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This package provides an easy method implement API resource controllers without having to write similar code. This is helpful if you have several models that are accessed via API calls and don't have complex relations.

Note: this readme is a work in progress

Install

Using Composer

$ composer require taylornetwork/laravel-api-resource

Setup

Models that will use this package must extend TaylorNetwork\LaravelApiResource\Models\ApiResourceModel, your models will continue to work as normal as the ApiResourceModel class extends Laravel's eloquent model class.

If your models are in a different namespace than App\ be sure to publish the config and change model_namespace to your namespace.

Usage

When creating a new controller related to a specfic model, all you need to do is extend TaylorNetwork\LaravelApiResource\Controllers\ApiResourceController and that handles Laravel's resource calls.

Example

For example if you have a model App\Customer and you want to access it via API calls.

Model

The Customer model will have a required name field that we can add to the $validationRules property.

// app/Customer.php

namespace App;

use TaylorNetwork\LaravelApiResource\Models\ApiResourceModel;

class Customer extends ApiResourceModel
{
	protected $validationRules = [
		'name' => 'required',
	];
	
	protected $fillable = [
		'name', 'email', 'address',
	];
}

Routes

The routes must be added to routes/api.php

// routes/api.php

Route::apiResource('customer', 'Api\\CustomerController');

Controller

This is all the code required to handle the API calls, the ApiResourceController handles all related routes.

// app/Http/Controllers/Api/CustomerController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api;

use TaylorNetwork\LaravelApiResource\Controllers\ApiResourceController;

class CustomerController extends ApiResourceController
{

}

If you have a more complex relation for a specfic route, you can override that in your controller.

// app/Http/Controllers/Api/CustomerController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api;

use TaylorNetwork\LaravelApiResource\Controllers\ApiResourceController;
use App\Customer;

class CustomerController extends ApiResourceController
{
	public function show($id)
	{
		return Customer::with('someRelation')->find($id);
	}
}

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