Sitecore Web Service

The Sitecore service layer is based on web services. It is useful when the developer wants to use Sitecore as a repository for his site content.

Sitecore provides two sets of web services:

• Visual Sitecore Service (Good Old Web Service) at /sitecore/shell/WebService/service.asmx
• Sitecore Web Service 2 (Hard Rock Web Service) at /sitecore/shell/WebService/service2.asmx

Some of the methods purposes are:

Method Name	Purpose
AddFromMaster	To create and item under master item.
AddFromTemplate	To create and item of specified template type.
AddVersion	To create new version of item.
CopyTo	To create copy of existing item.
Delete	To delete and item.
DeleteChildren	To delete children of the specified item.
GetChildren	To retrieve children of item.
GetDatabases	To return list of the database names .
GetItemFields	To returns a list of the fields that this item contains.
GetItemMasters	To return master of the item
GetLanguages	To returns a list of the languages that are set for the entire site.
GetTemplates	To returns a list of the templates in the site.
GetXML	To returns the XML representation of an item.
MoveTo	To move the item under different parent
Rename	To Rename an item
InsertXML	To insert item based on representation
Save	To updates the item based on the representation
VerifyCredentials	To validate user authorization.