A good API is one of most effective ways to improve the experience for your clients. Standardized approaches for data formats and communication protocols increase productivity and make integration between applications smooth.
This framework agnostic package implements JSON API specification version v1.0 and helps focusing on core application functionality rather than on protocol implementation. It supports document structure, errors, data fetching as described in JSON API Format and covers parsing and checking HTTP request parameters and headers. For instance it helps to correctly respond with Unsupported Media Type (HTTP code 415) and Not Acceptable (HTTP code 406) to invalid requests. You don't need to manually validate all input parameters on every request. You can configure what parameters are supported by your services and this package will check incoming requests automatically. It greatly simplifies API development and fully support specification. In particular
- Resource attributes and relationships
- Polymorphic resource data and relationships
- Compound documents with inclusion of related resources (circular resource references supported)
- Meta information for document, resources, errors, relationship and link objects
- Parsing HTTP
AcceptandContent-Typeheaders in accordance with RFC 7231 - Parsing parameters for pagination, sorting and filtering
- Sparse fieldsets and customized included paths
- Errors
High code quality and 100% test coverage with 200+ tests. Production ready.
To find out more, please check out the Wiki and Sample App.
“I'm loving how easy it makes it to quickly implement an api”
–Jeremy Cloutier
This package is framework agnostic and if you are looking for practical usage sample you might be interested in Quick start JSON API server application Limoncello Flute.
The server supports
- CRUD operations for a few sample data models and Users.
- Cross-origin requests (CORS) to API server.
- Authentication (Bearer token) and authorizations for CRUD operations.
- Support for such JSON API features as resource inclusion, pagination and etc.
Assuming you've got an $author of type \Author you can encode it to JSON API as simple as this
$encoder = Encoder::instance([
'\Author' => '\AuthorSchema',
], new EncoderOptions(JSON_PRETTY_PRINT, 'http://example.com/api/v1'));
echo $encoder->encodeData($author) . PHP_EOL;will output
{
"data": {
"type": "people",
"id": "123",
"attributes": {
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Dow"
},
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/api/v1/people/123"
}
}
}The AuthorSchema provides information about resource's attributes and might look like
class AuthorSchema extends SchemaProvider
{
protected $resourceType = 'people';
public function getId($author)
{
/** @var Author $author */
return $author->authorId;
}
public function getAttributes($author)
{
/** @var Author $author */
return [
'first_name' => $author->firstName,
'last_name' => $author->lastName,
];
}
}The first EncoderOptions parameter JSON_PRETTY_PRINT is a PHP predefined JSON constant.
The second EncoderOptions parameter http://example.com/api/v1 is a URL prefix that will be applied to all encoded links unless they have $treatAsHref flag set to true.
For more advanced usage please check out the Wiki.
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Are you planning to add JSON API and need help? We'd love to talk to you sales@neomerx.com.
If you have spotted any specification changes that are not reflected in this package please post an issue. Pull requests for documentation and code improvements are welcome.
Current tasks are managed with Waffle.io.
There are 2 ways to send pull requests
- small pull requests should be sent to
developbranch as 1 commit - for bigger pull requests (e.g. new features) it's recommended to create an
issuerequesting a new branch for that feature. When a new branch namedfeature/issueXXis created (whereXXis the issue number) you should post pull requests to this branch. When the feature is completed the branch will be squashed and merged todevelopand then tomasterbranches.
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