README

Rest API for CakePHP 5.x

Configuration

• Some configuration can be done using env variables (search for env( in the project to find usages).

• Some configuration when working with plugins can be done from the main configuration (config/app.php file).

  • Using the key Swagger is optional, but can be helpful to customize some directories (search for read('Swagger for details)
  • As sibling from the main App configuration use the namespace of the plugin followed by the word Plugin.

For example, if your plugin namespace is called Example, create the following config file:

return [
    'debug' => false,
    'App' => [ ... ],
    'Swagger' => [ ... ]
    'ExamplePlugin' => [
        'tablePrefix' => 'example_',
        'routePath' => '/api/v1',
        'routePath2' => '/api/v2',
    ],
];

The following configuration can be used:

• tablePrefix: (optional) in case you want to add a prefix for you database tables, e.g. myplugin_users. Can be empty string.
• routePath: Definition for the beginning of the path for all routes in the plugin
• routePath2: (optional) a second path prefix under which all the plugin routes are additionally registered, e.g. to expose the same routes under both /api/v1 and /api/v2. When empty or not set, only routePath is used.

Swagger

In order to make swagger UI with openapi description available, a new controller SwaggerJsonController must be created, with the corresponding route definition. The method getContent can be overwritten in this controller in order to add customization for the main spec info (title, description, version, etc.). Swagger generation can be configured as described in the Configuration section above.

In any controller test the function $this->skipNextRequestInSwagger() can be used to do not add the next request.

Swagger configuration keys

All of the following live under the Swagger key in config/app.php (read via Configure::read('Swagger.*')). Every key is optional and falls back to a sensible default when not set.

• readerClass: Fully qualified class name of the reader used to build the spec. Default: \RestApi\Lib\Swagger\FileReader\SwaggerReader.
• apiVersion: Version string shown under info.version in the generated spec. Default: an auto-generated, date-based version (e.g. 9.24.121530).
• jsonDir: Directory where the generated json spec files are stored and read from. Default: ROOT/<swaggerPath>/.
• fullFileDir: Directory where the single combined (full) json spec is written. When null, falls back to the SWAGGER_RELATIVE_FILE_DIR env variable (appended to ROOT); when false or empty the full file is not generated; when true (or '1') the default jsonDir is used.
• fullFileName: File name for the combined full json spec. When empty, falls back to the SWAGGER_FULL_FILE_NAME env variable, then to the built-in default (SwaggerReader::FULL_SWAGGER_JSON).
• identifyEntities: Boolean. When truthy, entities expose their class name as a virtual field in the serialized output (used to identify entity types in the spec).
• displayErrorResponses: Boolean. When falsy (default), non-success responses (status codes outside 200–399) are removed from the spec; set truthy to keep error responses.
• displayMethodsWithoutOk: Boolean. When falsy (default), methods that have no success (200–399) response are removed from the spec; set truthy to keep them.
• addRoutePrefix: String prepended to every route path collected for the spec.
• acceptLanguage: Description (or value) for the Accept-Language header in generated requests. When false the header is omitted; when empty a default descriptive string is used.

Swagger environment variables

Some Swagger behaviour is configured via environment variables (getenv) instead of config/app.php:

• SWAGGER_NAMESPACE_TO_REMOVE (and SWAGGER_NAMESPACE_TO_REMOVE_1 … SWAGGER_NAMESPACE_TO_REMOVE_20): Namespace prefixes to strip from generated type/schema names. When building a type name the entity class name has Model\Entity\ removed and every remaining \ replaced with Ns, so e.g. RestApi\Model\Entity\LogEntry becomes RestApiNsLogEntry. Setting SWAGGER_NAMESPACE_TO_REMOVE=RestApi strips the RestApi\ prefix first, yielding just LogEntry. Note this only removes leading namespace prefixes, e.g. SWAGGER_NAMESPACE_TO_REMOVE=Course turns CourseNsRanking (from Course\Ranking) into Ranking. Up to 21 values can be configured (the unsuffixed key plus suffixes _1 through _20).
• SWAGGER_RELATIVE_FILE_DIR: Fallback directory for the combined full json spec, appended to ROOT. Only used when Swagger.fullFileDir is null.
• SWAGGER_FULL_FILE_NAME: Fallback file name for the combined full json spec. Only used when Swagger.fullFileName is empty (before falling back to the built-in FULLswagger.json).

Logs in database

Logs in database can be easily enabled.

Just add to the Log section in config/app.php the className \RestApi\Lib\DatabaseLog::class and add a migration with phinx:

$this->table('log_entries', ['collation' => 'utf8mb4_general_ci', 'id' => false])
    ->addColumn('id', 'biginteger', [
        'autoIncrement' => true,
        'default' => null,
        'limit' => null,
        'null' => false,
        'signed' => false,
    ])
    ->addPrimaryKey(['id'])
    ->addColumn('type', 'string', [
        'default' => null,
        'limit' => 50,
        'null' => true,
    ])
    ->addColumn('title', 'string', [
        'default' => null,
        'limit' => 30,
        'null' => true,
    ])
    ->addColumn('message', 'text', [
        'default' => null,
        'limit' => null,
        'null' => true,
    ])
    ->addColumn('environment', 'string', [
        'default' => null,
        'limit' => 100,
        'null' => true,
    ])
    ->addColumn('server', 'text', [
        'default' => null,
        'limit' => null,
        'null' => true,
    ])
    ->addColumn('created', 'datetime', [
        'default' => null,
        'limit' => null,
        'null' => true,
    ])
    ->addIndex(
        [
            'created',
        ]
    )
    ->create();

License

The source code for the site is licensed under the MIT license, which you can find in the LICENSE file.