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* [[Web_services_Roadmap | Web service Roadmap]] | * [[Web_services_Roadmap | Web service Listing & Roadmap]] | ||
== Specification and brainstorming == | == Specification and brainstorming == |
Revision as of 08:08, 5 April 2012
How it works
This simple example will give you an idea of how our web services infrastructure works.
- The client sends a username and password to the web service login script.
- The script returns a token for that user account.
- The client calls a particular web service function on a protocol server including the token .
- The protocol server uses the token to check that the user can call the function.
- The protocol server call the matching external function, located in a externallib.php file inside the relevant module.
- The external function checks that the current user has_capability to do this operation.
- The external function calls the matching Moodle core function (in lib.php usually).
- The core function can return a result to the external function.
- The external function will return a result to the protocol server.
- The protocol server returns the result to the client.
Developer documentation
The full API can be found on any Moodle sites under Administration block > Plugins > Web services > API Documentation.
- How to contribute a web service function to core
- Adding a web service to your plugin
- Implement a web service client
- Web services files handling
- Web service Listing & Roadmap