yii2 rest api implement custom actions - rest

Question

For some reason i am getting :
{
"name": "Not Found",
"message": "Object not found: search",
"code": 0,
"status": 404,
"type": "yii\web\NotFoundHttpException"
}
when I try to access a custom action (http://localhost/project/api/web/v1/userfunctions/search) in my yii2 rest api app.
This is what I have in the main.php configuration file
[
'class' => 'yii\rest\UrlRule',
'controller' => 'v1/userfunction',
'extraPatterns' => ['GET search' => 'search'],
'tokens' => [
'{id}' => '<id:\\w+>'
]
]
And the UserFunctionController class has a actionSearch method.
Am I missing something here?
When I add a blank action method :
public function actions()
{
$actions = parent::actions();
return $actions;
}
method the 404 goes away but i get a blank response (status code 200) [This is irrespective of whether the actionSearch is defined or not] Where does the control go in this case?
Here is the actionSearch() code
public function actionSearch()
{
$output = UserStatus::findAll();
return $output;
}

Answer 1

By default Yii pluralize controller names for use in endpoints. So if you did not configure the yii\rest\UrlRule::$pluralize property to not do so, then your action should be available within :
http://localhost/project/api/web/v1/userfunctions/search
UPDATE:
public function actionSearch()
{
$output = UserStatus::findAll();
return $output;
}
This should throw this PHP error : Missing argument 1 for yii\db\BaseActiveRecord::findAll() as the findAll() method is expecting a mixed argument holding your filtering conditions.
You should use this instead :
public function actionSearch()
{
$output = UserStatus::find()->all();
return $output;
}
I think your server is not showing error messages correctly. Check its configs, errors log files and be sure to have those lines in your Entry Script while the app is in dev state :
// remember to remove them all when deploying to production
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG', true);
defined('YII_ENV') or define('YII_ENV', 'dev');