By LTG1 on

Hello,

I'm wondering if there is any interest of having rest/web services apis in the future for Drupal.

The advantage to this would be a option for building decoupled applications.

For example, it would might allow someone to provide an advanced reporting web site. Anyone with a Drupal site could go to this independent reporting site, type in their URL and an API key, and get back various data and analysis of their community.

It would also allow development integration from any language, kind of like the Google APIs do for their sites.

Any feedback appreciated.

regards,
LTG

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LTG1 commented

I guess there is not much interest :)

Anyway I wanted to say that since I've been studying more about drupal/php/zend it seems there is some nice support in the base framework for web services/apis.

So it seems it should be fairly straightforward to at least expose/consume particular web methods on an as needed basis.

Although implementing a rest based version of anything looks like it would require a bit of plumbing.

Regards,
LTG
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