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Web Services and Decoupled Drupal

Writing A Custom Services Resource

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    Writing A Custom Services Resource
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    with Joe Shindelar
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    JOE SHINDELAR: What do you do when Services doesn't provide you
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    with the data you need, or there isn't already another module
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    integrating with Services to provide you with the actions you want?
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    You write your own, of course.
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    One of the best parts about the services module
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    is its extensible architecture and how quick and easy
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    it is to write our own customized resources that return exactly
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    the data we need and perform exactly the actions we want.

Building Web Services with Drupal 7

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Writing a Custom Services Resource

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24 minutes 14 seconds // Drupal 7 // HDCC //

In addition to the built in support for core's data and actions the services module also provides a robust framework for exposing the data and actions of our custom modules as an API. In this lesson Joe writes a basic module which creates a custom resource for saving and retrieving a "checked in" status for an authenticated user.

Example commands:

Check a user's status

curl http://localhost/demos/services-7x-test/docroot/api/v1/drupalsquare/1 -H "Accept: application/json"

Check-in a user

curl http://localhost/demos/services-7x-test/docroot/api/v1/drupalsquare/checkin -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -d '{"uid":1}'

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Creating a resoruce for Services 3.x