edX Contents API

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List of APIs related to external content (edX)

Update external content

  1. To update details for the external content added in a module.

Try it

Request

Request URL

Request headers

  • (optional)
    string
    Media type of the body sent to the API.
  • string
    Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

The information of the external contents to be edited

{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "publish": true,
  "uuid": "string",
  "url": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "remarks": "string",
  "source": "string",
  "owner": "string",
  "type": "string"
}
{
  "description": "HTTP Post Input class when updating ExternalContent",
  "required": [
    "id",
    "name",
    "publish",
    "url",
    "uuid"
  ],
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "ID of the ExternalContent",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
      "description": "the name/title of the item",
      "maxLength": 500,
      "minLength": 0,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "publish": {
      "description": "the publish flag which determine whether the resource is published to students.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "uuid": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "External Content ID",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "ExternalContent URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Description",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "remarks": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Remarks/Instructions",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source": {
      "description": "Source of contents. edX, etc.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "owner": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Owner/Institution",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Type",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}
{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "publish": true,
  "uuid": "string",
  "url": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "remarks": "string",
  "source": "string",
  "owner": "string",
  "type": "string"
}
{
  "description": "HTTP Post Input class when updating ExternalContent",
  "required": [
    "id",
    "name",
    "publish",
    "url",
    "uuid"
  ],
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "ID of the ExternalContent",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
      "description": "the name/title of the item",
      "maxLength": 500,
      "minLength": 0,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "publish": {
      "description": "the publish flag which determine whether the resource is published to students.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "uuid": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "External Content ID",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "ExternalContent URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Description",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "remarks": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Remarks/Instructions",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source": {
      "description": "Source of contents. edX, etc.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "owner": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Owner/Institution",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Type",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}
{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "publish": true,
  "uuid": "string",
  "url": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "remarks": "string",
  "source": "string",
  "owner": "string",
  "type": "string"
}
{
  "description": "HTTP Post Input class when updating ExternalContent",
  "required": [
    "id",
    "name",
    "publish",
    "url",
    "uuid"
  ],
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "ID of the ExternalContent",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
      "description": "the name/title of the item",
      "maxLength": 500,
      "minLength": 0,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "publish": {
      "description": "the publish flag which determine whether the resource is published to students.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "uuid": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "External Content ID",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "ExternalContent URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Description",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "remarks": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Remarks/Instructions",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source": {
      "description": "Source of contents. edX, etc.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "owner": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Owner/Institution",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Type",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}
{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "publish": true,
  "uuid": "string",
  "url": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "remarks": "string",
  "source": "string",
  "owner": "string",
  "type": "string"
}
{
  "description": "HTTP Post Input class when updating ExternalContent",
  "required": [
    "id",
    "name",
    "publish",
    "url",
    "uuid"
  ],
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "ID of the ExternalContent",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
      "description": "the name/title of the item",
      "maxLength": 500,
      "minLength": 0,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "publish": {
      "description": "the publish flag which determine whether the resource is published to students.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "uuid": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "External Content ID",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "ExternalContent URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Description",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "remarks": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Remarks/Instructions",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source": {
      "description": "Source of contents. edX, etc.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "owner": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Owner/Institution",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Type",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}

Responses

200 OK

The updated [API_ExternalLinks.API.ExternalContent] record

Representations

{
  "description": "generic externallink",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "identifier",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "createdDate": {
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The date this record is created",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorID": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the ID of the user who created this record",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lastUpdatedDate": {
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "the date this record is edited last time",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lastUpdatedBy": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the ID of the user who edited this record last time",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
      "description": "the name/title of the content",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "publish": {
      "description": "the publish flag which determine whether the resource is published to students.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "parentID": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the parent content ID if any. For those contents which do not have a parent content, the parent ID value will be the same as the ID.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "resourceID": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the ID of the resource which this content belongs to.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "hitCount": {
      "format": "int32",
      "description": "Hit count of the externalcontent",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "uuid": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "External Content ID",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Enrollment URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "imageUrl": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Image URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Description",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "remarks": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Remarks/Instructions",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "owner": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Owner/Institution",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Type",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source": {
      "description": "Source of contents.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorUserID": {
      "description": "User ID of the Creator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorName": {
      "description": "Name of the Creator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorEmail": {
      "description": "Email of the Creator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "updatorUserID": {
      "description": "User ID of the Updator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "updatorName": {
      "description": "Name of the Updator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "updatorEmail": {
      "description": "Email of the Updator",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}
{
  "id": "string",
  "createdDate": "string",
  "creatorID": "string",
  "lastUpdatedDate": "string",
  "lastUpdatedBy": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "publish": true,
  "parentID": "string",
  "resourceID": "string",
  "hitCount": 0,
  "uuid": "string",
  "url": "string",
  "imageUrl": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "remarks": "string",
  "owner": "string",
  "type": "string",
  "source": "string",
  "creatorUserID": "string",
  "creatorName": "string",
  "creatorEmail": "string",
  "updatorUserID": "string",
  "updatorName": "string",
  "updatorEmail": "string"
}
{
  "description": "generic externallink",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "identifier",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "createdDate": {
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The date this record is created",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorID": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the ID of the user who created this record",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lastUpdatedDate": {
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "the date this record is edited last time",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lastUpdatedBy": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the ID of the user who edited this record last time",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
      "description": "the name/title of the content",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "publish": {
      "description": "the publish flag which determine whether the resource is published to students.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "parentID": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the parent content ID if any. For those contents which do not have a parent content, the parent ID value will be the same as the ID.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "resourceID": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the ID of the resource which this content belongs to.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "hitCount": {
      "format": "int32",
      "description": "Hit count of the externalcontent",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "uuid": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "External Content ID",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Enrollment URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "imageUrl": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Image URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Description",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "remarks": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Remarks/Instructions",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "owner": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Owner/Institution",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Type",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source": {
      "description": "Source of contents.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorUserID": {
      "description": "User ID of the Creator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorName": {
      "description": "Name of the Creator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorEmail": {
      "description": "Email of the Creator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "updatorUserID": {
      "description": "User ID of the Updator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "updatorName": {
      "description": "Name of the Updator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "updatorEmail": {
      "description": "Email of the Updator",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}
{
  "id": "string",
  "createdDate": "string",
  "creatorID": "string",
  "lastUpdatedDate": "string",
  "lastUpdatedBy": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "publish": true,
  "parentID": "string",
  "resourceID": "string",
  "hitCount": 0,
  "uuid": "string",
  "url": "string",
  "imageUrl": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "remarks": "string",
  "owner": "string",
  "type": "string",
  "source": "string",
  "creatorUserID": "string",
  "creatorName": "string",
  "creatorEmail": "string",
  "updatorUserID": "string",
  "updatorName": "string",
  "updatorEmail": "string"
}
{
  "description": "generic externallink",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "identifier",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "createdDate": {
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The date this record is created",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorID": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the ID of the user who created this record",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lastUpdatedDate": {
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "the date this record is edited last time",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lastUpdatedBy": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the ID of the user who edited this record last time",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
      "description": "the name/title of the content",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "publish": {
      "description": "the publish flag which determine whether the resource is published to students.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "parentID": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the parent content ID if any. For those contents which do not have a parent content, the parent ID value will be the same as the ID.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "resourceID": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "the ID of the resource which this content belongs to.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "hitCount": {
      "format": "int32",
      "description": "Hit count of the externalcontent",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "uuid": {
      "format": "uuid",
      "description": "External Content ID",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Enrollment URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "imageUrl": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Image URL",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Description",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "remarks": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Remarks/Instructions",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "owner": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Owner/Institution",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "ExternalContent Type",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source": {
      "description": "Source of contents.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorUserID": {
      "description": "User ID of the Creator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorName": {
      "description": "Name of the Creator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "creatorEmail": {
      "description": "Email of the Creator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "updatorUserID": {
      "description": "User ID of the Updator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "updatorName": {
      "description": "Name of the Updator",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "updatorEmail": {
      "description": "Email of the Updator",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}

400 Bad Request

Bad Request

Representations

{
  "type": "string"
}
string
{
  "type": "string"
}
string
{
  "type": "string"
}

403 Forbidden

Login user not authorized to perform this action

Representations

{
  "type": "string"
}
string
{
  "type": "string"
}
string
{
  "type": "string"
}

404 Not Found

Record is not found

Representations

{
  "type": "string"
}
string
{
  "type": "string"
}
string
{
  "type": "string"
}

500 Internal Server Error

Server Error

Representations

{
  "type": "string"
}
string
{
  "type": "string"
}
string
{
  "type": "string"
}

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X PUT "https://luminus.azure-api.net/ExternalLinks/ExternalContent"
-H "Content-Type: application/json-patch+json"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}" 

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");

            var uri = "https://luminus.azure-api.net/ExternalLinks/ExternalContent?" + queryString;

            HttpResponseMessage response;

            // Request body
            byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");

            using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
            {
                content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
                response = await client.PutAsync(uri, content);
            }
        }
    }
}	
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://luminus.azure-api.net/ExternalLinks/ExternalContent");


            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpPut request = new HttpPut(uri);
            request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json-patch+json");
            request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://luminus.azure-api.net/ExternalLinks/ExternalContent?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json-patch+json");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "PUT",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://luminus.azure-api.net/ExternalLinks/ExternalContent";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"PUT"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"application/json-patch+json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://luminus.azure-api.net/ExternalLinks/ExternalContent');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json-patch+json',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_PUT);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': 'application/json-patch+json',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('luminus.azure-api.net')
    conn.request("PUT", "/ExternalLinks/ExternalContent?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': 'application/json-patch+json',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('luminus.azure-api.net')
    conn.request("PUT", "/ExternalLinks/ExternalContent?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://luminus.azure-api.net/ExternalLinks/ExternalContent')


request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json-patch+json'
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body