Is sorting of a collection returned by API possible? Adding thumbnail-urls possible?

The CMS Questions
1

I’m receiving a collection of child-pages currently via API:

/api/pages/lids/children/?limit=20&select=files,content,slug,title&page=1

This works fine. I would like to reverse the sorting, though. Is there a simple way to do that?

Also I’d like to add the thumbnail-URL to the “select=files”-objects. Maybe there’s a way I didn’t see.

2

The search endpoint has optional parameters for sorting the results: https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/api/pages/children-search

If you pass an empty string as search parameter, the complete collection is returned. Can’t find anything else that looks useful.

3

Thanks!
/api/pages/lids/children/search?q=
doesn’t return any results, unfortunately.

Adding an “a” to the q= works, but then I won’t get all results.

Also I can’t use “select” with search it seems.

Is there a way to define custom collections, like I can do in a template? Like saying for “/api/overview” I’d like to return all pages with the content, slug, and the first file’s thumbnail?

4

Since you can create your own custom API routes, you could make them behave exactly as you want.

5

Thanks! When I add a plugin like in the first example, suddenly all request (not only to /api) serve the index.php from the plugin-folder like it’s not being interpreted by php. I’m seeing the index.php source in the browser. What am I missing?

UPDATE:
Never mind I forgot <?php