Recommended way to do integration

It seems that I am going in circles, first I thought I would use the headless/rest API but then after thinking about it further it seems maybe not the right approach.

I want to achieve the following:

• Central place to add/edit/manage pages/sites
• Have multiple .NET Core sites consume this data

Steps

1. Create a Piranha CMS with Manager using SQL Server, and ASP.NET Identity (using for satisfied step 1 above), will refer to this site as MyCore
2. Add a site (default site at this point) called MyCoreSite

Approach 1: Integration

1. Start a new .NET Core Razor Project - MyConsumer
2. Add Piranha.AspNetCore nuget package to MyConsumer
3. Add stuff to startup.cs (not really sure how much stuff is needed given this is only a consumer)
4. Point the EF to same database as MyCore
5. Add all copy/paste \Pages\DsiplayTemplates from MyCore to MyConsumer
6. Add a razor page to MyConsumer that has IApi injected
7. Get pages using the Api based on which page I want
8. Render the pages

Approach 2: Headless/REST

1. Start a new .NET Core Razor Project - MyConsumer
2. Add Piranha.WebApi to MyCore so enabling headless calls, call .UseApi
3. Add Piranha.AspNetCore nuget package to MyConsumer, this is done so de-serialization of REST is made easy, otherwise I would have to create custom classes that match the result of the REST Calls
4. Start making calls to MyCore using REST, render pages which requires a lot of manual work as a lot of stuff is not available that makes it easy to render pages (I assume).

It seems that integration is the way to go but I am not entirely sure.

I wish there was an example of both of these scenarios provided so it is 100% clear on what is required for both scenarios. I am sure a lot of people would find it useful.

[tidyui]

@dinukasal If you can’t resolve IApi or IDb you haven’t called services.AddPiranha(..) in your ConfigureServices. Take a look at this page for documentation, or the entire Basics section if you’re new to Piranha. https://piranhacms.org/docs/basics/application-setup

Best regards

[bbqchickenrobot]

@dinukasal Did you ever get this resolved ?