Android Question REST API & Drupal CMS

[luke2012]

Hi all, is the first time that I need to develop REST API's for a customer project. For me is a new beginning

I'm looking for a robust, tested and supported framework from @Erel platform (B4X frameworks & Tools) that allow me to develop REST API's that allow a B4A app to access a Drupal Database (where is the drupal site developed from the other company that is asking me to develop an android app).
Consider also that I'm familiar with B4J Server Handlers and CloudKVS Server but I never develop a REST API from scratch.
Consider also that my developer skill are intermediate (I'm not a guru)

Thanks in advance for your help & suggestions.
Luca.

 

[Erel]

What exactly do you want to implement? A middleware server similar to jRDC2 or a framework for B4A clients to connect to the Drupal through its REST api?

 

[luke2012]

What exactly do you want to implement? A middleware server similar to jRDC2 or a framework for B4A clients to connect to the Drupal through its REST api?

Hi Erel and thank you for your reply
The final target is to let the B4A Clients to access (read / write) the drupal db (with or without REST API).
In a few words, the app should display the same content of the drupal site (but in a more responsive e simple way for smartphone) plus some additional features (that I have to implement within the app (and I guess within the server side).


I have to choose the easy (time and effort) way to implement this scenario.

 

[DonManfred]

RESTful Web Services API overview

The RESTful Web Services API is new in Drupal 8. For each REST resource, you can specify the supported verbs, and for each verb, you can specify the serialization formats & authentication mechanisms. This page is documenting capabilities of the REST module's API, about how to configure REST...

www.drupal.org

You can use okhttputils2 to communicate with the Api.

 

[luke2012]

RESTful Web Services API overview

The RESTful Web Services API is new in Drupal 8. For each REST resource, you can specify the supported verbs, and for each verb, you can specify the serialization formats & authentication mechanisms. This page is documenting capabilities of the REST module's API, about how to configure REST...

www.drupal.org

You can use okhttputils2 to communicate with the Api.

OK. I already develop an app that use okhttputils2 to comunicate with API that was developed by another developer.
So in this case I don't need a middleware server. I can directly call Drupal REST API (without develop anything on the server side) to read and write data within Drupal site db, is it correct ?

 

[DonManfred]

I don´t know. I do not use Drupal. But based on the link i guess yes.