An iOS REST client for Drupal 8

A GSoC 2014 project By

Jeff and Vivek

REST module in Drupal 8• REST module in D8 allows to expose all most every

possible content entities• Hypermedia driven • Supported auth method basic , cookie ,Oauth , etc.• Very powerful with Drupal ‘Views’ • Still some issues and bugs like problems with File

entity • Lacks documentation and examples

Our iOS client • A simple app written in Objective – C • Consumes RESTful API for node, view , user• Demonstrates GET, POST , PATCH and DELETE on a node Basic Auth for user to login

Demo

DrupalREST Kit• A try to extract common functionality needed

for a Drupal REST client• Currently for iOS, in Objective – C• Supports CRUD on node, user , comment , GET

on view• Same framework for Java (android), JavaScript

can be implemented

DrupalREST Kit• Needs to be extended • Support for CRUD on other entity types• Support for configuration entities • Benefits :– No need to write the same code again– Better code with more people working for it

Possibilities with REST• Content creation and maintenance • User creation and maintenance• Review comments and allow / delete it• Site monitoring with logs and reports • Put site on maintenance mode etc.

How can DrupalREST kit helps to achieve headless Drupal ?

• Same framework can be written with JavaScript

• These API could be core API that interacts with Drupal back end

• And headless Drupal can render the content

Some issues with Drupal 8 REST module

• Support for Config Entity via REST • Serialization for file content to support CRUD

on File entity • Enable CORS for GET requests ( feature request )

• Problems with user entity creation• Need good documentation and examples etc.

QA

Jeff Linwood ( @jefflinwood )jlinwood@gmail.comGithub.com/jefflinwood

Vivek Pandya ( @VivekvPandya)vivekvpandya@gmail.comGithub.com/jefflinwood