I was wondering if there is documentation on using views with another datasource. Tried google and drupal.org to find something. The only thing I found was an example, being the apache_solr views module which uses solr as an alternative datasource.
Since this being a very powerful feature I m guessing there must exist some documentation about it.
We are looking into to views to use it on top of several webservices. We really like to use views because the client doesnt know yet on how to display/access/show this data. Having its data mapped to views would allow us to configure all this so site admins can build views if they want to.
If no doc present I can pretty much garanty that we ll contribute the documentation of our implementation because the client provides the time to document all code we write. Useless offcourse the documentation does allready exist. So if you could help us out here with some docs we would appreciate it very much. Thanks in advance!

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dawehner’s picture

Category: support » task

I don't think that there is some documentation existing about this feature. So feel free about creating one :)

There are quite some examples around

* Apachesolr_views
* sparql_views: http://drupal.org/project/sparql_views
* efq_views: http://github.com/bojanz/efq_views
* yql_views: http://drupal.org/project/yql_views_query
* twitter_views: http://drupal.org/project/twitter_views
* some more

bojanz’s picture

We talked about creating a page with a list of all the query backends, and linking to it from the views project page.

I used yql_views as an example to learn from before writing efq_views, both codebases should be pretty clear.
In any case, you can always ask (here and on IRC) concrete questions about accomplishing what you need.

esmerel’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.