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To simplify my application I'm trying to build my application to run off its own REST API using the REST controller. If I funnel both external API calls and internal functionality through the API then I will reduce complexity and insure that the API functionality is always working as expected since the main app itself relies on the API. Maybe I'm just being too ambitious... To call the internal local REST API from within my APP I'm doing the following:

Request::forge('api/v1/test' )->set_method('POST')->execute( array( 'apples' ) )->response()

The problem is that set_method() does not impact the method that is called. If I am accessing the page that calls this then it loads get_test() rather than post_test() based on calling set_method( 'POST' ). I see that in the core rest.php the following occurs:

$controller_method = strtolower(\Input::method()) . '_' . $resource;

This makes it look like there is no way to properly use the REST API directly from within my app via Request::forge(). Is there a workaround to this or am I SOL in doing this within FuelPHP? If what I am trying to do is not possible is there a better practice? I don't want to be making curl requests for sure. My other option is to just use the REST system to funnel API calls to other classes/methods.
Thanks!
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