The goal here will be to design and build a RESTful JSON API in PHP that allows authenticated users to create, modify, and retrieve sets of items over HTTP. Data should be persisted in a MySQL database. You may use any resources or libraries you wish.
The API should allow us to do the following:
- Authenticate a user and make authenticated calls to the API (you should be able to securely determine who is making the API call)
- Respond only to authenticated API calls (for all endpoints/functionality)
- Items related:
- Create items (enforce name uniqueness)
- Delete items (only if the API caller created the item)
- Update items picture URL’s (any user can edit any item)
- Retrieve items by unique id or name
- Retrieve all items that a user has created
- Retrieve the last n items created by a user
- Retrieve the first n items created by a user
- Set related:
- Create sets
- Delete sets (only if the API caller created the sets)
- Update sets (only if the API caller created the set)
- Add/remove items (not allowed to remove items if there is only 1 item)
- Update set description
- Update set picture URL
- Retrieve sets by unique id
- Retrieve all sets that a user has created
- Given a list of n item identifiers, retrieve all sets that contain any of the n items
- Given a list of n item identifiers, retrieve all sets that contain all n items
The server can be run with php artisan serve. See curl.txt for a list of curl commands you can use to test the server.