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Mastering Drupal 8
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Mastering Drupal 8

by Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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RESTful Services

Back in 2012 Dries wrote a blog post declaring that the future was a "RESTful Drupal." In all previous versions of Drupal there were competing methods of implementing REST APIs in Drupal: services, RESTWS and RESTful were the more popular ones in contrib. This lead to other modules having to target one implementation or another in order to work. You could end up finding the functionality you wanted to leverage already built, but using a different set of APIs than you had already implemented. The goal of the Drupal 8's Web Services Initiative was to consolidate the basic REST functionality and allow Drupal to serve as the content repository for any number of clients, and not just the Drupal interface. This allows Drupal to ...

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