Web Service REST

[infophp]

Hi all

I want to implement a web service with Symfony 2 using REST and Json, but i diden't find doccumentation about that
please can anyone help me to do that.

thx for all

[blogsh]

Where are you stuck exactly?

You can define a requirement on the method of a request in your routes:

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    /**
     * @Route("/rest", requirements={"_method" = "GET"})
     */
    public function getAction()
    {
        return new Response('<form method="post" action="/rest"><input type="submit" value="Click" /></form>');
    }

    /**
     * @Route("/rest", requirements={"_method" = "POST"})
     */
    public function postAction()
    {
        return new Response('POST');
    }

And you can return json data either if you use the default PHP methods for json and set the content-type of your response:

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$response = new Response(json_encode($myArray));
$response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/json');

It's also possible to define the response format in the route so you can omit the last line:

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    /**
     * @Route("/rest", requirements={"_method" = "GET"}, defaults={"_format" = "json"})
     */
    public function showAction()
    {
        $data = /* ... */;
        return new Response(json_encode($data));
    }

A all-in-one alternative seems to be FOSRestBundle: https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle

[infophp]

thx you so much for your help it helps me a lot.

[bass_rock]

How can you use the FOSRestBundle with FOSUserManager so that the user has to login first, and you can make requests with the specified user?