SedpMis\BaseApi

Abstraction for api resources in Laravel. Compatible to use with Laravel 4.2 and 5.*.

Installation

Use composer to install base-api and dependencies:

composer require sedp-mis/base-api

Introduction

The purpose of this repository is to create an abstraction for common use-cases of api resources. It is a good practice to version our api so we will set our base api to api/v1. So in the following api implementations, the example resource to be used is posts.

Implementation

METHOD	URL	Description
`GET`	`api/v1/posts`	`@index`, List of resources
`POST`	`api/v1/posts`	`@store`, Create or store new resource
`GET`	`api/v1/posts/{id}`	`@show`, Show resource
`PUT\|PATCH`	`api/v1/posts/{id}`	`@update`, Update resource
`DELETE`	`api/v1/posts/{id}`	`@destroy`, Destroy or delete resource

Notice that @<method> are the same with the controller methods in laravel.

Advance Implementation for `GET` methods like `@index` and `@show`.

`@index` and `@show`

Selective Attributes. Resource can be fetched with selective or specific fields or attributes by using query parameter attributes[]. Example:
```
GET url?attributes[]=id&attributes[]=title
```
Relations. Resource can be fetched with eager loaded relations by using query parameter relations[]. Example:
```
GET url?relations[]=comments&relations[]=labels
```
Relations Attributes. Fetched eager loaded relations can also have selective or specific attributes. Example:
```
GET url?relations[comments][attributes][]=id&relations[comments][attributes][]=text
```

`@index`

Pagination. For list of resources, it is recommended to have it paginated:
```
GET url?page=1&per_page=100
```
This example shows that it is currently on the 1st page and showing 100 records per page. Without page parameter, the list will default to all resources to be fetched.
Filtering. It is also handy to filter list by its attributes using filters[attribute][] parameter. Example:
```
GET url?filters[tag][]=cool&filters[tag][]=trending
```

Searching. It is also possible to search by passing search query parameter.

GET url?search[input]=SomeTextToSearch&search[compare][]=title&search[compare][]=description

Sorting. Sorting can be done by this syntax sort[attribute_1]=asc&sort[attribute_n]=desc. Example:
```
GET url?sort[title]=asc
```

sedp-mis/base-api

Abstraction for api resources in laravel.