Nextcloud exposes some APIs to the outside works over HTTP. There is of cou rse our webdav endpoint. That, among other things, allows you to retrieve and store your files or update your calendar. Probably our second most used endpoint is the OCS Share API. This is used by a lot of clients that connect to your Nextcloud to share files. As the name suggest this is an OCS (Open-Collaboration-Services) API of which we have a few.

The OCS API has been around for quite some time now. And it was in need for some love. Which is why I am glad to announce that starting from Nextcloud 11 you can build OCS API endpoints using our AppFramework.

This brings a lot of improvements. Some examples:

• Automatic dependency injection: This makes writing code much more fun. Your Controllers just specify that is required and most of the time the AppFramework will figure out how and where to get the dependencies.
• Security by default: By default, a lot of security hardenings are in place. You can opt out of some (like for public routes). But this makes it harder to mess up.
• No more static classes: This will make it easier and faster to test your classes.

And of course this also means your API will directly benefit from enhancements we make in the AppFramework.

We will of course still support the current approach to create OCS API endpoints for the foreseeable future. Feel free to reach out to us on help.nextcloud.com if you need help.