RE: Enquiry

I'm actually working on this issue for my masterthesis. My goal is to create a module for Drupal 8 that can serialize drupal entities into json-ld and provide hypermediasupport using the Hydra Core vocabulary. It has been a slow process due to bugs and lacking documentation, but Im hoping to publish something that actually works in December. 
- Sindre Njøsen (sindre@sindrenj.net)

> From: markus.lanthaler@gmx.net
> To: public-hydra@w3.org
> CC: lewis.james@gmail.com; patrick.roelli@gmail.com; matslats@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:08:43 +0200
> Subject: RE: Enquiry
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> And welcome to the list.
> 
> 
> On Friday, October 17, 2014 11:45 PM, Matthew Slater wrote:
> > I expect its not too difficult to build a db and expose lots of content
> > types and fields with some kind of security wrapper. But at the moment
> > all the data is defined and managed in Drupal.
> > The Drupal Services module exposes content using Drupal's complex
> > internal data structures which are not intuitive to external
> > applications.
> > So we need to define and publish and implement a rest API just for this
> > data set. I was wondering if there was an easier way.
> 
> I'm not too familiar with the current state of Drupal but wouldn't it be possible to create a "View" and add a "REST export"? Alternatively, implementing a specialized serializer might work as well I guess.
> 
> 
> > What I would ideally like is a standard way for 3rd party application
> > to query my data structure, to find out what content types and fields
> > are available, and from that information to generate its own content
> > displays, its own content editing form, so that the data held on a
> > central server can be managed by many apps, not just Drupal.
> 
> This goes a bit in the direction of decoupledcms.org Maybe you can leverage some of their work!?
> 
> 
> > I don't want to have to change the code every time somebody changes the
> > data structure.
> > Seems such a generic requirement. Is it possible the code exists to
> > this, server-side and even app side?
> 
> Btw. are you talking about the upcoming Drupal 8 or an older version? I think Drupal 8 provides much more than older versions in this regard and it is also much simpler to extend/tweak it as you need. Have a look at the Web Services and Context Core Initiative (WSCCI) [1] to get started.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Markus
> 
> 
> [1] https://groups.drupal.org/wscci
> 
> 
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> Markus Lanthaler
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