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Reputation: 753

What to use in creating Json Web service in Zend framework for Android/Iphone application

I using Zend Framework for Developing my web application , I want to create a Web services for an Android application , the content type will be JSON.

what is the best way to create this webservice ? is it a Controller and this Controller will extend the Action controller 

class ApiController extends Frontend_Controller_Action

or to use Zend_Json_Server . I am little confused , what the zend Json Server will help better than ApiController ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2599

Answers (1)

Ivan Zmerzlyi
Ivan Zmerzlyi

Reputation: 171

Read about Zend_Rest_Controller. Use it instead of Zend_Controller_Action. It very simple. Zend_Rest_Controller is just an abstract controller with a list of predefined Actions that you should implement in your Controllers. Short example, I used it like Index Controller in Api module:

class Api_IndexController extends Zend_Rest_Controller 
{
    public function init()
    {
        $bootstrap = $this->getInvokeArg('bootstrap');
        $this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
        $this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender(TRUE);
        $this->_helper->AjaxContext()
                ->addActionContext('get','json')
                ->addActionContext('post','json')
                ->addActionContext('new','json')
                ->addActionContext('edit','json')
                ->addActionContext('put','json')
                ->addActionContext('delete','json')
                ->initContext('json');
     }

     public function indexAction()
     {
         $method = $this->getRequest()->getParam('method');
         $response = new StdClass();
         $response->status = 1;

         if($method != null){
             $response->method = $method;
             switch ($method) {
                case 'category':
                 ...
                break;
                case 'products':
                 ...
                break;
                default:
                $response->error = "Method '" . $response->method . "' not exist!!!";
             }
         }

         $content = $this->_helper->json($response);
         $this->sendResponse($content);
     }

     private function sendResponse($content){
        $this->getResponse()
           ->setHeader('Content-Type', 'json')
           ->setBody($content)
           ->sendResponse();
        exit;
     }

     public function getAction()
     {}

     public function postAction()
     {}

     public function putAction()
     {}

     public function deleteAction()
     {}
}

Upvotes: 5

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