Gathering SharePoint 2010 REST data with

JavaScript/JQuery

Craig PilkentonSharePoint Engineer

Intro and BackgroundIntro and BackgroundCraig PilkentonFinancial Partners, Inc.craig.pilkenton@financialpartners.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/craigpilkenton

•SharePoint Engineer•Senior SharePoint Consultant at EMC Consulting•SharePoint Engineer at MassMutual•Working with SharePoint since it was a beta product in 2000 (Tahoe)

•Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist o (SharePoint 2010/2007)

What is REST in What is REST in SharePoint?SharePoint?

• Representational State Transfer plus HTTP can be thought of as The Web itself

• A client can either be in transition between application states or "at rest“, able to interact with its user, but creates no load and consumes no per-client storage

• Fully-realized, it is oData (Open Data Protocol): REST + AtomPub + Modeling + URI Semantics

What does it look like?What does it look like?• It looks like RSS feeds, which is just XML!!• Try this yourself:

http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog/Titles?$top=1

So how do we access it?So how do we access it?• For SharePoint 2010, we change our URL’s to

access the always-on serviceo http://z04-w1:50000/Examples/_vti_bin/ListData.svc/

Get to the Demo!!Get to the Demo!!

ResourcesResources• NothingButSharePoint.com:

o REST APIs

• Scott Currier’s Blog:o REST and SharePoint 2010 Quick Start Guide

• WCF Data Services Quick Starto http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ee720180

• Using Microsoft ADO.NET Data Serviceso http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc907912.aspx

Craig Pilkenton, Financial Partners, Inc.craig.pilkenton@financialpartners.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/craigpilkenton