Services

#D7CX: We did our best and managed to get a release candidate out for Drupal 7. Please test and give us feedback! The sooner you do the sooner we can release!

A standardized solution of integrating external applications with Drupal. Service callbacks may be used with multiple interfaces like XMLRPC, JSON, JSON-RPC, REST, SOAP, AMF, etc. This allows a Drupal site to provide web services via multiple interfaces while using the same callback code.

Features(2.x):

• Service API allow modules to create other services, including pluggable access control
• Server API allow modules to create other servers, such as REST and SOAP
• Service browser and testing page
• Manage API keys
• Integration with core Drupal functionality like files, nodes, taxonomy, users and more.

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Version 3

Services 6.x-3.x is now available in beta. Read up on it here.Note that currently there is no upgrade path for Services 3, and it is not backwards compatible with older implementations of the API. Therefore some existing modules like JSON Server and AMFPHP will not work with it.

Features(3.x):

• Service API allow modules to create other services, including pluggable access control
• Server API allow modules to create other servers, such as SOAP
• Aliasing methods
• Integration with core Drupal functionality like files, nodes, taxonomy, users, files and more.
• Response format API allows you to define response Formats for CONTENT-TYPE ie. application/json or application/xml. (also calls such as ENDPOINT/node/1.json work)