¡Instalación de la plataforma API!

Thanks Ajie62 :)

I manage to make it work using : composer require api-platform/api-pack "1.2.0"

Thanks to finish folder in the course code.
Dependencies update is a very big problem in tutorials! (already talked about that with Ryan)

Hey atournayre!

This definitely sounds like a problem :). We have a new course "continuous integration" system (we just finished v1 2 days ago) - it sounds like we need to hook this course up to that and see what's going on.

Cheers!

Hi Ryan, is this new course finished yet? Also, like Aurélien I stumbled upon lots of compatibility errors while doing this tutorial, which made me temporarily gave up, trying to gain more symfony experience elsewhere. But it would be nice if all those api-platforms tutorials would be ported to symfony 6. Any plans to do that? Thanks for the good work anyway.

Hey Pierre!

Yes, this course is finished. And, it should work just fine.... if you're using OUR code with our Symfony version. So, indeed, if you try to apply this to a Symfony 6 project, there will be some changes (not really much related to API Platform itself, but things more related to Symfony). We will upgrade these tutorials... but I'm not sure when. I need to check with the API Platform team to see what their roadmap is (so we don't upgrade these tutorials... only for them to release some big features right after!).

In the mean time, if you have some compat errors, we can definitely help debug those. Sorry I can't give a better answer!

Hi NilsJohan!

Really sorry about the trouble - that’s not the experience we want :/. The code behind this tutorial is old. Fortunately, I’m working on writing a new version right now - we were waiting for ApiPlatform 3 to be released (it did a few months ago), but turning around and getting the tutorial out is never as fast as I’d like.

Anyways, sorry for the frustration - understandable! My hope is that in a few weeks, we’ll have a fresh version of these ApiPlatform tutorials releasing.

Cheers!

Hey Zazou,

Yes, match is the new PHP 8 syntax, see https://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.match.php - it seems like somewhere in your code or in the code of your dependencies it's used. Please, double-check the version of your PHP installed on Windows, are you on PHP 8? Because it seems like you have a lower version of PHP there. Then, you need to upgrade your PHP version first and the project should work fine. I bet you had PHP 8 on Mac but PHP 7 on Windows, and so it makes sense that dependencies installed on Mac does not work on Windows because of the lower version (they were installed for PHP 8).

Or if your project should work on a lower version, e.g. PHP 7.1 - you should explicitly said this in your composer.json via:

{
    "config": {
        "platform": {
            "php": "7.1.3"
        }
    }
}

Ideally, in config.platform.php use the same PHP version you're using on production for this project. After you added that config.platform.php - you will also need to update dependencies with composer update to fetch Composer dependencies for the specified PHP version.

Cheers!

On my PC i have 3 versions of PHP : 7.3, 7.4 and 8. For this tuto, i declare on my windows environnement variable to use the 7.4 version of php. when i run a terminal on windows and run php -v, it's the good version of php 7.4.
I use xamp for mysql and apache and it work on php 8.

I try to add config platform php 7.1.3 in composer.json, run composer update and i have the same error again :(

Hey Zazou,

The easiest way for you would be to use PHP 8 I suppose :) I bet the project will work fine on PHP 8 for you, but it would mean that you will have problems with running it on PHP 7 unless you fixed it. In theory, you can just bump your PHP version in the composer.json to PHP ^8.

But if you really need to run the project on legacy PHP versions, and specifically on the 7.1.3 as you mention in your composer.json - then yeah, you need to set the config.platform.php version to 7.1.3 as you did, and also update dependencies with composer update - please make sure you do not have any errors during that command executing, the command should be executed without any errors. Then clear the cache just in case and check again - if you still see the same issue about match - most probably you have this match use in your code, not in the third-party libraries you have installed. So, you will need to find the place where you use that match in your code and rewrite it with a legacy PHP code.

I hope this helps!

Cheers!

Hey Emanuele-P!

we have been successfully moved to version 2.7.2 with the flag to be ready for 3

Nice!

but when i try to go further ( with version 3 ) i find out the a lot of changes happen in the @context, i could not find any proper info about it ( not in the docs at least), is it possible to have more info about it?

We're' going to make a tutorial for API Platform 3 before the year is over - it's one of my top priorities. I'll be sure to mention, in that tutorial, as many differences as I can before 2 and 3 to help ease the transition. So, it's coming!

Cheers!

Hey Ninsky!

I believe you could do something like:

when@prod:
    api_platform:
        enable_swagger: false
        enable_swagger_ui: false

I believe the difference between those two options is that the UI prevents the HTML version of the page being loaded, but enable_swagger controls if you could see the JSON version of the "open api" docs.

Let me know if that helps :).

Cheers!

Hello Ryan

Thanks for your help! Will give it a try. Also found the following params which I will test:

when@prod:
  api_platform:
    enable_docs: false
    enable_entrypoint: false

Have a nice day
Ninsky

Hey Lubna

It seems like you're doing the request to a non https endpoint. Try updating your Nelmio config - change the allow_origin key to allow HTTPS

Cheers!

Hey Benoit L.!

Thanks for sharing your solution :). I'm not sure what happened, but the course does require a composer update if you're using PHP 8. We don't update the course download code because we want it to match what you see in the video exactly.

Cheers!

In fact, I'm facing this problem again this morning. And my version of PHP is 7.4.13.
I have created the bookshop-api proposed on the https://api-platform.com/do... and when I run the same command it works with the command symfony serve -d. So the only 2 differences I see is that when I have created the project following the instructions of api-Platform we start by running the instructions "composer create-project symfony/skeleton bookshop-api " and after that we run the instruction "composer require api". I could try to create the start project with those instructions then importing the files inside the project.
What do you think ?

Hey @Benoit!

Apologies for the slow reply! Ok, let's see:

> Is is normal that there is this file htaccess with "Deny from all"

What htaccess file are you referring to? I don't see any htaccess file when I download the course code from this page, and I wouldn't expect to see any .htaccess files. Do you see one somewhere?

> could try to create the start project with those instructions then importing the files inside the project.

You could certainly try that! Though, I *would* love to figure out the underlying problem that you're having :).

Cheers!

I'm creating the project inside Php Storme and I see this file. I would like to add a screen shot but I am not sure how to do it.
This is the message that I get when I run symfony server:start : [Web Server ] Mar 26 20:32:57 |ERROR | SERVER GET (500) / ip="127.0.0.1".
I see this message in the log as well : [Web Server ] [26-Mar-2022 19:32:57 UTC] PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'C:\wamp64\www\api-platform\start/vendor/autoload.php'
And when I run the same command on the finish project I have the same error which seems to me weird.

concerning the .htaccess file it is in the cache folder both in the start and the finish projects. I don't have the image icon to share with you the screenshot otherwise you would have no choice than to believe me :)

Hey Benoit L.!

Sorry for the slow reply!

[Web Server ] [26-Mar-2022 19:32:57 UTC] PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'C:\wamp64\www\api-platform\start/vendor/autoload.php'

Hmm. This looks like you should run composer install. Did you run that? There is a README.md file in each directory (start or finish) with the commands you'll need to get everything up and running.

concerning the .htaccess file it is in the cache folder both in the start and the finish projects

Ah, the cache/ folder - var/cache right? Interesting. When I download the course code from this page, there is NO var/ directory at all (which is correct: this file is created on demand by Symfony whenever it's needed). But, it doesn't really matter: the cache directory isn't meant to be publicly accessible anyways, so an .htaccess in that directory wouldn't cause any problems :).

Cheers!

Yes, sorry for this. I've got a new error now when I run:

$ php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

Attempted to call an undefined method named "getAllRawData" of class "Composer\InstalledVersions"

Hey Benoit L.!

Sorry for the slow reply! Hmm. Try upgrading Composer. I'm seeing that this getAllRawData() method, which lives in Composer, was introduced in version 2.0.14. That's my first guess: it's a very odd error :/.

Cheers!

Hey Elliott,

We're sorry about that. Unfortunately, this course isn't compatible with PHP 8 out of the box, and we warn about it with a tooltip when you download the course code. We do recommend to run the course project code on PHP 7.x to be able execute "composer install" command successfully. But if you do want to run it on PHP 8 - you would need to update the dependencies that may lead to more required steps to make the project code to work on PHP 8.

The change you made in the composer.json is the first step. But looks like this course is based on Symfony 4.2, and the latest version 4.2.12 does not support PHP 8 either, see: https://github.com/symfony/...

So, to be able to run this project on PHP 8 - you will need to upgrade Symfony to 4.4 at least first, that may require more work. If you want - you can go this way, or fallback to PHP 7.x.

I hope this helps!

Cheers!

Hey Serkan,

It's difficult to tell you what's wrong exactly. Please, try to debug things yourself. Error message will give you some hints about what file, what line. Open that file and try to debug the argument that is supplied to that foreach - you can use "dd($variableName)" to dump the variable. Then, try to debug why you're passing there not an array and where. Then, it should be easy to fix.

I hope this helps!

Cheers!

Hey Covi A.

If you're using Docker, first double-check that your MySql instance it's up and running, then, you'll have to run symfony commands through the Symfony CLI symfony console doctrine:database:create, so it can automatically inject the right environment variables, for example, the database URL coming from your Docker instance
Here you can download the Symfony CLI https://symfony.com/download

Cheers!

Hey Dennis B.

Did you notice if a "recipe" was installed when you installed ApiPlatform? You should have gotten this file config/routes/api_platform.yaml
Cheers!

Hi MolloKhan !

Yes, that file I have. And it contains:
`api_platform:

mapping:
    paths: ['%kernel.project_dir%/src/Entity']
patch_formats:
    json: ['application/merge-patch+json']
swagger:
    versions: [3]`

I believe you checked the wrong file. I'm talking about the file inside config/routes. Its content should be like this one https://github.com/symfony/recipes/blob/master/api-platform/core/2.1/config/routes/api_platform.yaml

Cheers!

Ah, okay. Sorry.
Also this file I have and it looks exactly like the one on github, you did link.

Hmm, that's really weird. What's the output of `bin/console debug:router`? For some reason it's not loading the ApiPlatform route

The output doesn't show any route.
`➜ api-platform git:(master) ✗ bin/console debug:router

Name Method Scheme Host Path

➜ api-platform git:(master) ✗`

"api-platform" is also the folder's name of my project. But I cannot imagine that this would be a problem.

Well, since I had not really a project so far, I decided to throw everything away and gave it a new try.

So, I copied the stuff from the tutorial's "start" directory, adjusted the packages' version numbers to 5.x, reinstalled the packages and now it works fine.

Hey Dennis B.

Sorry for my slow reply. I believe you had a configuration problem. Your routes weren't being loaded for some reason. I'm glad to hear that your project it's set up now. Let us know if you run into more troubles

Cheers!

Hi guys, thanks for the great work. I am having the same problem, but I have a larger project that I cannot afford to rewrite. Any other ideas, why it is not loading the routes? I have tried a new project and it work with that. I have also for testing purposes removed my access_control rules (left only - { path: ^/, roles: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY })

I am using in some cases groups and serializer and json response to make some rest endpoints. Can that collide?

Nevermind. Composer install was the trick. It runs now. My bad :)