Content Service
The Content Delivery Content Service, or Content Service for short, is the web service that delivers content from the Content Delivery environment to the presentation environment. It can also be used for integration with affiliate websites.
- Content Interaction Libraries (CIL) and namespaces
Unlike the Public Content API, the CILs (Content Interaction Libraries) are namespace-unaware. This means that, in order to determine the namespace, the CILs need to check the value of theNamespaceelement in the Storage Layer configuration file, cd_storage_conf.xml. If you want to use the same CILs to connect to both Tridion Sites and Tridion Docs, you will need to set up two Content Service instances, each withNamespaceset to a different value. - Content Service API
An exhaustive list of the API for the Content Service, which is a partial implementation of the OData protocol. - Content Service Linking API
The separate Linking API of the Content Service gets HTML representations of the various types of links. The linking commands are exposed under the URL/linking/relative to the root of the Content Service. - Content Service call to get a link to a binary resource
A specific Content Service call can return you a public URL pointing to a binary resource. - Mapping Publication IDs to friendly URLs
By default, your Content Service calls refer to Publications by their IDs, not their website URLs. For your convenience, you can map a Publication ID to the URL of the site that the Publication ID represents, or to another property of the Publication. - Accessing the Content Service from Flash or Silverlight
When you access the Content Service from Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight, each of these technologies requires you to host a cross-domain policy file from your Web application server to make cross-domain access possible. - Integration with affiliate websites
The Content Service not only enables client-server communication within Content Delivery, it can also make distinct pieces of content of your website available to third parties.