API

The development version of the app database is held on the staging site.  Note all development and testing will be completed on the staging site.

Drupal 9 uses:

• HAL : Serializes entities using Hypertext Application Language.
• RESTful Web Services

For testing purposes you can use either of the following Chrome extensions:

• Postman;
• DHC

The user parameters provides details about a specific user based on the following parameters:

• User uid;

The output of this query will return user profile data only of the fields containing data.  An example of the data returned includes, but is not limited to the following:

The user API, was originally created under the General Documenation area (see Query - user).  I'm creating a new user API document under the API documentation area.

Calling a query

To call a user query the details are required:

I had an instance where I needed to move content from a plist to the server database.  To achieve this step, I added a few lines of code where the plist was called and added a call to the API so the data would be on the server.

The original code appeared as: