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kchan4

Say I want to achieve something like this:

/api/users/1/posts/1

How would I do it?

Far as I know, say if I only want the following:

/api/users

I will do:

public function get_users()

{

}

but if I want to let them specify a particular user 1 (or to accept a subresource parameter), say:

/api/users/1

its requires to be:

public get_users($userid)

{

}

But declaring same name is not allowed, so how can I achieve such behavior?

kchan4

Never mind, I just notice I would write optional parameter and its all working fine.

But its looks like as the sub-resources goes deeper, the logic within get_users will increasing as there is no way to separate the sub-resources into different function.

i.e.

/api/users/1/posts/1

Will be

public function get_users($userid = null, $subresource_dir = null, $subresource_id, $subresource_dir2, $subresource2_id ......)

{

if ($userid != null)

{

$subresources_result = $this->get_subresources($userid, subresource_dir , subresource_id);

if ($subresources_result )

{

return $subresources_result ;

}

return $this->get_users_detail($userid)

}

return $this->get_users_detail();

}

Harro

You could use a route to rewrite /api/users/1/posts/1 to
/api/userposts/1/1 and use a different controller for it?

kchan4

I think you are right!

So I guess if I want to do versioning the API, I can write route to rewrite

/api/v1/users/1/posts/1 to /api/v1_userposts/1/1

/api/v2/users/1/posts/1 to /api/v2_userposts/1/1

etc...

Thanks!

Harro

If you want to keep the code in a single controller, you can also give your controller a router() method. It gets both the method called and the arguments, so you can use that to dispatch the request to different methods.

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