Comments on: Api keys to the city (setting up a Flex 3 project with Drupal Services)

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:50:22 +0000

Services is still kicking in Drupal and is a viable method for connecting with Flash builder, there may be different methods with the newer build but the same process should hold.

By: Rocko

Rocko — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:53:53 +0000

I know that Flash builder 4 is now integrated with ZendAMF, so what is the step by step process for getting flash builder 4 to work with drupal?

By: Rocko

Rocko — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:52:00 +0000

Is this still the preferred method of working with drupal and the release of Flash Builder 4? Should the same technique still be used for flash builder4 interaction with a drupal based cms backend?

By: Micah Waldman

Micah Waldman — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:47:05 +0000

Erik,

Great post. Thank you so much. It provided me everything I needed to get going.

Since this is the most complete “documentation” that I found on using Services from Flex, I wanted to add a couple of comments that I suspect would help others. Perhaps you want to mention them in your post itself:

- Apparently ‘logout’ is a reserved word in Flex so you cannot do something like user.logout() – you get compiler errors. Instead you need to do user.getOperation(‘logout’).send(). It took me a while to find this out (see http://drupal.org/node/178051#comment-919923).

- When using the latest Services module views.get method, there are two options to get the view data:
1. If you set the Style to Unformatted and then Row style to Fields, then you get back from views.get the fields that are defined in the view. However, there are some limitations here – for example, fields with grouped multiple values are not returned. This has to do with how Services integrates with Views (see more at http://drupal.org/node/678202).
2. You can set the Style to Unformatted and Row style to Node. This in principle returns the whole node, so you can access any fields you need. I say in principle because it was recently changed to return just the nid instead of the entire node object and there’s currently a discussion on how to handle this issue (see more at http://drupal.org/node/654644). I applied the patch listed in #28 of the above issue and it now returns the whole node again, which I need. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

Cheers,
Micah

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:28:22 +0000

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at com.adobe.crypto::HMAC$/hashBytes()[.../src/com/adobe/crypto/HMAC.as:114]

My project is failing in the hashKey method before the call is even made… within the adobe library…?

By: Jomesili

Jomesili — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:10:34 +0000

@ Casey the node.created = myDate.getTime() still returns errors on my Drupal side, I am using Drupal six, i am sure others have this problem too

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:56:06 +0000

Jay,
I did not set up the expiry time, just used default settings and I am not using this for high security purposes

Vanitha,
The last parameter in the node.save is the object to be saved, you may be able to add the tid and vid to this object before the save and get them to stick.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:08:21 +0000

Erik – thanks for this great example project – finally one that works! Couple Q’s:

1. the default Token expiry time is 30s – why so short? what’s the risk in making this effectively infinite?
2. how secure would you say drupal services are with keys and sessionIDs enabled, as your demo project implements it – would you implement a credit card processing application with it?

Cheers!Jay

By: Martijn

Martijn — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:07:39 +0000

Hi Paul, i get the same problem. I get a access denied.
Also tried this tutorial: http://www.novio.be/blog/?p=1034.
there i get the same error when pulling up a view :s

not found a solution yet, I’ve already set all permissions open for Anonymous users but the error still keeps coming…

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:41:05 +0000

I am suffering from “Authentication failed: Access denied” error when I try and browse the views service on a views.get call. I am using “use keys” and sessionids.

All the other services are working fine and your code is generating nodes happily.

Has anyone else experienced problems and got a solution.

I have granted annonymous and authenticated user all privileges.