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Web Services and Decoupled Drupal

Using Parameters and Arguments with Resources

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    with Joe Shindelar
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    Up until this point, all the requests
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    we've made to our API for data have been pretty simple--
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    asking for a specific node by ID or a list of nodes
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    from the index operation.
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    In this lesson, we're going to explore some of the additional
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    but not immediately obvious arguments that can be passed
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    either in the query string for GET operations
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    or in the request body for POST input operations.
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    These arguments allow us little more control

Building Web Services with Drupal 7

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Using Parameters and Arguments with Resources

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12 minutes 28 seconds // Drupal 7 // HDCC //

In this lesson Joe will demontrate using additional parameters and arguments to refine the returned data when making requests from our API. As well as walking through the code that shows where the various parameters are defined and how you can find what options are available. Finally, we install the services tools module which provides some additional documentation.

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