Add Object in json file generate by services module drupal

Question

I need some help about this problem. I need to add object that encompasses the hash of my json file.

I use services module in drupal 6 for generate xml and json file from my nodes. So, when i view my nodes in json i have this:

[
{
"nid": "7",
"vid": "7",
"type": "page",
"language": "",
"title": "Bievenido", ..... } ]

But i need that this json file look like this:

[
{
"<whatever>": {
    "nid": "7",
    "vid": "7",
    "type": "page",
    "language": "",
    "title": "Bievenido", .....  } ]

How to change this json file generated by services module?

Answer 1

The JSON is generated by the RESTServerViewBuiltIn class in the services/servers/rest_server/includes/rest_server.views.inc file, specifically the render_json member function.

Services does provide a way to override this.

Firstly in a custom module implement hook_rest_server_response_formatters_alter and change the View class that's used to render the output to a custom one:

function MYMODULE_rest_server_response_formatters_alter(&$formatters) {
  $formatters['json']['view'] = 'RESTServerViewMYMODULE';
}

Then add your custom View class (I'd keep this in the module file to avoid having to load includes):

class RESTServerViewMYMODULE extends RESTServerView {
  public function render() {
    $new_data = new stdClass;
    $new_data->some_key = $this->model;

    $json = str_replace('\\/', '/', json_encode($new_data));

    return $json;
  }
}

Hope that helps