webapi_rest event area isn't mentioned in the Events and observers page

[hostep]

Hi

I just wasted 2 hours trying to figure out why a certain event wasn't being observed on the frontend while defining it in my etc/frontend/events.xml file.
Apparently, certain 'frontend' events now should be declared in the etc/webapi_rest/events.xml file.
There is no mentioning of this on the Events and observers page

Is it possible to add this and also explain which events should be declared in that event area?
So other people waste less time then myself when they have to get some work done :)

Thanks!

References from the Magento2 project: magento/magento2#7524 & magento/magento2#1581

[tanberry]

Ach, sorry @hostep for the wasted time, and a big thanks for letting us know how to prevent others from wasting time in the future. @jcalcaben can you take a look and add the requested info to the Events and observers page and wherever else it might be needed? Pieter, it would be great if you are willing to take a look after James updates the docs, and let us know if it is more clear. Thanks!

[hostep]

Tnx @tanberry!

@jcalcaben, I see there are even more area's to be aware of, see:
https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/develop/lib/internal/Magento/Framework/App/Area.php#L18-L24

But I'm not sure if all of these can and are being used for defining observers...

[jcalcaben]

@hostep Thanks for pointing this out. I will also add Areas as a topic that needs to be written in addition to fixing the doc.

[jeff-matthews]

Tracking the "Areas" doc updates separately. PR #1700 fixes this issue. Thanks @hostep!

[hostep]

Hi @jeff-matthews, actually PR #1700 only talks about the frontend and adminhtml area's, not about the webapi_rest area or any of the other area's.