By basby on

I am using Drupal 8.2.0-rc2. I have HAL, HTTP Basic Authentication, REST UI, RESTful Web Services and Serialization enabled.

In REST UI I have configured:
Content enabled
* GET
* hal_json selected
* json selected
* xml NOT selected
* basic_auth selected
* cookie selected

All other resources are disabled.

Node 68 is of self created content type "Question".

http://my_domain/node/68?_format=json gives {"message":"Not acceptable format: json"}. Why?

I was 1) logged in as admin and 2) not logged in. Same results.
1) ADMINISTRATOR has all permissions automatically
2) ANONYMOUS USER has the following permissions checked
* View all revisions
* View published content
* Form_vraag: View revisions

Anyone any idea what's the problem?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 8.x

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basby commented

It appears that although I selected "json", in RestResourceConfigInterface (core\modules\rest\config\optional) only hal_json was selected. Is this configuration file used?

http://my_domain/node/68?_format=hal_json works for the anonymous user, no matter how I configure in REST UI.

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slewazimuth commented

Although I wrote my own update to REST UI to make it work with 8.2.x and 8.3.x-dev back in early August, its not really needed as you can still adjust any config resource manually at any time via Configuration Synchronization menu.

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basby commented

Configuration Synchronization menu is used to synchronize the development and production environment? I do not use this. Is it wise to install it for changing config resources only?
Is there another way? Is the resource in the database or in a file?

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slewazimuth commented

Configuration Synchronization has a "Single item" mode found under its import and export tabs. Export lets you examine current setting on a single resource and import let's you quickly make a change. Export also lets you export a single resource yaml file from one of the resources it has in the database.

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basby commented

slewazimuth, I used http://mydomain/devel/config (part of the devel module) to change the configuration. And it worked out. Thanks!

In http://mydomain/devel/config I edited rest.resource.entity.node. I changed
formats:
- hal_json

to

formats:
- json
- hal_json

I cleared the cache and now http://mydomain/node/68?_format=json returns the correct json. But this only works when I am not logged in in the browser.

Next I changed
authentication:
- basic_auth

to

authentication:
- basic_auth
- cookie

I cleared the cache again and now http://mydomain/node/68?_format=json also works when logged in as administrator.

Note that I "go to" the url in a regular browser (Chrome).