drupal-rest-test: A PHP repository from build2be

About this project

As setting up a test environment is cumbersome this project provides for a install and test script.

It has a POST script to try posting entities into Drupal 8

DIY HAL POST a node is https://www.drupal.org/node/2098511

Known issues:

Config Entities are not available through both REST or HAL. Support ConfigEntity via REST
REST errors are not informative Serve REST errors as application/api-problem+json OR application/vnd.error+json)
Manually How to POST a comment and other relational entities

Requirements

You should have a running Drupal 8 install
You must have installed Drush
You need to know how to write Drush aliases

$ vi ~/.drush/drupal.aliases.drushrc.php

Alias file content:

$aliases['d8'] = array (
  'root' => '/Users/clemens/Sites/drupal/d8/www',
  'uri' => 'http://drupal.d8',
  'databases' =>
  array (
    'default' =>
    array (
      'default' =>
      array (
        'database' => 'drupal_d8',
        'username' => 'drupal_d8',
        'password' => 'drupal_d8',
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'port' => '',
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'prefix' => '',
      ),
    ),
  ),
);

How to install

Checkout this REPO
Run ./rest.sh
Follow the instructions.

Install HAL browser

To test HAL navigation install https://github.com/mikekelly/hal-browser

Command line options

Run $ ./rest.sh gives:

Run with one of the following argument(s) in order of appearance:

Quick start argument sets are:

install-hal : Quickly installs and configures an empty site for HAL and query for content

hal-content : Query as admin for all hal configured content

hal-content-anon : Query as anonymous for all configured content

hal-9000 : Generate 42 nodes

json-content : Query as admin for all hal configured content

json-content-anon : Query as anonymous for all configured content

Step by step arguments are:

install : reinstalls drupal enable modules and setup config

install-modules : install contrib modules: devel rest_ui oauth

install-config : copies the .dist files

views : tries to install a view for the 'nodes' FIXME

content : generated the needed data: users nodes comment

rest-set : enable the rest module disable the hal module and load config

rest : set the accept header

hal-set : enable the hal module and load config

hal : set the accept header

perms : sets the known permissions for the exposed rest resources

web : alias for drush user-login

anon : swith to anonymous user which may not view profile

nodes : query the configured views is successful. FIXME

node : query for a node resource

comment : query for a comment resource

user : query for a user resource

Test POST using HAL

Create a clear install with supporting modules: