API Platform: Serious RESTful APIs

Hey Sébastien JEAN

We are actively releasing a new course about Api Platform + Symfony + Vue.js. I know it's not ReactJS but its internals are very similar
https://symfonycasts.com/sc...

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Hey,
Are you planning to release a course with API Platform and ReactJS ?

Wow, nice work Kiss Dávid! Thanks for sharing - I was interested if this was ultimately going to work - very cool.

Thank you for your answer and sorry for my late reaction, i was lost in space. :D
During this time, i found a solution for my 'challenge :)' The following two posts helped me to handle the custom URLs: post 1 and Post 2. I had to modify some methods to handle the account id dynamically. In the close future i will add URL or IRI generator class(es) to handle the sub-sub URLs (similar to sub-sub-resources). Besides in my case i had to add a custom data provider, due to the usage of the account id. Fortunately i could add the APIP-way pagination, filtering and searching support to custom data providers. (The ODM way wasn't clear at the first look. :) )

Hey Vladimir Leitenberger!

Interesting idea... it's not currently on my list to cover for the next "security" tutorial... because they're kinda two separate things. But, I've upvoted this in our internal idea list - it's something that we *may* cover, but I don't have any timing yet.

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Hey Kiss Dávid!

Thanks for the nice words! And yes, we'll get to the custom controller stuff... API stuff is such a huge topic - we need a few parts :).

About your questions... I don't think there's good news here. As you maybe already saw, this isn't supported currently (https://github.com/api-plat....... which means you'll need to add this stuff manually. That's not a total loss... you'll still be able to rely on API Platform's serialization/deserialization stuff, validation, security, etc. There *may* be some more clever way to make this all work.. but I haven't played with it yet. For example, in "theory" (big quotes... as I've tried none of this!), you could do this by filling in a few pieces. Basically, the goal would be customize things so that Store could be a normal ApiResource, which just has this custom URL:

1) customize the URL of each operation in Store (I think this needs to be done for each individual operation)
2) To make the above work, I think you will need a getAccountId() method inside Store, so that API platform knows what to use for the account_id part in the IRI when generating it.
3) You may also need a custom data provider so that you can use the account_id in a custom query to return all of the stores.

And... probably there are 5 other small details - I really don't know, unfortunately. But, for me, it would be worth trying to see if you can get the above to work, as it would ultimately allow you to use ApiPlatform in a "normal" way, instead of needing to make a lot of custom endpoints.

Let me know what you find out!

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Yep! Sorry about that! The tutorials tend to evolve as we write them :). In this case, there was too much to cover in part one - but it's still planned for the future.

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Hey weaverryan !
First of all i'd like to thanks your tutorials, i really like those and are really helpful.
I agree with Gabriel's post, APIP is really good, but now i have a problem with custom URLs. My goal is to use a url scheme, where the first 2 parameters reference to account and account id, and most of the URLs contain it. The following parameters are store, products and so on. e.g.: /account/account_id/stores or /account/account_id/store/store_id/products...
The sub-resources would be good, but unfortunately it supports GET operation only. I try to find a proper solution for my problem, but i haven't found it yet. I hope you can give me some starter points how i can manage this URL structure.
Thanks in advance!

Hey Br!

Good news for you - we're going to cover GraphQL topic as well, but we will do it in further episodes. This is a big topic and we wanted to make a separate episode for this.

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Why did you change the name from "API Platform: Serious RESTful & GraphQL API" to "API Platform: Serious RESTful APIs"? :(
I was waiting for the GraphQL part the most.

Yes, I know about this feature, Kevin talked about it in a twitter conversation -> https://twitter.com/MrConsp..., it's still a little obscure and not very intuitive to implement, "just for a simple endpoint", Thks

Hey Gabriel Mustiere!

I agree 💯! We will cover it, but not in this tutorial. And yes, the docs are a bit confusing on this topic, as the "best" way to do it is kinda changing... I'm talking to Kevin about this. So, we will get there - but not until probably part 3 (part 2 will all be about security). Until then, the way described in the docs is perfectly fine. We're also going to talk about Messenger and how you can create endpoints that dispatch "messages" into Messenger (this is also something that API Platform has a bit about in their docs).

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Hey weaverryan, API Platform is really good for making projects quickly, but I've never met (or it's very rare), APIs without the need to make custom endpoints (I think the official documentation is confusing on the subject), do you plan to cover the subject, I'm in chapter 20. Thanks for the great job you do.

what about "API Platform: OAuth2 Server" tutorial ?

Hey ElGovanni

Sorry but I don't fully get your question. What you mean by "3rd party developers with limits"?

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Can we use api platform to publish it for 3rd part developers with limits?

:)

No-Docker API Platform tutorial. Finally! #dockersucks

Hey @Fabio!

We're not planning on it for the first tutorial, but it is on our radar for a future tutorial - I'll give it an internal upvote ;).

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Hi, does this course cover live updates with mercure protocol

Bah, ok *tomorrow*, I promise - we hit a last-second snag. Sorry about that!

Wednesday :)

any news ?

Hey Romeo,

Thank you for your feedback! We will cover CRUD in this course, and will slightly mention GraphQL, but, unfortunately, GraphQL won't be a part of basics. We're going to cover GraphQL in a separate course - this topic deserves a separate tutorial.

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Awesome!

It's good.
I'm going to add GraphQL into Api-Platform and also with Symfony Flex.
Did you include CRUD by GraphQL in this course? please.

Hey Amin,

Yes, we're going to cover oneToMany relation in this course, but probably not much complex than that, just simple oneToMany - it will be just basics of API-Platform.

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In Symfony I used to create a complex form, specially for oneToMany relations, you know using collection type, allow_add and other fascinating options, so is there anyway to have it in api platform? does this course cover things like this ?

Hey Manoj Kumar

This course is totally focused on API Platform, so it won't cover how to develop an API in a TDD way. If you are interested in TDD, we have some courses about it (PHPSpec, PHPUnit, Behat), https://symfonycasts.com/tr...

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This is what I was looking for !!

Hey Manoj,

Thank you for your interest in this topic! See my answer for more context: https://symfonycasts.com/sc...

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Hey Imad,

Unfortunately no, not in this episode at least. Security is a big separate topic, we're definitely going to cover it, but in next episodes. In this one we're going to cover basics only. Thank you for understanding!

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Will it cover TDD for APIs?

It would be nice to have it

Nice!

hahaha, we all have to wait ;)

Cool,
does this course cover API security with API-Platform ? :)

Finally

Waiting for it.......:D https://media2.giphy.com/me...