matt-daneshvar / rest
General implementation for Laravel 5 resource controllers
Requires (Dev)
- illuminate/database: 5.*
- illuminate/http: 5.*
- orchestra/testbench: ^3.8
- phpunit/phpunit: ^8.2
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Last update: 2024-11-29 05:26:42 UTC
README
General implementation for Laravel resource controllers.
By assuming a few conventions this package takes care of the repetitive implementation of the CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations on a base controller which you can fully customize and extend to your liking.
Installation
Require the package using composer:
composer require matt-daneshvar/rest
Usage
Extend the ResourceController
and specify a $resource
. Optionally define a $rules
property to enforce validation before store
and update
operations.
<?php use App\Task; use MattDaneshvar\ResourceController\ResourceController; class TasksController extends ResourceController { protected $resource = Task::class; protected $rules = ['name' => 'required|max:200']; }
The TasksController
in the example above will now have general implementation for all CRUD actions.
That includes:
- A
create
method that returns thetasks.create
view. - A
show
method that returns thetasks.show
view injected with the relevantTask
model. - A
create
method that returns thetasks.create
view. - A
store
method that validates* the request against$rules
, persists aTask
object, and redirects user back to the url corresponding to theTasksController@index
action. - An
edit
method that returns thetasks.edit
view injected with the relevantTask
model. - An
update
method that validates* the request against$rules
, updates the relevantTask
object, and redirects user back to the url corresponding to theTasksController@index
action. - A
destory
method that deletes the relevantTask
object, and redirects user back to the url corresponding to theTasksController@index
action.
*should the validation fail, user is redirected back()
with all inputs and errors flashed to the session.
Routing
This package is designed to match Laravel's resource controllers. Creating a route rule for this controller is simple:
Route::resource('tasks', 'TasksController');
Limiting the exposed CRUD operations
While extending ResourceController
automatically includes all CRUD operations in your controller, you may wish
to limit the available operations available for your specific resource. You could achieve that
by limiting the routes you expose in your application:
Route::resource('tasks', 'TasksController', ['only' => ['index', 'show']]);
Validation
Most real-world applications would validate store
and update
requests before
persisting anything to the database.
Specifying a $rules
property on your controller, informs the ResourceController
to validate user's
request against those rules in both store
and update
operations.
class TasksController extends ResourceController { protected $resource = Task::class; protected $rules = ['name' => 'required|max:200']; }
If you wish to use different rules for store
and update
operations, you may specify them separately:
class TasksController extends ResourceController { protected $resource = Task::class; protected $storeRules = ['name' => 'required|max:200']; protected $updateRules = ['name' => 'required|max:200']; }
Pagination
In most situations, your application's index
would use pagination instead of dumping your models into
the view all at once. The ResourceController
assumes 20
items per page. To change this number define the
$perPage
attribute, or set it to null
to disable pagination altogether.
class TasksController extends ResourceController { protected $resource = Task::class; protected $perPage = 10; }
Other configurations
While assuming a set of default conventions with sensible defaults to minimize code repetition in most cases, this package is also packed with a bunch of configuration options to allow you override the default behaviour when needed.
class TasksController extends ResourceController { /** * The resource class name. * * @var string */ protected $resource = ''; /** * The number of models to return for pagination. * * @var int|null */ protected $perPage = 20; /** * Path to all views for this controller (dot-separated path from views directory). * * @var string */ protected $viewsPath = null; /** * Views for different resource actions. * * @var array */ protected $views = []; /** * Validation rules. * * @var array */ protected $rules = []; /** * Validation rules for store action. * * @var array */ protected $storeRules = null; /** * Validation rules for update action. * * @var array */ protected $updateRules = null; }
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.