1. Copyright © 2009. Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Cybage Confidential. Drupal Web Services 1 Authored by: Chaitanya Anil Kulkarni Presented by: Chaitanya Anil Kulkarni

2. Copyright © 2009. Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Cybage Confidential. www.cybage.com Agenda  What is Rest API  Drupal web services modules  Drupal default web services  Browser tools  Extending existing web services  Custom web services  Push Notifications 2

3. Copyright © 2009. Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Cybage Confidential. www.cybage.com What is Rest API  Representational state transfer (REST) o Is a way to communicate with server for performing CURD operations o It is considered as alternative to more complex mechanisms like SOAP  Basic terminologies o Resource Collection of URLs [ http://example.com/resources] o RESTful API HTTP methods GET, PUT, POST and DELETE. 3

4. Copyright © 2009. Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Cybage Confidential. www.cybage.com Return Types Web Services return format  JSON { "glossary": { "title": "example glossary“ } }  XML example glossary. 4

5. Copyright © 2009. Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Cybage Confidential. www.cybage.com Drupal Web Services 5

6. Copyright © 2009. Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Cybage Confidential. www.cybage.com Services Modules  Services o Provide an API for creating web services. o It provides ability for creating methods/actions.  REST Server o Provides an REST server. o Returns output based on configured element of each service. 6

7. Copyright © 2009. Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Cybage Confidential. www.cybage.com Browser Tools Below are tools that allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results  Firefox Add-on - Poster  Chrome Extension - REST Console We need to specify specified set of parameter consumed by web services with particular action[GET, POST, PUT, DELETE]. 7

8. Copyright © 2009. Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Cybage Confidential. www.cybage.com Folder Structure  Drupal follows specific set of folder structure to create custom web services. o CustomModule1_resource Resource file consists of operations[CURD] and actions[custom functionality] Services file consists of predefined set of functions for performing CURD operation and access permissions for web services. 8

9. Copyright © 2009. Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Cybage Confidential. www.cybage.com Push Notification  We can implement push notification by using Google cloud messaging.  GCM Connection server takes messages from 3 rd party application server and send them to GCM enabled Android application.  Ports required to be opened from server must be 5228, 5229, and 5230.  Reference link http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/http.html 9

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