The wsapi4plone.core (also known simply as wsapi4plone) package provides an XML-RPC API to Plone content and operations. One of the main goals is to provide a slim, versatile and extensive way to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) Plone content. The secondary goal is to provide an interface on which Plone and other systems can communicate with one another.
There are five known categories that the wsapi4plone is useful for:
The primary focus thus far has been on cross site communication (Plone to Plone communication), desktop applications (desktop authoring) and site migration (Plone import/export).
To install wsapi4plone simply add the following lines to your Plone instance declaration. The next time you start Zope the calls will be available. No further installation is required.
[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
...
eggs =
...
wsapi4plone.core
zcml =
...
wsapi4plone.core
Note
If you are using this package with Plone <= 3.3.x and wish to use plone.app.blob, you will likely need to do some additional version pinning within your buildout configuration. Add or extend your buildout to include the information in whitelist-3.3.x.cfg file provided with this package.