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When to use a POST request in Drupal?
POST requests are used to create new resources. If you need to modify resources, you want to PATCH them. The JSON:API specification (and therefore the JSON:API module) only supports creating one resource per POST request. For Drupal, this means that it is not possible (with this module alone) to create multiple entities in one request.
How to post to a restfull endpoint in Drupal 8?
Either using the gui or drupal console, export your site configuration. Use Drupal console or Drush rather than the ui, it will save you time and error. Since you’ve enabled RETST on Content nodes, the drupal console config export will have created an additional config file: config/sync/rest.resource.entity.node.yml.
How to attach a file to a Drupal node?
The AddFile method of RestSharp is multipart and so the attach_file of Drupal: Upload and attach file (s) to a node. POST multipart/form-data to node/123/attach_file
How to post to a restfull endpoint with basic authentication?
Anyone with access to your network would can decode the base64 string containing your user credentials. Take steps to protect these, by only permitting access to your endpoints over SSL, and give your ‘rest’ user account as least privileges as needed. Here we use Advanced Rest Client to create a new node of the ‘Client’ content type.
How to make a JSON request in Drupal?
You can make GET requests as follows: Next, let’s POST some JSON to a remote API: In the client ->post() method above, we pass in a URL string, and an array of request options. In this case, ‘json’, and an array of the properties we’d like to send as JSON.
How to create an HTTP client in Drupal 8 core?
It should be noted that Drupal 8 core provides another service “http_client_factory”, which returns a ClientFactory object whose fromOptions() method can be used to create a Client with any custom properties like ‘base_uri’, ‘headers’, etc. See this Drupal Answers post for an example: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/a/219203/50788
How to log Drupal : : httpclient request exceptions?
Here is an example of logging Drupal::httpClient request exceptions via watchdog_exception. You can get a full list of Exception types simply by listing the contents of /vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Exception. Utilizing this list allows you to provide different behavior based on exception type.