An introduction to Business Central APIs
In this section, we will learn more about Business Central APIs and what they are. This knowledge is essential when we talk about building solutions that are low code or no code and connect to Business Central.
Microsoft provides APIs out of the box to extend Business Central, which allows you to interact with Business Central functionalities. These are built on ODATA web services that allow you to build solutions to call restful APIs. In Business Central, you can create new APIs that call a Query or Page object. We will explore how to do this in the next section.
APIs allow you to read, create and update data in the following ways:
- To get data: Send a
GETrequest to the API URL - To create new records: Use a
POSTmethod - To update a record: Use a
PUTmethod - To delete a record: Use a
DELETEmethod
The APIs out of the box cover several areas across Business Central, such as Finance, Sales, Customers, Items, and Purchasing...
