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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Migrating data from an HTTP API

CSV files and SQL databases are not the only data source you can use for migrations. The Migrate Plus contributed module comes with a URL source plugin. By using the URL plugin as a migration source, the migration can fetch and parse data over HTTP in the following formats:

  • JSON
  • XML
  • SOAP

This means that you can migrate data from any API over the internet, making Migrate Plus an indispensable tool when you need to migrate data over the wire.

Let’s take a look at how this could be used to migrate data from an HTTP API.

How to do it…

At this point, we have given two examples of migration definitions in this chapter. Even though we are migrating from a different kind of source, the format of the migration definition itself is not going to change all that much. We still have our source, destination, and process section.

Imagine that we want to grab data from a public API that returns a JSON response and save...