Backendless API
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AI ReadinessFoundational (C)57/100
Official vendor OpenAPI document · agent-readyDeveloper ToolsMonitoring ObservabilityapiKey29 EndpointsREST
For Agents
Register users, query and mutate schemaless tables, upload files, publish messages, and increment counters on the Backendless BaaS platform.
Use for: Register a new user in my Backendless app, Log in an existing user and capture the session token, Find all objects in a Backendless data table, Upload a file to a Backendless storage path
Not supported: Does not handle payment processing, dedicated CRM, or hosted website builders - use for app backend persistence, auth, file storage, and messaging only.
Backendless is a Backend-as-a-Service platform that exposes a REST API covering user management, schemaless data persistence, file storage, messaging, push notifications, atomic counters, caching, and logging. The 29 documented endpoints group around /users, /data/{tableName}, /files, /messaging, /counters, /cache, and /logging, so a frontend or mobile client can hit one base URL for most backend needs. Custom business logic is invocable through /services/{serviceName}/{method}. Authentication is performed once at /users/login and then carried via a user-token header.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Backendless API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Backendless API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbackendless.com%2Fbackendless" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbackendless.com%2Fbackendless" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Backendless API.
Authenticate users via register, login, password restore, and logout flows
Query, insert, update, and delete schemaless objects per table with bulk variants
Upload, list, and delete files at arbitrary storage paths
Publish messages to named channels and send push notifications and transactional email
Increment atomic counters and read their current value for lightweight analytics
Read, write, and invalidate values in a managed key-value cache
Invoke custom server-side business logic through named services and methods
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Backendless API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Mobile App Backend
Use Backendless as the entire backend for an iOS or Android app: user signup and login via /users/register and /users/login, profile data in /data/Users, attachments in /files, and push notifications via /messaging/push. The schemaless data API means new fields can be added by clients without server migrations, accelerating feature delivery for small teams.
Register a user via POST /users/register, then upload a profile photo to /files/profiles/{userId}.jpg using the user-token from the login response.
Realtime Messaging and Notifications
Backendless supports server-to-client push notifications, channel-based messaging, and transactional email from a single API. POST /messaging/{channel} broadcasts a JSON message to subscribers, /messaging/push sends OS-level pushes, and /messaging/email sends a transactional email. This works as a lightweight alternative to wiring separate Firebase, Pusher, and SendGrid stacks.
Publish a JSON message to /messaging/orders announcing a new order, then call /messaging/push to alert the assigned delivery rider's device.
Counter and Cache for Lightweight Analytics
The atomic counter API at /counters/{counterName} and the cache API at /cache/{key} let agents and client apps maintain counts (page views, votes, leaderboard scores) and ephemeral key-value state without provisioning a Redis instance. PUT increments a counter; GET returns the current value. Cache entries support standard PUT/GET/DELETE.
Increment counter 'homepage_views' via PUT /counters/homepage_views, then GET the counter to confirm the new value.
AI Agent Integration via Jentic
An agent built on Jentic can use Backendless as its persistence layer: store conversation context in /data/Conversations, cache scratchpad state in /cache, and notify users by pushing through /messaging/push. Jentic isolates the user-token and REST API key in your Jentic One instance so the agent never holds raw credentials.
Search Jentic for 'create a backendless data object', load the schema for POST /data/{tableName}, and execute it with table 'AgentRuns' and a JSON payload of the run summary.
Key Endpoints
29 endpoints — backendless is a backend-as-a-service platform that exposes a rest api covering user management, schemaless data persistence, file storage, messaging, push notifications, atomic counters, caching, and logging.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
POST
/users/register
Register a new user
POST
/users/login
Log in a user and receive a session token
GET
/data/{tableName}
Find objects in a table
POST
/data/{tableName}
Create a data object
POST
/files/{filePath}
Upload a file
POST
/messaging/push
Send a push notification
POST
/messaging/email
Send a transactional email
PUT
/counters/{counterName}
Increment or decrement an atomic counter
POST
/users/register
Register a new user
POST
/users/login
Log in a user and receive a session token
GET
/data/{tableName}
Find objects in a table
POST
/data/{tableName}
Create a data object
POST
/files/{filePath}
Upload a file
POST
/messaging/push
Send a push notification
POST
/messaging/email
Send a transactional email
PUT
/counters/{counterName}
Increment or decrement an atomic counter
Jentic AI Readiness Score
This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use.
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Backendless API
- Foundational (C)57/100
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Foundational Compliance63
Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility49
AI-Readiness & Agent Experience94
Agent Usability50
Security51
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Foundational Compliance
Base layer of spec validity and structural soundness.
Grade: D+Signals: 4
95%
Lint Results
Aggregated quality score from linter diagnostics, weighted by severity.
100%
Resolution Completeness
Percentage of `$ref` references that resolve successfully.
0%
Specification Validity
Checks whether the API description parses successfully and conforms to its declared specification (e.g., OpenAPI).
0%
Structural Integrity
Structural correctness score based on schema issues using logarithmic dampening.
63
Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility
Clarity, completeness, and ingestion readiness for developers and tooling.
Grade: B-Signals: 4
0%
Example Density
How richly the API is illustrated with examples.
100%
Example Validity
Percentage of examples that conform to their schemas.
50%
Response Coverage
Percentage of operations with complete response definitions (success, client error, server error).
100%
Tooling Readiness
Health of API ingestion, bundling, and resolution within Jentic pipelines.
49
AI-Readiness & Agent Experience
Semantic breadth, depth, and agent comprehension for AI systems.
Grade: D+Signals: 4
38%
Description Coverage
Coverage of descriptions across API elements.
0%
Error Standardization
Coverage of RFC 9457 Problem Details for error responses.
97%
OperationId Quality
Coverage, uniqueness, and casing consistency of operationIds for AI inference.
62%
Summary Coverage
Coverage of summaries across operations/tags/info.
94
Agent Usability
Functional utility, complexity comfort, and AI orchestration readiness.
Grade: A+Signals: 1
94%
Complexity Comfort
Agent comfort level based on API operational and structural complexity.
50
Security
Trust, risk posture, and security compliance.
Grade: C-Signals: 1
50%
Authentication Strength
Average quality of security schemes based on authentication method strength (weakest link for OAuth2).
51
AI Discoverability
Findability, semantic richness, and reasoning readiness.
Grade: C-Signals: 1
51%
Descriptive Richness
Clarity and depth of descriptions across API elements.
Score it yourself
Every API in the directory is allowlisted, so you can re-score it with no key required.
npx @jentic/api-scorecard-cli score <openapi-url>Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring Backendless by hand means embedding the application id and REST API key into the base URL, running the /users/login call, and threading the returned user-token header through every subsequent request across /users, /data, /files, and /messaging. Through Jentic you install once, import the Backendless API from the API Directory, store the REST API key and user-token once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
Backendless puts the target in the URL path for many operations (/data/{tableName}, /files/{filePath}, /counters/{counterName}), so a rule can pin your agent to one table or path: it can read and write that table and nothing else. You choose the operations it may call, so destructive ones like DELETE on /data/{tableName} are not included unless you add them.
Credential isolation
Your Backendless REST API key and user-token are stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. They never enter the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'register a user' or 'send a push notification', and Jentic returns the matching Backendless operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing /users, /data, /files, and /messaging separately.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Backendless API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Backendless API use?
Per-request authentication is via the user-token header (apiKey scheme). The application-id and REST API key are embedded in the base URL https://api.backendless.com/{application-id}/{REST-api-key}. The user-token is obtained from POST /users/login. Through Jentic, both the REST key and user-token are stored encrypted and never reach the agent's context.
Can I create many records at once with the Backendless API?
Yes. Bulk endpoints exist: POST /data/bulk/{tableName} to create, PUT /data/bulk/{tableName} to update, and DELETE /data/bulk/{tableName} to delete in batches. Use the single-object endpoints under /data/{tableName} for one-at-a-time operations.
What are the rate limits for the Backendless API?
Rate limits are not declared in the OpenAPI spec. Backendless enforces limits per pricing plan; consult https://backendless.com/docs/rest/ and your plan dashboard before high-volume bulk operations.
How do I send a push notification through Jentic?
Search Jentic for 'send a backendless push notification', load the schema for POST /messaging/push, then execute with the device segment and notification payload. Jentic injects the REST API key and user-token at execution time so the agent never sees them.
Does Backendless support file storage?
Yes. POST /files/{filePath} uploads a file at the chosen path, GET /files/{directoryPath} lists files in a directory, and DELETE /files/{filePath} removes a file. There is no separate object-storage service to provision.
Can I run custom server-side logic through this API?
Yes. Backendless supports custom business logic services. Invoke them via POST /services/{serviceName}/{method} with the parameters expected by your custom service. This is how you extend the platform beyond the built-in CRUD.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Backendless API?
Yes. Because you run your own self-hosted Jentic One instance, your rules decide which Backendless operations and credentials the agent may use. Since Backendless puts the target in the URL path, you can pin the agent to a single table, file path, or counter, such as read and write on /data/{tableName} while excluding it from every other table. You choose the operations it can call, so destructive ones like DELETE on /data/{tableName} are never available unless you explicitly add them.
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