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There is a Release for 7.x-1.3. Take a look at the 7.x-1.3 Release Notes.
As always please attempt this upgrade on a non-production environment first as if you upgrade directly from 7.x-1.1 to 7.x-1.3, you will find that your services views will most likely be disabled without an automated upgrade due a decision to force developers to make a more secure configuration. See 7.x-1.3's FAQ section
If you haven't done so already, please update your settings of your api endpoints for the views resource before you upgrade to 7.x-1.3. Take a look at 7.x-1.2 Release Notes for information about the recent security update, the actions needed to be performed by you to keep you safe, and the future plans. Also check out #2900460: Make the Views Resource enforce better security practices..
Views support for the Services module version 3.x and later.
It has currently two features:
- Create view based resource creating Services display in a view
- Execute any view of the system via views resource call
Demo video http://youtu.be/DZEhJKMeR5w
Create view based resource creating Services display in a view
In any view you can create "Services" display. It has only one option setting -- path. That will be the name of your resource. After enabling that resource you would be able to do call to
http://example.com/<endpoint path>/<resource name>
This will execute a view and output results. You can create exposed filters and pass them to your resource. For example if we created exposed filter "tags" call will be:http://example.com/<endpoint path>/<resource name>?tags=7
You can also use Services field formatter in a view that allows to retrieve full field properties (like body field will come with format, safe_value etc.).
Executing view via views resource
As of 1.3, you can now only make calls to view displays of the services type for security reasons. See 7.x-1.3 Release Notes.
After enabling "views" resource in your services endpoint you can do GET request to:
http://example.com/<endpoint path>/views/<view machine name>?display_id=<display_id>
This will execute a view and pass results.
Possible arguments:
- display_id: views display
- args: array of view arguments
- filters: array of view filter values
- offset: views offset
- limit: limit views number of results
- format_output: boolean whether we would like to get themed view or data
Example of calls:
http://example.com/rest/views/articles?display_id=services_1&limit=5&offset=2&filters[tags]=5
http://example.com/rest/views/articles?display_id=services_1&filters[tags]=5&format_output=1