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Sultan
Sultan

Reputation: 148

How to create Api of REST full web Services using Laravel 5.3

I have created CRUD application using laravel 5.3 in XAMPP following this tutorial now I have to create RESTful API of this CRUD application so that I was able to perform CRUD operation from android app. anyone who helps Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 798

Answers (1)

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro

Reputation: 87719

The difference between API calls and a normal HTML app are basically on the response, usually your controllers respond with views(), so they can be rendered:

/// Get the data
$books=Book::all();

/// HTML response
return view('books.index',compact('books'));

An API usually responds with JSON, which in Laravel is as easy as doing 

/// Get the data
$books=Book::all();

/// JSON response
return response()->json($books);

or as simple as 

return Book::all();

or

return Book::all()->toJson();

Another thing you have to think about in your app architecture are the routes, to differentiate web from api, I usually create my endpoints as

/api/books/1

Instead of

/books/1

This is done in your routes

Route::get('/api/books/{id}', 'BookController@show');

You should read a little about API creation too, because API architecture is is hard, endpoints get messy really fast and easy, this is a nice book on APIs https://leanpub.com/build-apis-you-wont-hate

Upvotes: 5

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