Producing Web Services in Drupal
I'm Matt Korostoff
I work for Blink Reaction
(and you should too)
Concepts covered
REST server
REST auth
SOAP server
What?
{
"nid": 1,
"title": "hello world"
}
Hello world
Why?
$
Mobile App Dev vs Web Dev 2013
Web Apps
revenue $23 billion $10 billion
growth 3.6% 49%
new products ~50,000,000 73,000
Virtually all mobile apps require web services!
REST
Title Text
Views Datasource
Cons:
Hard to alter with code
Innately read-only
Pros:
Easy to create simple services
Familiar interface
views datasource example
RESTful Web Services
Pros:
no setup time
similar to drupal 8
read/write
accepts query parameters
Cons:
hard to add custom services
poorly documented
fewest features
restws example
Services
Pros:
By far the most features
Easily extensible
REST, SOAP, and XML-RPC
Best documentation
Cons:
Longest setup time
services example
SOAP
REST services automagically become SOAP!
soap example
Thank you
Further reading
Drupal Web Services
By Matt Korostoff
Drupal Web Services
How to use Drupal as a REST and SOAP server
