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Drupal 8 Web Services

CODING AND DEVELOPMENT | Moshe Weitzman | FEBRUARY 7 2013

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Demo

This is the sub headingLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent vitae sapien sed nisi commodo posuere. Quisque sollicitudin nisi vitae mi. • Single page apps• Native Mobile Apps• Content staging - deploy module• Content sharing - Feeds Module• Add-on projects like Create.js

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Demo

This is the sub headingLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent vitae sapien sed nisi commodo posuere. Quisque sollicitudin nisi vitae mi. • Single page apps• Native Mobile Apps• Content staging - deploy module• Content sharing - Feeds Module• Add-on projects like Create.js

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Demo

•REST module backend•GET of an aggregator feed•GET results of a View•DELETE a node

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Use Cases

• Single page apps (Backbone)• Native Mobile Apps• Content staging - Deploy• Content sharing - Feeds• Add-ons like Create.js

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REST

Representational State Transfer

• An IETF standard very related to HTTP 1.1• Developed by Roy Fielding in 2000• Verbs: POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE

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Capabilities

•CRUD Content Entities•Read View results•Read a dblog record

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Response Formats

• JSON-LD• JSON• XML

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Developers

• Easy: Use content entities (EntityNG)• REST module plugins (dblog)• Normalizers, Serializers (JSON-LD)• Docs: rest.module tests• D7: Restws and Services projects

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The Future

• Update Entity Types to EntityNG• Basic Auth• Entity Reference

• Config entities• Offline/Rich editors apps• Data sync/deploy/migration tools

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Credits

• Klaus Purer• Lin Clark• Fago• Acquia

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