This talk was given at Drupal Camp Baltimore 2014. In it, I discuss REST and (briefly) SOAP APIs built with Drupal. I give a number of hands on examples using Views Datasource, RESTful Web Services (restws), and the Services module.

Table of Contents

• Intro 0:01
• Why Build Web Services? 4:07
• Views Datasource Intro 9:01
• Views Datasource Example 10:45
• Restful Webservices Module (restws) Intro 15:35
• Restful Webservices Module (restws) Example 18:12
• Services Module Intro 30:22
• Service Module Example 32:00

Modules Covered

• Views Datasource
• RESTful Web Services (restws)
• Services

Slides

http://slides.com/mattkorostoff/drupal-web-services

Code samples

https://github.com/MKorostoff/services-demo

Further reading

• https://www.drupal.org/node/783460
• https://www.drupal.org/node/1246470
• https://www.drupal.org/node/1699354
• https://www.drupal.org/node/750036
• https://gist.github.com/kylebrowning/affc9864487bb1b9c918
• https://drupalize.me/videos/introduction-building-services-drupal-7-series?p=1487