Introduction to REST API
REST was chosen as an interface to expose Planon data to other external applications for several reasons. The goal is to offer an Enterprise Application Integration solution to enable integration with external applications.
So, firstly, the solution needs to be:
• An industry standard.
• Secure, light-weight, scalable.
• Able to handle large amounts of data.
• Also, it should not be necessary for customers to implement custom Planon plugins (PaaP Apps) to solve integrations problems.
Security is handled through the standard Planon authentication and authorization functionality. In addition, only Business Objects and fields are exposed that are configured to be exposed in the REST API. As a result, for security reasons, the REST API is not supported on un-authorizable business objects.