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Wrap your service APIs in a web layer

Composer Install

composer require symbiote/silverstripe-apiwrapper:~1.0

Requirements

• SilverStripe 4.1+

Documentation

Quick start

Suppose we have a class Symbiote\Watch\WatchService that we want to expose to web requests via /api/v1/watch/{methodname}

First, implement webEnabledMethods, returning an array of methods mapping to the request types that can trigger them, ie

    public function webEnabledMethods()
    {
        return [
            'store' => 'POST',
            'list' => 'GET',
        ];
    }

In config;

---
Name: my_webservices
---
Symbiote\ApiWrapper\ApiWrapperController:
  versions:
    v1:
      watch: 'WatchServiceApiController' # The name of an injector service

SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
  WatchServiceApiController: # Referenced by above
    class: Symbiote\ApiWrapper\ServiceWrapperController
    properties:
      service: %$Symbiote\Watch\WatchService

Additional Options

The return of webEnabledMethods can provide additional information, such as

return [
  'list' => [
    'type' => 'GET', 
    'call' => 'myMethod', // the name of a method on the service to execute 
    'public' => true,
    'match' => 'regex; see below',
    'perm' => 'CMS_Access_etc'
  ]
]

match

You can define a regex in the 'match' key which allows you to match parameters from the URL substring that is left after the api and method paths are removed.

Note that you must define regex using named capture groups.

For example

'match' => '(?<parent>\d+)'

and the URL

/api/v1/list/12

will call the 'list' method with the $parent parameter set to 12.

Note that this must be the full URL match, meaning you should have a capture group for all parts of the URL. In other words, the 'match' string is wrapped in "{^" . $match . "$}" for the regex that actually gets executed.

Token-based authentcation

Add the user token extension for users and then add the token authenticator middleware

SilverStripe\Security\Member:
  extensions:
    - Symbiote\ApiWrapper\TokenAccessible

SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
  SilverStripe\Security\AuthenticationHandler:
    properties:
      Handlers:
        token: '%$Symbiote\ApiWrapper\TokenAuthHandler'

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