Drupal as a Web Services Platform

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A high level overview of what it means to provide web services, what REST is, why meaningful URLs are important, and how to implement REST services in Drupal.

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Drupal as a Web Services Platform — Presentation Transcript

Drupal as a WebServices Platform Do It With Drupal 2011 Greg Dunlap - @heyrocker B.J. Wilson -- @

Who Am I?

What do we mean by Web Services Platform?

Mobile app

LegacyMobile app integration

LegacyMobile app integration Partners

LegacyMobile app integration Partners SSO/LDAP/etc

What are webservices exactly?

RequestResponse http://oreilly.com/catalog/progwebsoap/chapter/ch03.html

Request http://example.com/helloResponse {"response":"OHAI!"}

Request http://example.com/user/heyrockerResponse { uid: "2" name: "heyrocker" mail: "heyrocker@example.com" created: "1315079427" login: "0" status: "1" timezone: "Europe/Stockholm" language: "" picture: "4" roles: { 2: "authenticated user" 3: "administrator" } }

Request http://example.com/user/heyrockerResponse { uid: "4" name: "pontus" image: "http://example.com/sites/default/ﬁles/pontus-small.png" } { uid: "5" name: "bahador" image: "http://example.com/sites/default/ﬁles/bahador-small.png" } { uid: "6" name: "simon" image: "" }

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OK what does this mean to me?

http://drupal.org/project/services

1) Add a new endpoint

2) Enable resources

3) Conﬁgure formatters

That’s It!

Let’s see it in action!

http://pantsquare.me

Tips and tricks

Version Your APIshttp://pantsquare.me/api/v1/node/23

Considerperformance

Check permissions carefully

Don’t sweat dev environments

Don’t build a publicAPI, just build an API

Additional ResourcesServiceshttp://drupal.org/node/736522http://groups.drupal.org/services#drupal-services on freenode.net IRCFrameworkshttps://github.com/workhabitinc/drupal-ios-sdkhttps://github.com/skyred/DrupalCloudCode (Coming Soon)https://github.com/heyrocker/Pantsquare-Apphttps://github.com/heyrocker/PantsquareSumit Kataria’s talk after lunch

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