For Agents
Register users, query and mutate schemaless tables, upload files, publish messages, and increment counters on the Backendless BaaS platform.
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# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
"jentic": {
"url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
"auth": "oauth"
}
}
# Then ask your agent:
"register a user on backendless"
# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.What an agent can do with Backendless API 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
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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.
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
Patterns agents use Backendless API 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 MAXsystem 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.
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
/users/register
Register a new user
/users/login
Log in a user and receive a session token
/data/{tableName}
Find objects in a table
/data/{tableName}
Create a data object
/files/{filePath}
Upload a file
/messaging/push
Send a push notification
/messaging/email
Send a transactional email
/counters/{counterName}
Increment or decrement an atomic counter
/users/register
Register a new user
/users/login
Log in a user and receive a session token
/data/{tableName}
Find objects in a table
/data/{tableName}
Create a data object
/files/{filePath}
Upload a file
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
Backendless application-id, REST API key, and user-token are all stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem). Agents receive scoped operation handles; raw keys never enter agent context or logs.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic with intents like '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, /messaging separately.
Time to first call
Direct Backendless integration: 1-2 days to wire login, token refresh, and resource calls. Through Jentic: under an hour — search for the intent, load the schema, execute.
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
Bagisto
E-commerce platform that could use Backendless for ancillary mobile features
Pair with Bagisto when the storefront ships a companion mobile app that needs lightweight push, counters, or cache.
Expertease apis
Chatbot backend that can persist conversation context in Backendless tables
Use ExpertEase for the chatbot brain and Backendless for app-side persistence and notifications.
balldontlie
A read-only sports data API; not a BaaS, but illustrates simple REST data access
Choose Backendless when you need full CRUD plus auth and storage; choose balldontlie only for read-only NBA data.
Specific to using Backendless API 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.
/messaging/push
Send a push notification
/messaging/email
Send a transactional email
/counters/{counterName}
Increment or decrement an atomic counter