Introduction

SuperMap iPortal provides the REST-based Application Programming Interface ——SuperMap iPortal REST API, which encapsulates all the portal functions, such as map functions, service functions, scene functions, data functions, application functions, group functions, etc., for the client to get and use these portal functions through APIs.

For the usage of SuperMap iPortal REST API, see: REST API section. The REST API section includes all the provided REST services and resources, and has detailed introductions of each resource's usage, for example, the parameters to be passed and the corresponding response structure when accessing a specified resource.

To use SuperMap iPortal Rest API mainly includes three steps:

1， Query the SuperMap REST API help to determine to use which REST resource, and determine the parameters to be passed and the corresponding response structure;

2， Build the HTTP request to access the specified resource according to the determined resource URI and parameters in step 1;

3， Parse the response from the server to extract the needed information by referring to the response structure of the specified resource.