Drupal 8 REST Post Request Issue

Shouldn't the endpoint be /entity/node instead of /node ? I know this was changed so maybe it is /node but most articles on the web use /entity/node

Yeah absolutely right, the route for creating entities is /entity/node but I can't agree, ideally the default frontpage should be /nodes

Found some useful documentation here:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2405657

Allright, got it working returning a nice 201. See attachment.

@epiro01, 2 things:

1. You forget the Accept header
2. You need an authentication set AND CSRF token (which you can request via /rest/session/token)

This is using Drupal 8 beta10.

Closing this as it works as designed, although documentation is often incomplete on this topic.

Hi,
thanks for this helping lines, but in Drupal 8 beta 16 i got this error:

400 - Bad Request with this body-message:
{
"error": "A string must be provided as a bundle value."
}

This is my request:
{
"title": [
{
"value": "TESTE NODE"
}
],
"type": [
{
"value": "article"
}
],
"_links": {
"type": {
"href": "http://localhost/d8/type/node/article"
}
}
}

Maybe you have an answer for me.
thanks
Andy

@AndyLickt, try changing your type to:

"type":[{"target_id":"article"}]

I've tried all the different formats from this thread (and others I've found via Google) - using DHC in Chrome to send the request.

At first I was getting 403 errors, which (I think) got fixed by making sure I got the X-CSRF-Token from within the same browser I was using to send the request.

Now getting "400 Bad Request" error... "Type mysite.com/rest/type/node/page does not correspond to an entity on this site."

I pasted the URL in my browser, and get "Page not found". I've tried rest/type/node/page, rest/type/node/article, and even rest/type/node/my_content_type (one that I have created). All return "Page not found".

I tried it without the "_link" statement, but then it told me that was required.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ahh, my bad. I had omitted the "http://" from the "type" URL. Ignore my previous post.

Does anybody know how to create a user using rest api in drupal.
my url is : http://localhost/entity/user
i m facing difficulty in forming a request body to hit this api

Here is my working code, hope this help.

Prerequisites:

• Rest Services module must be enabled
• Rest UI module must be installed and enabled
• Perform this as an administrator or adjust REST Services rights in Extend => Rest Services => Rights
• In configuration => REST, enable resource "user" for POST with hal+json, and the authentication prefer you prefer. In my example below, it is Basic Authentication.

Here is my Query:
POST your.drupal.website/entity/user?_format=hal_json

Headers:

Content-Type: application/hal+json
X-CSRF-Token: <your_token_retrieved_from_your.drupal.website/rest/session/token>
Authorisation: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Body:

{
    "_links": {
      "type": {
        "href": "http://your.drupal.website/rest/type/user/user"
      }
    },
	"name":[{"value":"test"}],
	"mail":[{"value":"test@test.fr"}],
	"roles":[{"target_id":"administrator"}],
	"pass":"testpassword"
}