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Bharanikumar
Bharanikumar

Reputation: 25733

I need quick clarification on drupal REST services

I have written many services resources on the DRUPAL, "n" number of API hit comes to the DRUPAL CMS and access the data in the DRUPAL database.

My question is, when I hit service, Is DRUPAL CMS calling the bootstrap and verify every modules is loaded or not ?

Because I am wondering, there are nearly 100 web services, no more DRUPAL UI is consumed in this project.

So web service will eat site performance ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 48

Answers (1)

Pierre Buyle
Pierre Buyle

Reputation: 4873

Each request to one of your services will bootstrap Drupal in order to be able to reliably uses its APIs. And yes, this is a performances hit since bootstrapping Drupal is not lightweight.

In addition, depending on how the services are build, they may not provide any kind of caching, unlike traditional pages. Also a Web Services driven page will probably require more than one request, increasing the load on the server.

So yes, Web Services may eat your site performances.

Upvotes: 2

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