I'm using CakePHP and Backbone.js as a frontend so I want to get CakePHP's REST routing working, but I don't really want to use the default REST routes.
For example, I want to be able to POST to http://example.com/cards/search.json and get a list of results in JSON, however I am getting a 200 status code back, and a blank response which makes me think the routing is not working properly.
I have tested my code using the default REST routes by chagning the search() method of my controller to add(), but I would prefer to be able to properly setup and use custom REST routes.
Router::connect(
"/cards/search",
array(
"[method]" => "POST",
"controller" => "cards",
"action" => "search"
)
);
Router::mapResources('cards');
Router::parseExtensions('json');
The code from my routes.php is above and I'm not entirely sure why it isn't working...either because the documentation on this is a little light, or I just don't understand routing very well.
You can get the json output in this url:
http://localhost:{port}/{api* name in config # app/core}/{controller name}/{things after api_ in function name}/{input parameters}.json
read more in here
You may have to alter the routing to change the name
api
to anything in
Configure::write('Routing.prefixes', array('master', 'api'));
in core.php in app/config
Feel free for a comment and also share your core.php in config for more explanation.
Related
If I call this Wordpress blog url in a browser
<root...>wp-json/wp/v2/posts?per_page=5&fields=id,link,title
I get back JSON and the result is restricted to 3 fields
So how can I do this when using the node js wp-api module?
I would like something similar to .fields([]) but there is nothing in the docs, can find nothing in the module code.
TypeError: wpapi.posts(...).perPage(...).fields is not a function
Or something like .filter({})
TypeError: wpapi.posts(...).perPage(...).filter is not a function
But I think this might be connected with another Wordpress plugin that's required.
wpapi.posts()
.perPage(5)
.fields(['id','link','title'])
.search( 'search-term' ) //= (search in title or content)
.filter({
category_name: 'islands',
fields: [ 'id','link','title' ]
})
.get(function (err, data) {
..... etc.
TypeError: wpapi.posts(...).perPage(...).fields is not a function
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks
It appears wp-api node module does not allow this.
So I uninstalled it and am now using axios along with standard text urls.
This worked for me:
wpapi.posts().param('_fields', 'id,title,content').get()
The node-wpapi documentation seems to suggest say that perPage() and functions like it are convenience functions that call param(props, value).
wpapi.posts().param('_fields', ['id','title','content']).get()
also seems to work but the first option gives a resulting request url that looks more like the format the Wordpress REST API Handbook uses
Hi I'm building REST api for an app, I have a requirement in URL
such that url should be something like this e.g
www.abc.com/api/param1/value1/param2/value2/param3/value3.... and so on
There are cases
case: The number of params are not limited it can change frequent
if today it is something like this
www.abc.com/api/param1/value1/param2/value2/param3/value3
tomorrow it can be like this
www.abc.com/api/param1/value1/param2/value2/param3/value3/param4/value4
Is there a configuration where once you configure the url pattern
and every thing go smooth
and in conrtoller params should contain this kind of key-value pair
{ "param1" => "value1","param2" => "value2","param3" => "value3"...and so on }
any suggestion !! how to achieve this ??
If your params are not fixed you can use wildcard in routing
for e.g
get 'items/list/*specs', controller: 'items', action: 'list'
def list
specs = params[:specs] # e.g, "base/books/fiction/dickens" #split it and place in a hash
end
Rails routing provides a way to specify fully custom routes with static and dynamic segments as explained in the Rails Routing Guide.
Your requirement should be achievable with
get '/api/param1/:param1/param2/:param2/...', to: 'controller#action'
You can use route scoping for this particular kind of problem . In other way it is nested routes
More details : http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#nested-resources
This is a example,
GET /magazines/:magazine_id/ads/:id/edit ads#edit
return an HTML form for editing an ad belonging to a specific magazine
I think this would be helpful for you.
In CakePHP 3 the rest routing doesn't call classes in subnamespace. For example the route "posts/2/comments/10" call App\Controller\CommentsController. I want it to call App\Controller\Posts\CommentsController because comments are not always for posts...
Here is my solution :
$routes->resources('Posts');
Router::scope('/posts/:post_id/',['post_id'=>'[0-9]+','prefix'=>'posts'], function($routes){
$routes->resources('Comments');
});
It works fine but i don't know if it is a good practice.
Thank you
If you want to group controllers by namespace use Router::prefix() or $routes->prefix() instead of $routes->scope()
Working on building an API and would like to use RESTful routes.
I got it to work just fine like this:
http://www.mysite.com/events.json // returns json results with my events
http://www.mysite.com/events/123.json // returns json results with event of id '123'
BUT - I want to be able to do this using an 'api' prefix.
So, I added the api Routing prefix:
Configure::write('Routing.prefixes', array('admin', 'api'));
And changed my actions from 'view' and 'index' to 'api_view' and 'api_index'.
But now it doesn't work. (eg. I have to write the action name or it won't find the correct one based on HTTP.
The end goal would be to be able to do something like this:
GET http://www.mysite.com/api/1.0/events.json // loads events/api_index()
GET http://www.mysite.com/api/1.0/events/123.json // loads events/api_view($id)
DELETE http://www.mysite.com/api/1.0/events/123.json // loads events/api_delete($id)
...etc
I ended up having to just write the routes manually:
Router::parseExtensions('json', 'xml');
Router::connect('/api/:version/:controller/:id/*',
array('[method]'=>'GET', 'prefix'=>'api', 'action'=>'view'),
array('version'=>'[0-9]+\.[0-9]+', 'id'=>'[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}'));
Router::connect('/api/:version/:controller/*',
array('[method]'=>'GET', 'prefix'=>'api', 'action'=>'index'),
array('version'=>'[0-9]+\.[0-9]+'));
Router::connect('/api/*', array('controller'=>'events', 'action'=>'index', 'ext'=>'html'));
Notes:
The [method] is what forces the HTTP type (eg. RESTful)
The parseExtensions() makes it so you can have it display the data in different formats automatically by changing the extension in your URL.
The last Router:: line was just a catchall for anything /api/ that didn't match - it forwarded it to the homepage. Eventually I'll probably just route this to an API error page.
The 'ext'=>'html' of the last Router:: line was to keep parseExtensions from trying to use whatever extension was in the URL - if it's redirecting for reasons they made the call wrong, I just want it to go back to the homepage (or whatever) and use the normal view.
Try something like this.
Router::connect('/:api/:apiVersion/:controller/:action/*',
array(),
array(
'api' => 'api',
'apiVersion' => '1.0|1.1|'
)
);
With prefix routing
Router::connect('/:prefix/:apiVersion/:controller/:action/*',
array(),
array(
'prefix' => 'api',
'apiVersion' => '1.0|1.1|'
)
);
Will match only valid API versions like 1.0 and 1.1 here. If you want something else use a regex there.
I know this is an old post, but there is a routing method called mapResources which creates the special method based routing for you.
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/rest.html
You put it in routes.php like so:
Router::mapResources(array('controller1', 'controller2'));
The docs have a nice little table showing how the requests are mapped to different actions, which you can always override if you need to.
I'm trying to create a custom http method in RESTful API. I was reading the documentation and it is said that you can do it buy adding a simple action in controller and then for example conifg your route with child routes with action => action_name but in the code I have spotted addHttpMethodHandler() method in Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractRestfulController.php so in controller construct method I have added:
$add = function () {
return new JsonModel(array(
'id' => 2222,
));
};
$this->addHttpMethodHandler('someAction', $add);
var_dump($this->customHttpMethodsMap);
With the var_dump I can see that this new function is added but I just wonder how can I call it or maybe I'm missing the point.
Regards,
I actually wrote a blog post on this because I had so much trouble too.
The problem is that in addition to calling addHttpMethodHandler within the abstract restful controller, you also need to make sure that the Zend Request class knows that your http method exists.
Here is a link to a better explanation: http://richardbrock1.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/custom-http-methods-in-zf2/