Release Day: Take Your Web Services to the Next Level

This week, you'll take your HTTP response and request skills to the next level as you learn how to tackle common use cases such as filtering returned data to get only what you need and authenticating requests to get data behind a login. In this installment of our series, Building Web Services with Drupal 7, Joe Shindelar will walk you through how to query, test, and authenticate your D7-backed web services.

In this week's release:

• Using Parameters and Arguments with Resources

• Altering the Response Object

• Configuring Services for Authenticated Requests

• Making Authenticated Requests with cURL

• Making Authenticated Requests with the REST Console

There's still more to come in this series. Next week, we'll bring our journey in learning how to build web services with Drupal 7 to a close. And what's Drupal without Views? In our final installment, Joe will show you how to use Views to customize your web service. Then, he'll wrap up the series with a call to document your API. He'll show you examples of how other popular APIs are documented, how we can learn from them and improve our own API documentation.

We hope you are enjoying this series! Until next week...