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Extended Yii2 Framework RESTful for F-Project server sites

What is it?

ActiveController

Yii2-restx provides class fproject\rest\ActiveController which extends yii\rest\ActiveController with additional REST endpoints and methods in order to work with F-Project framework Flex clients.

By default, the following actions are supported:

index: list of models. Support query criteria, pagination and sorting.
view: return the details of a model
create: create a new model
update: update an existing model
delete: delete an existing model
options: return the allowed HTTP methods
save: save (update or insert) a model
batch-save: batch-save (update or insert) models
batch-remove: batch-delete existing models

You may disable some of these actions by overriding actions() and unsetting the corresponding actions.

To add a new action, either override actions() by appending a new action class or write a new action method. Make sure you also override verbs() to properly declare what HTTP methods are allowed by the new action.

You should usually override checkAccess() to check whether the current user has the privilege to perform the specified action against the specified model.

UrlRule

Yii2-RESTx also provides class fproject\rest\UrlRule to config URL rule for active controllers to accept extended routes.

Class UrlRule is provided to simplify the creation of URL rules for RESTful API support.

The simplest usage of UrlRule is to declare a rule like the following in the application configuration,

[
    'class' => 'fproject\rest\UrlRule',
    'controller' => 'user',
]

The above code will create a whole set of URL rules supporting the following RESTful API endpoints:

'PUT,PATCH users/<id>' => 'user/update': update a user
'DELETE users/<id>' => 'user/delete': delete a user
'GET users/remove/<id>' => 'user/delete': delete a user
'POST users/batch-remove' => 'user/batch-remove': batch-remove an array of users
'GET,HEAD users/<id>' => 'user/view': return the details/overview/options of a user
'POST users' => 'user/create': create a new user
'POST users/save' => 'user/save': save a user
'POST users/batch-save' => 'user/batch-save': save a user
'GET,HEAD users' => 'user/index': return a list/overview/options of users
'users/<id>' => 'user/options': process all unhandled verbs of a user
'users' => 'user/options': process all unhandled verbs of user collection

You may configure only and/or except to disable some of the above rules. You may configure patterns to completely redefine your own list of rules. You may configure controller with multiple controller IDs to generate rules for all these controllers. For example, the following code will disable the delete rule and generate rules for both user and post controllers:

[
    'class' => 'fproject\rest\UrlRule',
    'controller' => ['user', 'post'],
    'except' => ['delete'],
]

The property controller is required and should represent one or multiple controller IDs. Each controller ID should be prefixed with the module ID if the controller is within a module. The controller ID used in the pattern will be automatically pluralized (e.g. user becomes users as shown in the above examples).

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

composer.phar require fproject/yii2-restx:"*"

Usage

In your Yii configuration file, use fproject\rest\UrlRule instead of yii\rest\UrlRule

'urlManager' => [
           'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
           'enableStrictParsing' => true,
           'rules' => [
               ['class' => 'fproject\rest\UrlRule', 'controller' => 'user'],
           ],
       ]

Let your controller extends fproject\rest\ActiveController instead of yii\rest\ActiveController

class UserController extends \fproject\rest\ActiveController{
   public $modelClass = 'app\models\User';
}

Samples

See the sample project in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/fproject/fprj-test-server-yii2

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