bjeavons / rest_router

Drupal 7 REST router for managing public non-drupal specific APIs.

REST Router

Module that allows to create multiple REST endpoints defined in code. No UI is included in this module. Key features:

• lightweight
• supports versions of API with plugins
• authentication plugins
• routing to objects

Using router

To create new rest endpoint module needs to implement hook_rest_endpoints. Hook documentation is available in rest_router.api.php.

Custom responses

Object or function callbacks called by rest_router module can return response in different data formats. Scalar responses are always converted to array

    function my_callback() {
        return "value";
    }

Will become in response data

    array("value")

If other than 200 OK response is required function can return one of response defined response objects.

• new RestRouterResponse($code, $data = NULL)
• RestRouterErrorResponse($code, $message, $data = NULL)
• RestRouterRedirectResponse($path, $code)

Each response has helper method that can be used from inherited class.

Examples

    public function myMethod() {
        // Custom response by initializing class
        return new RestRouterResponse(204);

        // Response by internal helper
        return $this->errorResponse(400, "Missing param [1]");

        // Redirect response example
        return $this->redirectResponse('method/2');
    }

Ideas

• Allow API version definition to override 'auth', 'request', 'response' settings.

Tests

Unit tests are for classes. To run them

drush test-run "Rest Router Unit"

Web test cases can be run by

drush test-run "Rest Router"