Laravel api setup

All the api setup I dread creating for every project. Concised down to a single plugin.

• It gives you JSON-webtoken authentication (using the awesome tymondesigns/jwt-auth).
• It gives you model transformation (using the fantastic fractal-package)
• It also gives you some sweet api-helper methods for returning resources and errors and more.

Install

1. Add service provider.

// config/app.php
...
Maxhill\Api\ApiServiceProvider::class,
...

2. Add route middleware.

// app/Http/Kernel.php
...
'jwt.auth' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Middleware\GetUserFromToken',
'jwt.refresh' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Middleware\RefreshToken',
...

3. Publish vendors.

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Maxhill\Api\ApiServiceProvider"
$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\JWTAuthServiceProvider"

4. Generate jwt-secret.

$ php artisan jwt:generate

5. Remove csrf-token middleware.

// app/Http/Kernel.php
'Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken',

Usage

Authentication

• Use route middleware

Require the user to be logged in to access a route:

Route::post('whatever', [
    'uses' =>'WhateverController@index',
    'middleware' => 'jwt.auth'
]);

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• Use authenticate routes

Authentication is already setup. Just post to /authenticate with the email and password of the user you want to sign in.

You may change the /authenticate-route to whatever you like in the config file config/api.php

Controllers

###Extend ApiController.

Make sure your api-controllers extends Maxhill\Api\Http\Controllers\ApiController; and not the default App\Http\Controller

###Use transformers for returning.

Example user model transformer;

<?php
# app/Transformers/UserTransformer.php

namespace App\Transformers;

use App\User;
use League\Fractal\TransformerAbstract;

class UserTransformer extends TransformerAbstract
{

    /**
     * Turn this item object into a generic array
     *
     * @param User $user
     * @return array
     */
    public function transform(User $user)
    {
        return [
            'id' => (int)$user->id,
            'name' => $user->name,
            'email' => $user->email
        ];
    }

}

Using the UserTransformer:

    # app/Http/Controllers/WhateverController.php

    public function index()
    {
        $users = User::all();
        return $this->respondWithCollection($users, new UserTransformer);
    }

###ApiController - methods

• user() // Returns false or user object parsed from auth token

#####Respond with data:

• respondWithItem()
• respondWithCollection()
• respondWithArray()

#####Error-responses:

• respondWithError()
• errorForbidden()
• errorInternalError()
• errorNotFound()
• errorUnauthorized()
• `errorWrongArgs()