Integrate REST Webservice Using Guzzle In Drupal 8

Drupal 8 Core includes Restful Web Service module. It builds from Drupal 7 Restful Web Service below are the basic points of the REST in Drupal 8. For the purpose of this article, all the screenshots are for 8.3.x.

REST is one of the many options Drupal offers to manage content of websites. It uses HTTP methods to manage operation. It depends on Drupal core’s serialization module. REST allows us to manage any entity of the system.

1. Read Only Methods: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE are read only methods. It do not require authentication process.
2. Write/Manage Only Methods: POST, PUT, DELETE, CONNECT, PATCH methods require authentication process for managing data. X-CSRF-token is used for restricting against CSRF attack. You can acquire it from localhost/session/token URL. We must require _format query argument for REST request.

1. Install (Restlet Client – REST API Testing) addon in chrome extension for verification purpose.
2. Install RestUI module (https://www.drupal.org/project/restui)
3. Install drupal’s core modules ( HAL, HTTP Basic Authentication, RESTful Web Services, Serialization). You can install it by clicking on Extends link from admin screen.

I have created dependency injection for accessing http_client for Client of Guzzle. I have provided you example based on configuration of FORM.

Include namespace in your file (FORM file).
<pre>
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
</pre>

Declare private variable in class file.
<pre>
private $http_client;
</pre>

Assign Client to http_client variable in _construct method of class. Use below code for assigning Client to private http_client variable.
public function __construct(Client $http_client) {
$this->http_client = $http_client;
}

Access http_client service. Use below method for accessing http_client service.
public static function create(ContainerInterface $container) {
return new static(
$container->get('http_client')
);
}

Use below code to assign http_client to $client variable.
<pre>
$client =$this->http_client;
</pre>

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