Core Drupal 8 modules for web services
- Serialization:- The Serialization module serializes and deserializes your Drupal website data to and from formats like JSON, XML, or HAL+JSON by normalizing and encoding it.
- HAL:- The HAL module adds data normalization by means of the Hypertext Application Language.
- RESTful Web Service:- The RESTful Web Services module exposes your site’s entities or other data in particular API endpoints.
- HTTP Basic Authentication:- The HTTP Basic Authentication (Basic Auth) module authenticates the username and password from a request.
- JSON API:- By enabling the JSON: API module, you immediately gain a full REST API for every type in your Drupal application. JSON:API inspects your entity types and bundles so that it can dynamically provide URLs by which to access each and every one of them using the standard HTTP methods, GET, POST, PATCH, and DELETE.
Some contributed Drupal 8 modules for web services
- REST UI:- This contributed module offers a handy user interface for using core web services. When it is installed and enabled, this interface appears in Configuration — Web services — REST.
GraphQL:- Here is a module that lets API builders use GraphQL — a modern query language. This is a nice alternative to the REST architecture traditionally used for APIs. Queries are shaped by the client-side precisely to get all they want immediately. Obtaining structured data (including that with a complex hierarchy) is based on the schema.
Services:- The most popular module for web services in Drupal 7, the Services module has changed greatly for its 8th version. Its benefits include great API customization options, support for configuration entities, multiple response formats, etc.
RELAXed Web Services:- While providing a RESTful API, this module offers advanced support for translations, file attachments, revisions, UUID references, the opportunity for clients to subscribe to real-time change notifications, etc.
Subrequests:- The Subrequests module we once described is a new and interesting module for Drupal 8. It groups any sets of requests together to improve performance. The JSON document named “blueprint” contains all the necessary information.
All these core modules, as well as these and other contributed modules, do an awesome job! However, unlike simple cases of setting up an API, more complex ones usually require some custom code writing.
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