7. Data providers

RESTful 2.x comes with numerous "data provider" classes. The data provider class abstracts the data access functionality from the resource class.

Info

• List of data providers (2x)
• Assigning a different data provider
• Creating a custom data provider

Example custom data providers:

• Access data from a secondary database
• Look up a URL alias mapping with DataProviderDbQuery
• Access unpublished nodes