Services Views

Views support for the Services module version 3.x and later.

It has currently two features:
- Create view based resource creating Services display in a view
- Execute any view of the system via views resource call

Demo video http://youtu.be/DZEhJKMeR5w

Create view based resource creating Services display in a view

In any view you can create "Services" display. It has only one option setting -- path. That will be the name of your resource. After enabling that resource you would be able to do call to

http://example.com/<endpoint path>/<resource name>

This will execute a view and output results. You can create exposed filters and pass them to your resource. For example if we created exposed filter "tags" call will be:
http://example.com/<endpoint path>/<resource name>?tags=7

You can also use Services field formatter in a view that allows to retrieve full field properties (like body field will come with format, safe_value etc.).

Executing view via views resource

As of 1.3, you can now only make calls to view displays of the services type for security reasons. See 7.x-1.3 Release Notes.

After enabling "views" resource in your services endpoint you can do GET request to:

http://example.com/<endpoint path>/views/<view machine name>?display_id=<display_id>

This will execute a view and pass results.

Possible arguments:
- display_id: views display
- args: array of view arguments
- filters: array of view filter values
- offset: views offset
- limit: limit views number of results
- format_output: boolean whether we would like to get themed view or data

Example of calls:

http://example.com/rest/views/articles?display_id=services_1&limit=5&offset=2&filters[tags]=5
http://example.com/rest/views/articles?display_id=services_1&filters[tags]=5&format_output=1