Article

An article represents a piece of content created in the content management system. Different types of content like text or video articles share the same message structure, they can be distinguished by the Article.Type field. Text articles (type = Article.Type.ARTICLE) also have Article.SubType to differentiate its purpose and form.

Teaser

To improve performance of database access and during network transmission tapir is using a lightweight representation of Article in some places.

Depending on the service used to retrieve an article, the Article message might only contain data required on section pages:

Article.body set to null
Article.elements filtered by Element.relations to only contain TEASER, but neither OPENER nor SOCIAL

Thus, not containing any data that is only required on detail pages. This lightweight representation is sometimes referred to as Teaser.

Field name	Type	Description
`id`	`int64`	Unique ID of the article defined by the content management system (required).
`type`	`Type`	Main content type of the article (required). See list of supported [`ContentType`][ct]
`sub_type`	`SubType`	Subtype of the article. For `ARTICLE` this field holds a `sub_type`, for others like `GALLERY` it may not.
`section_tree`	`Reference`	Hierarchical section tree information of the article (required).
`fields`	`map<string, string>`	Generic map containing general content and configuration information of the article (required). See `fields`
`bodies`	`repeated` `Body`	Recursive textual body of the article to be rendered on detail pages. May be `null` for Teaser.
`metadata`	`Metadata`	The articles Metadata, containing state and various timestamps.
`elements`	`repeated` `Element`	`Element`s required to render the teaser, such as `IMAGE`, `VIDEO` or `AUTHOR`
`keywords`	`repeated` `Keyword`	Extracted keywords from the article body like persons, locations, organizations etc.
`onwards`	`int64`	IDs of articles related to this article. Related articles are defined manually in the content management system by the editorial department.
`variants`	`map<string, Article>`	Variants of this article, e.g. for headline testing.
`entities`	`string` `[deprecated]`	Extracted entities from the article body like persons, locations, organizations etc. `deprecated` — use `keywords` instead.
`authors`	`repeated` `Author`	Authors and or Agencies ƒor this content
`related_articles`	`repeated Article`	Editorial articles, which are related to the main article. May only be an empty unresolved article (not all services will resolve these).


message Article {
int64 id = 1;
Type type = 2;
SubType sub_type = 3;
stroeer.core.v1.Reference section_tree = 4;
map<string, string> fields = 5;
repeated Body bodies = 6;
Metadata metadata = 7;
repeated Element elements = 8;
repeated Keyword keywords = 9;
repeated int64 onwards = 10 [deprecated = true];
map<string, Article> variants = 11;
repeated Author authors = 12;
repeated Article related_articles = 13;
repeated string entities = 100 [deprecated = true];

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`fields`

The entry set is defined by the content management system and will vary depending on the main type of the article.

⚠ Clients must be resilient to unknown or missing entries. ⚠

For `Article.Type.ARTICLE`

this map will contain the following data:

key	mandatory	description
`headline`	*	the headline for this content
`top_line`	*	"dachzeile"
`ref_path`	*	URL path for this article e.g. `/${section_tree}/id_${id}/${title}.html`
`ref_canonical`	*	Canonical URL of this article, may differ if external, e.g. https://www.example.com/external.html
`summary`		summary for this content
`teaser_text`		used on teasers, overrides `summary`
`meta_robots`
`social_headline`		used for social markup, overrides `headline`
`headline_short`		used for "Schlagzeilen", overrides `headline`
`meta_title`		HTML `<meta title>`
`expert_line`
`social_description`
`meta_description`		HTML `<meta description>`
`reading_time_minutes`		estimated reading time in minutes
`flag:hidden`		this content must be excluded from automated curations (CMS: `no auto-content`/`manuell kuratieren`)

For `Article.Type.GALLERY`

this map will contain the following data:

key	mandatory	description
`headline`	*	the headline for this content

`enum Type`

Enum value	Description
`TYPE_UNSPECIFIED`	unspecified
`ARTICLE`	A text article, usually sub typed
`IMAGE`	`[deprecated]` An image article, unused, deprecated
`VIDEO`	A video article, contains HLS-videos, as well as external live str
`GALLERY`	A gallery article
`EMBED`	An embed article including an oembed or edge_side_include element
`AUTHOR`	An author article, currently not implemented
`AGENCY`	`[deprecated]` An agency article, unused, deprecated
`EXTERNAL`	An external article (teaser-like external article)
`INTERNAL`	Used for internal purposes only.


enum Type {
TYPE_UNSPECIFIED = 0;
ARTICLE = 1;
IMAGE = 2 [deprecated = true];
VIDEO = 3;
GALLERY = 4;
EMBED = 5;
AUTHOR = 6;
AGENCY = 7 [deprecated = true];
EXTERNAL = 8;
INTERNAL = 100;
}

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`enum SubType`

Content with Type.ARTICLE is usually sub typed to alter its form and purpose.

Enum value	Description
`SUB_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED`	unspecified
`NEWS`	Meldung/Nachricht — this is the default
`COLUMN`	Kolumne
`COMMENTARY`	Kommentar
`INTERVIEW`	Interview
`CONTROVERSY`	Pro und Kontra/Streitgespräch
`TAGESANBRUCH`	Tagesanbruch
`EVERGREEN`	Evergreen
`AGENCY_IMPORT`	Content originally imported from agency/tickers by the CMS
`ADVERTORIAL`	Advertorial
`QUIZ`	Quiz
`GAME`	(Browser)Game
`COMPLIANCE`	Internal company articles like an imprint or contact forms
`RECIPE`	Cooking recipe


enum SubType {
SUB_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED = 0;
NEWS = 1;
COLUMN = 2;
COMMENTARY = 3;
INTERVIEW = 4;
CONTROVERSY = 5;
TAGESANBRUCH = 6;
EVERGREEN = 7;
AGENCY_IMPORT = 8;
ADVERTORIAL = 9;
QUIZ = 10;
GAME = 11;
COMPLIANCE = 12;
RECIPE = 13;
}

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tapir

Article

Teaser

fields

For Article.Type.ARTICLE

For Article.Type.GALLERY

enum Type

enum SubType

`fields`

For `Article.Type.ARTICLE`

For `Article.Type.GALLERY`

`enum Type`

`enum SubType`