Web (Rest/SOAP) API for Moodle Question Bank

Question

I need to make a different front-end I need good API interface for Question Bank/Question Engine? I didn't find much details on this.. Can someone help?

Answer 1

Doesn't look like there is a web service for the question bank

https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Web_service_API_functions

If you know PHP, then you could create your own web service in Moodle

https://moodledev.io/docs/apis/subsystems/external

First you will need to create a simple local plugin

https://moodledev.io/docs/apis/plugintypes/local

At the very least, have these 2 files

local/yourpluginname/version.php
local/yourpluginname/en/local_yourpluginname.php

Then add a web service to the plugin

https://moodledev.io/docs/apis/subsystems/external/writing-a-service

Declare your web service in this file

local/yourpluginname/db/services.php

And add the code for the web service to something like

local/yourpluginname/classes/external/get_questions.php

The class will need 3 functions, what parameters are required, what parameters are returned and code for the web service

namespace local_yourpluginname\external;

use external_function_parameters;
use external_multiple_structure;
use external_single_structure;
use external_value;

class get_questions extends \core_external\external_api {
    public static function execute_parameters() {
        ...
    }

    public static function execute_returns() {
        ...
    }

    public static function execute($params) {
        ...
    }

}