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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)

Using Views to provide custom data sources

The RESTful Web Services module provides Views plugins that allow you to expose data over Views for your RESTful API. This allows you to create a view that has a path and outputs data using a serializer plugin. You can use this to output entities in JSON or XML and it can be sent with appropriate headers.

In this recipe, we will create a view that outputs the users of the Drupal site, providing their username, email, and picture if provided.

Getting ready

Make sure you have the following core modules enabled:

  • Views
  • Views UI
  • RESTful Web Services

How to do it…

  1. Navigate to Structure and then Views.
  2. Click on Add new view.
  3. Name the view API Users and have it show Users. At the bottom of the View creation page, check off Provide a REST export. Give it a path of /api/users:
Figure 12.24 – Setting the path for Views for a custom REST endpoint

Figure 12.24 – Setting the path for Views for a custom REST endpoint

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