API Extension

• Introduction
• Features
• Installation
• Manually Create an API resource
• Resource Transformer
• Tokens
  • User tokens
  • cURL Example
  • Successful response
  • Using tokens
• API Endpoints

#Introduction

APIs is an extension that allows you to build RESTful APIs and manage them within a TastyIgniter application.

However, it accomplishes more than just that, you may override the api actions (verbs) with your own logic. Default behavior logic for several common verbs are supported — create, store, show, edit, update, destroy.

#Features

• Auto Generate Controller (CRUD)
• Auto Generate Resource Response Class (For modeling JSON response)
• Support eager loading relationships

#Installation

To install this extension, click on the Add to Site button on the TastyIgniter marketplace item page or search for Igniter.Api in Admin System > Updates > Browse Extensions

If you are using an Apache installation you will need to add these lines to your .htaccess file for tokens to be passed correctly.

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
RewriteRule .* - [e=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]

#Manually Create an API resource

The below command will generate both Controller and Transformer for the specified resource

php artisan create:apiresource Acme.Extension ResourceName

After the resource has been generated, add it to routes by registering a new api resource.

Register API Resource

public function registerApiResources()
{
    return [
        'menus' => [
            'name' => 'Menus',
            'description' => 'Description of this API resource',
            'controller' => \Acme\Extension\ApiResources\Menus::class,
        ],
    ];
}

The array keys represents the resource endpoints

#Resource Transformer

Response are transformed using laravel's Eloquent API Resources.

Example of a Resource Transformer

<?php namespace Igniter\Local\ApiResources\Transformers;

use League\Fractal\TransformerAbstract;

class MenuTransformer extends TransformerAbstract
{
	public function transform(Mennu $menu)
	{
	    return [
	        'id'      => (int) $menu->menu_id,
	        'name'    => $menu->menu_name,
            'links'   => [
                [
                    'rel' => 'self',
                    'uri' => '/api/menus/'.$menu->menu_id,
                ]
            ],
	    ];
	}
}

#Tokens

If you choose to restrict access to the API to customers, staff or both, you will need to generate a token for each user or customer you want to be able to access the API.

#User tokens

Tokens can be generated for admin and customers users by sending a POST request to: https://your.url/api/token

The post data should contain the following fields:

#cURL Example

curl -X POST --data "username=my_user&password=my_password&device_name=my_device" https://your.url/api/token

#Successful response

If token generation is successful, you will receive a JSON payload in the format: {"status_code":201,"token":"your-api-token"}

#Using tokens

Tokens should be passed in the Authorization header with every request to a restricted endpoint. For example:

curl -i -X GET -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer your-api-token" https://your.url/api/orders

#API Endpoints

• Categories categories - List, create, retrieve, update and delete categories
• Coupons coupons - List, create, retrieve, update and delete coupons
• Customers customers - List, create, retrieve, update and delete customers
• Locations locations - List, create, retrieve, update and delete locations
• Menus menus - List, create, retrieve, update and delete menus
• Orders orders - List, create, retrieve, update and delete orders
• Reservations reservations - List, create, retrieve, update and delete reservations
• Reviews reviews - List, create, retrieve, update and delete reviews