File. core/ modules/ views/ views.api.php, line 133 Describes hooks and plugins provided by the Views module. Code function hook_views_data { // This example describes how to write hook_views_data() for a table defined // like this: // CREATE TABLE example_table ( // nid INT(11) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Primary key: {node}.nid.', // plain_text_field VARCHAR(32) COMMENT 'Just a plain text field ... Aug 31, 2019 · As an Enterprise content management system, Drupal 8 also provides Restful webservice module in its core modules in order to achieve third party integrations. As an example, a popular usage of a REST interface is a mobile application that needs to read and write data from your site’s database. I would strongly consider extending a filter that already exists in a custom module rather than hacking something together with the PHP input format... I spent way too much time doing it the spaghetti way as I was learning Drupal when I could have just learned to extend Views. Created my first custom Content Entity yesterday using Drupal Console and I was amazed how fast I was able to get things up and running and working with Views. I basically needed to create a download record for when someone downloads a file, so I created a controller for this and used BinaryFileResponse.