Programmatic Ingestion: The MediaItem API

While most customers may want to use RSS or FTP input feeds to ingest content into yospaceCDS, the MediaItem API allows for a more flexible type of integration with an upstream content management system.  Using this API, developers can programmatically ingest content into yospaceCDS in an unstructured manner. This is useful if you are integrating yospaceCDS into an application that wants to take full responsibility of determining the content organisation. 

The MediaItem API is implemented through a Web Services interface and provides your application the ability to:

• Create new MediaItem (video or audio) objects within yospaceCDS
• Check the status in terms of availability to the end user of a given MediaItem
• Delete MediaItem objects from yospaceCDS
• Set and Update standard and extended Metadata values associated with a MediaItem

Retrieving Content

The MediaItem API deals exclusively with the submission and removal of content in yospaceCDS. Once you have put content into yospaceCDS via the MediaItem API, you will be given a MediaItem ID. To construct a URL that can be accessed by mobile devices to play the video, you will construct Access URLs. To do this you will need to understand the Access URL Syntax.

Accessing the Web Services APIs

The Web Service APIs described in this document are available from:

http://cds1.yospace.com/mediaitemmanager/manage

To access the Web Service using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security, change the http scheme to https. The WSDL for the Web Service APIs, which may be required for Web Services frameworks such as Java's CXF, is available from:

http://cds1.yospace.com/mediaitemmanager/manage?wsdl