OnlineChannel respectively. Both the api keys can be retrieved from your ContentChef's dashboard.

Retrieve the new-header content from the live environment:

val onlineContentRequestData = OnlineContentRequestData(  
    "new-header"  
)

val onlineChannel = contentChef.getOnlineChannel(ONLINE_API_KEY, PUBLISHING_CHANNEL)

onlineChannel.getContent(onlineContentRequestData, {  
  println("onSuccess $it")  
}, {  
  println("onError $it")  
})

Preview the new-header content in a given future date:

val targetDate = ContentChefDateFormat.parseDate("2030-01-01T05:42:17.945-05")!!

val previewContentRequestData = PreviewContentRequestData(  
    "new-header", targetDate
)

val previewChannel = contentChef.getPreviewChannel(PREVIEW_API_KEY, PUBLISHING_CHANNEL)

previewChannel.getContent(previewContentRequestData, {  
  println("onSuccess $it")  
}, {  
  println("onError $it")  
})

Search for all the contents with definition as default-header in the live environment:

val searchOnlineRequestData = SearchOnlineRequestData(  
    contentDefinitions = listOf("default-header"),  
  take = 10  
)

val onlineChannel = contentChef.getOnlineChannel(ONLINE_API_KEY, PUBLISHING_CHANNEL)

onlineChannel.search(searchOnlineRequestData, {  
  println("onSuccess $it")  
}, {  
  println("onError $it")  
})

Preview all the contents with definition as default-header in a given future date:

val targetDate = ContentChefDateFormat.parseDate("2030-01-01T05:42:17.945-05")!!

val searchPreviewRequestData = SearchPreviewRequestData(  
    contentDefinitions = listOf("default-header"),  
  targetDate = targetDate,  
  take = 10  
)

val previewChannel = contentChef.getPreviewChannel(PREVIEW_API_KEY, PUBLISHING_CHANNEL)

previewChannel.search(searchPreviewRequestData, {  
  println("onSuccess $it")  
}, {  
  println("onError $it")  
})

Look at sampleapp and sampleapp-android in the source code for more examples.

Installation

To add ContentChef to your project you can use Maven or Gradle.

Java/Kotlin:

If using Maven, add this to your pom.xml dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.contentchef</groupId>
    <artifactId>contentchef-jvm-callback</artifactId>
    <version>x.y.z</version>
</dependency>

If using Gradle, add this to your build.gradle dependencies:

implementation 'io.contentchef:contentchef-jvm-callback:x.y.z'

Android

Add this to your build.gradle dependencies:

implementation 'io.contentchef:contentchef-jvm-callback-android:x.y.z'

Dependencies

The Java/Kotlin SDK depends on org.json:json:20190722.
The Android SDK has no dependencies at all.