What is the proper way to set up API endpoints for usage with Keystone?

Question

It's not clear in the docs how one would use existing Keystone models to expose API endpoints that return json within a Keystone.js app. I would simply like to be able expose REST API endpoints with Keystone and be able to use the Keystone CMS capabilities to manage content via interacting with those endpoints. Thanks!

Answer 1

Now that they've standardized the admin API I found that it's pretty trivial to use the same methods. For my read only APIs that are powering my react app I've done put something like this in my routes/index.js

router.get('/api/:list/:format(export.csv|export.json)',middleware.initList,require('keystone/admin/server/api/list/download'));

And I've made my own version of the admin initList middleware:

exports.initList = function(req, res, next) {
  console.log('req.keystone', req.keystone);
  req.keystone = keystone;
  req.list = keystone.list(req.params.list);
  if (!req.list) {
    if (req.headers.accept === 'application/json') {
      return res.status(404).json({ error: 'invalid list path' });
    }
    req.flash('error', 'List ' + req.params.list + ' could not be found.');
  }
  next();
};