Countries list is a REST service that gives access to an ISO-3166 formatted list of world countries. It is useful when presenting a country options list from any application.
To send a GET request to the REST API Countries list, you have to provide the Content Type header application/vnd.ez.api.CountriesList+xml.
Note that cache request headers can be added but those aren't fully implemented yet in eZ Publish 5.0.
Resource: /api/ezp/v2/services/countries Method: GET Content-Type: application/vnd.ez.api.CountriesList+xml |
See the General REST usage documentation page for further information.
GET /api/ezp/v2/services/countries Host: example.com Accept: application/vnd.ez.api.CountriesList+xml |
The HTTP response will it be with a 200 OK Header.
HTTP/1.1 200 Content-Type: application/vnd.ez.api.CountriesList+xml |
And the body of the Response is XML formatted country list with names and codes according to the ISO-3166 standard.
The country codes can be represented either as a two-letter code (alpha-2) which is recommended as the general purpose code, a three-letter code (alpha-3) which is more closely related to the country name and a three digit numeric code (numeric-3) which can be useful if you need to avoid using Latin script. |
<CountriesList>
<Country id="AF">
<name>Afghanistan</name
<alpha2>AF</alpha2>
<alpha3>AFG</alpha3>
<idc>93</idc>
</Country>
<Country id="AX">
<name>Åland</name
<alpha2>AX</alpha2>
<alpha3>ALA</alpha3>
<idc>358</idc>
</Country>
...
</CountriesList> |