Pega APIs and services

You can use the Pega APIs to power client and mobile apps by using built-in Pega REST/JSON services. Pega APIs provie an extensive set of APIs tomanage and interact with all aspects of your application, such as cases, assignments, and so on. The APIs are secured by user credentials and TLS/SSL. You must switch from App Studio to Dev Studio to configure security for the Pega API, which is the api service package.

To browse the Pega API, you must have the PegaRULES:PegaAPI role. In addition, some APIs require your access role to have specific privileges before you can use the API.

You can view detailed information about APIs by using the API channel. In the APIs, you can perform the following actions:

List parameters
View the JSON data model for each resource
Test an API by clicking Try it out! to view the actual request URL, response body, response code, and response headers