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Sometimes, the core REST API isn’t adequate for your needs, whether due to the fact that it is ill-equipped to issue collections of resources or because you cannot get out of Drupal the information that you require in your consumer. Many of the same motivations that lead decision makers to choose Drupal as a CMS—namely the Views module and its flexible query building—transfer to decoupled Drupal implementations as well. Fortunately, Views contains a REST export display type that can be employed to provide custom-designed, read-only APIs.
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“GET on Views-Generated Lists.” Drupal.org. 12 February 2018. Accessed 26 April 2018. https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/core/modules/rest/get-on-views-generated-lists
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So, P. (2018). Using Views with Core REST. In: Decoupled Drupal in Practice. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4072-4_11
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