WOPI REST endpoints

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A WOPI host needs to provide some information about the files it stores, as well as the binary contents of those files. Because WOPI is a REST-based callback interface, this information is provided via specific URLs. A WOPI host provides a small REST API around its files. WOPI clients such as Office for the web then use those REST API to work with the files.

Not all operations and endpoints are required. All actions require the CheckFileInfo and GetFile operations.

Each WOPI endpoint supports a number of operations specified by the caller in the X-WOPI-Override request header. Parameters for each operation are also passed in HTTP headers, which all begin with X-WOPI-. This way, executing a WOPI operation is as simple as issuing a request to the appropriate REST endpoint and passing appropriate HTTP header values with the request.

Note

Standard WOPI request and response headers

Endpoint URLs

All WOPI host endpoints must be located at a URL that starts with /wopi. For example, all of the following URLs are valid URLs for the File contents endpoint for a file with the ID abc123:

  • https://api.contoso.com/modules/wopi/files/abc123/contents
  • https://test.wopi.contoso.com/wopi_test/files/abc123/contents

However, the following URLs are not valid:

  • https://api.contoso.com/api_wopi/files/abc123/contents (invalid because the endpoint URL does not start with /wopi)
  • https://api.contoso.com/files/abc123/contents (invalid because the endpoint URL does not start with /wopi)
  • https://test.wopi.contoso.com/officeonline/files/abc123/contents (invalid because the endpoint URL does not start with /wopi)
  • https://wopi.contoso.com/wopi/files/ids/abc123/contents (invalid because the endpoint URL contains /ids, which is not permitted)

Files endpoint

The Files endpoint provides access to file-level operations.

URL

/wopi/files/(file_id)

The following operations are exposed through this endpoint:

File contents endpoint

The File contents endpoint provides access to retrieve and update the contents of a file.

URL

/wopi/files/(file_id)/contents

The following operations are exposed through this endpoint:

Containers endpoint

URL

/wopi/containers/(container_id)

The following operations are exposed through this endpoint:

Ecosystem endpoint

The Ecosystem endpoint serves as a bridge for WOPI clients that do not have a File or Container ID that they are operating on.

URL

/wopi/ecosystem

The following operations are exposed through this endpoint:

Bootstrapper endpoint

The following operations are exposed through this endpoint: