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?
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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