Making RESTful APIs is hard, really hard. There are a lot of concepts to know - resources, representations, HTTP methods, status codes, etc. And putting this all to life in a sane way in PHP is no small task. In this course, we'll learn all…

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…

Need to build an API and love the process? You've come to the right place. Built on top of Symfony, API Platform enables you to build a rich, JSON-LD-powered, hypermedia API... pretty much instantly (we'll even teach you what those buzzwords…

When we throw an ApiProblemException, we need our app to automatically turn that into a nicely-formatted API Problem JSON response and return it. That code will look like what we have down here for validation, but it needs to live in a global spot…

API Platform is crushing the scene these days. And it's easy to see why! Built on top of Symfony, API Platform enables you to build a rich, JSON-LD-powered, hypermedia API... pretty much instantly! In this tutorial, we'll build a real app…

…hating it Controlling your JSON fields with VirtualProperty and SerializedName Customizing your input field names with property_path The wonderful HATEOAS php library HAL+JSON... and whether you want to use it or not Subordinate resources! Handle ugly, non-RESTful, weird endpoints with some swagger

After 3 tutorials, we've got a nice API, But we've been completely ignoring authentication. What about API tokens? Or properly handling errors? Thanks to some modern tools, this will be such a treat: Understanding JSON web tokens (JWT) Creating, signing & returning JWT's…

The basics, check! Errors, double check! Now let's get back to some core API concepts and take things up a level by covering a bunch of features that you need... but sometimes can't find related to REST! REST Pagination Including next/prev pagination…

In course 1, we added our basic endpoints with some nice tests (yes!). Now, we turn to a huge part of APIs: handling and returning consistent errors. Seriously, this is more important than you might think - which is why we're covering this in episode…

In this series, we get to work: by building the same API in the REST series, but leveraging all the amazing tools and libraries of the Symfony framework. If terminology like representations, resources, and hypermedia are new to you, start with the REST series and…

Stripe has a nice, RESTful API, and you're going to spend a lot of time talking with it. Google for "Stripe API docs" to find this amazing page. You can set this as your new homepage: it describes every endpoint: how to create charges…

Let's get to work customizing our API. A RESTful API is all about resources. We have one resource - our CheeseListing - and, by default, API Platform generated 5 endpoints for it. These are called "operations". Operations are divided into two categories. First, "collection" operations. These…

The Serializer: Swiss-Army Knife of APIs¶ Hey guys! Welcome to episode 2 of our RESTFUL API’s in the real world series. In episode 1 we covered a lot of the basics. Phew! And explained really important confusing terms like representations, resources, idempotency, GET…

…Fortunately, our tools have never been better. Unfortunately - and surprisingly - building a RESTful API can be *really* tough. But in the future, we won't let that stop us. This series is all about uncovering and unpacking the strange world of REST and building real…

…to the rules too much, you’ll get buried in technical draft specifications and blog post. You’ll also get the feeling that a perfectly RESTful API might be impossible, and it would probably be pretty tough to use anyways. Instead, we’ll build a…

…But... if you want to get technical about things... this solution isn't RESTful: it sort of turns our authentication endpoint into what looks like a "user" resource. But, don't let that get in your way: if you do want to return the User…

… echo "\n\n"; The URL is /api/programmers/{nickname}, where the nickname part changes based on which programmer you want to get. In a RESTful API, the URL structures don’t actually matter. But to keep your sanity, if /api/programmers returns the collection of…

…If you want to check it out, it's inside of the src/AppBundle/Controller directory: RepLogController: I have a bunch of different RESTful API endpoints and one is called, deleteRepLogAction(): As long as we make a DELETE request to /reps/ID-of-the-rep…

…add a method called apiMe(). Give this an @Route() - autocomplete the one from the Symfony Component - and set the URL to /api/me: This isn't a very restful endpoint, but it's often a convenient one to have. To require authentication to use this…

…3, we're taking customizations to the next level: A RESTful implementation of a "publish" action Complex ACL rules around who can publish under different conditions Doing custom actions before save with a data persister Truly custom fields via a data provider Completely-custom, non…