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Revision as of 07:30, 23 January 2012
Overview
The Web services API allows you to expose particular functions in your module (usually external functions) as web services.
Once you have done this, your functions will be available to admins to configure as part of their Web services over a given protocol like XML-RPC, REST or SOAP.
Exposing a web service function is done in one file: services.php
services.php
- This file is located in the 'db' folder of your plugin (https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Frankenstyle#Plugin_types)
- This file contains one or two array. The first array declares your web service functions. Each of these declarations reference a function in your module (usually an external function).
<?php
$functions = array(
'local_PLUGINNAME_FUNCTIONNAME' => array( // local_PLUGINNAME_FUNCTIONNAME is the name of the web service function that the client will call.
'classname' => 'local_PLUGINNAME_external', // create this class in local/PLUGINNAME/externallib.php
'methodname' => 'FUNCTIONNAME', // implement this function into the above class
'classpath' => 'local/PLUGINNAME/externallib.php',
'description' => 'This documentation will be displayed in the generated API documentation
(Administration > Plugins > Webservices > API documentation)',
'type' => 'write', // the value is 'write' if your function does any database change, otherwise it is 'read'.
)
);
- The second array declare the pre-build services.
// OPTIONAL
// During the plugin installation/upgrade, Moodle installs these services as pre-build services.
// A pre-build service is not editable by administrator.
$services = array(
'MY SERVICE' => array(
'functions' => array ('local_PLUGINNAME_FUNCTIONNAME'),
'restrictedusers' => 0, // if 1, the administrator must manually select which user can use this service.
// (Administration > Plugins > Web services > Manage services > Authorised users)
'enabled'=>1, // if 0, then token linked to this service won't work
)
);
Finally don't forget to increment the version.php of your plugin on every changes, otherwise Moodle will not know about them.
Example
You will find an example of a services.php file in the web service template plugin. This plugin contains a web service hello_world function. To make testing easy for you, the plugin is distributed with a test client in the folder /client.
