RESTWS exposes Drupal resources (e.g. entities) as RESTful web services. The module makes use of the Entity API and the information about entity properties (provided via hook_entity_property_info()) to provide resource representations.

It aims to be fully compliant to the REST principles.

Installing the Module

• Copy the whole restws directory to your modules directory (e.g. DRUPAL_ROOT/sites/all/modules) and activate the RESTful Web Services module.
• Use Drush commands: drush dl restws & drush en restws
• There is no user interface to configure.

Usage / Testing

To obtain the JSON representation of an entity use your browser to visit: http://example.com/<entity type name>/<entity id>.json
For example: http://example.com/node/1.json or http://example.com/user/1.json would resolve as a JSON dump to client. There are no "service endpoints" to configure as resources are just available at uniform paths like "node/1", "user/1". One can use a client in the form of a browser plugin to test out the different CRUD functions.

Permissions