Chapters

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01

The Serializer: Swiss-Army Knife of APIs

7:58
02

Serializer Configuration (SerializationContext)

4:46
03

Serializer Annotations

2:59
04

Requiring Authentication

6:32
05

Authorization via a Token

7:13
06

Securing More Endpoints

3:05
07

Authentication Error Format

7:08
08

Centralizing Error Response Creation

4:25
09

Creating Token Resources in the API

10:14
10

Reuse and Consistency

5:22
11

Validate that Token Resource

3:51
12

New Battle Resource (the Scenario)

5:06
13

Start (Create) an Epic Battle (Resource)

5:42
14

GET Your (One) Battle On

4:47
15

Battles and Programmer - Link them!

3:42
16

I <3 HATEOAS Installation

7:22
17

HATEOAS Loves Routers

3:12
18

Adding Real Links with HATEOAS

3:08
19

Hypermedia vs. Media (Buzzwords!)

4:50
20

We can Embed Resources Too

2:58
21

Fun with the HAL Browser!

2:40
22

Collections: The HAL Way

4:25
23

Link to a Subordinate Resource!

7:23
24

A Homepage for your API?

6:10
25

API Pagination Done Easily

8:48
26

Filtering and HATEOAS (The Buzzword)

4:40

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This tutorial uses a deprecated micro-framework called Silex. The fundamentals of REST are still ?valid, but the code we use can't be used in a real application.

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RESTful APIs in the Real World Course 2

Dive into RESTful APIs: This course offers in-depth understanding of a serializer, token authentication and more!

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About this course

This tutorial uses a deprecated micro-framework called Silex. The fundamentals of REST are still ?valid, but the code we use can't be used in a real application.

What PHP libraries does this tutorial use?

// composer.json
{
    "require": {
        "silex/silex": "~1.0", // v1.3.2
        "symfony/twig-bridge": "~2.1", // v2.7.3
        "symfony/security": "~2.4", // v2.7.3
        "doctrine/dbal": "^2.5.4", // v2.5.4
        "monolog/monolog": "~1.7.0", // 1.7.0
        "symfony/validator": "~2.4", // v2.7.3
        "symfony/expression-language": "~2.4", // v2.7.3
        "jms/serializer": "~0.16", // 0.16.0
        "willdurand/hateoas": "~2.3" // v2.3.0
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "behat/mink": "~1.5", // v1.5.0
        "behat/mink-goutte-driver": "~1.0.9", // v1.0.9
        "behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "~1.1.1", // v1.1.1
        "behat/behat": "~2.5", // v2.5.5
        "behat/mink-extension": "~1.2.0", // v1.2.0
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~5.7.0", // 5.7.27
        "guzzle/guzzle": "~3.7" // v3.9.3
    }
}

Making RESTful APIs is hard, really hard. There are a lot of concepts to know - resources, representations, HTTP methods, status codes, etc.

Course 1 got us really comfortable with all the terminology. So in episode 2, we're attacking the hard stuff:

Using a serializer
Token Authentication System (Silex's security system)
Hypermedia versus media
The HAL hypermedia type
The HATEOAS PHP library
The HAL Browser
Embedding resources (versus adding links)
Tricks with Behat for testing API's
Pagination and filtering
A lot of other pieces in between!

This stuff is not easy. But if you make it through, you'll be armed to attack whatever API need you have.

Next courses in the APIs: Beginner: Learn REST Fundamentals section of the APIs Track!

RESTful APIs in the Real World Course 1

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Hikaru Shindo 6 years ago

I'm really looking forward to see this course coming up! Can't wait for it ;)

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Nikos C. 6 years ago

no video download?

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weaverryan SFCASTS Nikos C. 6 years ago

Hey!

Sorry for the delay - the video download is up there now.

Cheers!

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Guest 6 years ago

no video download available?

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Matt 6 years ago

Any time frame as to when this course will be released?

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weaverryan SFCASTS Matt 6 years ago

No timeline currently, but we do have the coding done, which means we're quite far along. Best case-scenario 1 month, but we'll try to release things piece-by-piece. You can press the "Notify Me" button on top and we'll email you when anything comes out :).

Thanks!

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Luis Lopes 6 years ago

Looking forward to have this covered :) Thanks!!

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Pablo María Martelletti 6 years ago

Hi Guys,

In this post:

http://knpuniversity.com/bl...

you talked about possibly creating 2 tutorials: one for generic PHP and one for Symfony, using FOSRestBundle. I've already been digging in the first screencast, Rest, but I see that this second episode is still not about Symfony. Are still planning to release this Symfony screencast?

Cheers! Thanks a lot for your work! :)

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weaverryan SFCASTS Pablo María Martelletti 6 years ago

Hi Pablo!

It will be a bit off in the future, but yes, I think it's still something I'd like to do! In these episodes, we'll cover all the real work and knowledge you need for the REST API. A potential future Symfony version would just show you the specific implementation details inside of Symfony. So it wouldn't have all of the meat that these episodes have, but I think it would still be very useful. If you're on our mailing list, we'll definitely let you know.

Cheers and you're very welcome :)

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Maki V. 6 years ago

You guys - are creating the best tutorials ever! I mean seriously! If this was A TV channel I would start watching TV again and never missed an episode. Hey, let's make a deal - if I find any newblood I will send them immediately here and on your part -> you will keep up good work! :)

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weaverryan SFCASTS Maki V. 6 years ago edited

Yo Milan V.! You just made our day :). Comment shared in our internal Slack for everyone. Thanks for super nice comment :D :D

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Maki V. weaverryan 6 years ago

You are welcome, mate. Just don't forget our bargain, tho! :D

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Zuhair 6 years ago

Just finished Ep1, can't wait for more programmer battle awesomeness! any updates on when Ep2 is out?

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weaverryan SFCASTS Zuhair 6 years ago

Ha, awesome! We're working on ep2 (will be *great*), but it's still at least a few weeks out. Make sure you're subscribed for notifications at the top of this page and we'll shoot you an email.

Thanks!

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andreas 6 years ago

Hola - the Course 3 ( http://knpuniversity.com/sc... ) does not exist, can help on how do I can learn the documentation part ?

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Victor SFCASTS andreas 6 years ago

Hey Andreas,

Womp womp womp... unfortunately, we don't have any courses to cover API docs, but here's a few most popular bundles on GitHub which has good docs will help you with it:
- FriendsOfPHP/Sami
- nelmio/NelmioApiDocBundle
- ApiGen/ApiGen

I hope this helps.

Cheers!

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Pascal Borreli 6 years ago

little typo here HATOEAS => HATEOAS

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weaverryan SFCASTS Pascal Borreli 6 years ago

Thanks Pascal! Updated :)

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Sergio 6 years ago

Hello Guys, where is the download link ?

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weaverryan SFCASTS Sergio 6 years ago

Hi Sergio!

If you own this chapter (or have a subscription), you should see the download link in the upper right on any video page (not this page, but any of the individual chapter pages). If you don't have a subscription, but want to get the source files, you can grab the starting point of the project here: https://github.com/knpunive.... It's on our list to make this an easier download link for non-subscribers :).

Cheers!

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Jake 6 years ago

I need help how to setup an endpoint for this scenario...

I have a resource called Products and the following endpoint returns the list of products: /products.json

Suppose I want to return a representation which contains only a key/pair of the id and name of the product.

e.g:
[
1: 'CD',
2: 'Monitor',
3: 'Keyboard'
]

Should passing a parameter be the correct solution for this?

/product.json?type=list

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weaverryan SFCASTS Jake 6 years ago

Hey Jake!

Ah, philosophical REST questions, they're mostly touch because either nobody has an answer, or the answer makes your life unnecessarily difficult :).

In this case, this is clearly a "Product collection" representation, just not the normal JSON structure that you usually use. So, philosophically, I think it *is* correct to use the same `/product.json` URL that you use for the normal return. Now, *usually* if an endpoint returns different formats, you're supposed to read the Accept header sent by the client. Normally, the use-case is that your API endpoint returns JSON or XML, and the Accept header tells the server which one the client wants. But here, technically, *this* JSON representation and the normal JSON representation are just different "formats" of the same resource. So one "technically" right answer might be that you give this type of response some new Content-Type (e.g. application/vnd.simple-list+json) and read the Accept header to see if they want this format over the normal one.

But in practice, that looks *crazy* to me. Go with your query parameter - it still follows most of these rules, but is also pretty practical. Try to minimize custom things like this, but at the same time, if you're building your API for your *own* consumption (i.e. you're not creating a public API), you can bend the rules a bit more.

Great question - I love (and hate) this stuff! :P

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Joan 6 years ago

Well, just finished my first viewing! Sweet stuff, time to rewatch it and build something now! Congrats guys!

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