Service Attachments

What was needed ?
• Finding videos, photos, restaurants, ... on
third party webservices
• Youtube
• Flickr
• Wikipedia
• Resto.be
• ....

What was developed ?
• “Framework”
• Define a service and its parameters
• Define how to query a service for a
“keyword” (one request only!)
• Multiple “candidates” per node.

Example : Wikipedia

Defining service

Defining request

Walkthrough

Run parameters

Service without options

Service with options

Blacklisting candidates

Per content type
settings

Candidates

Results found

How flexible is this ?

Media service (1)
Problem:
Gathering more info on nodes from RSS
feeds.
Newspapers, magazines, blogs, ...

Media service (2)
• Solution
• Second site(uhm... drupal)
• feed_aggregator (contributed module!!!)
• service_attachments
• OpenSearch Feed (contributed module!!!)
• hook_service_attachments

Related nodes
• Find relations between nodes
• Define a service that does a query via
drupal search
• So it’s not limited to remote services