Question

I started looking at the Tonic Restful Services framework and I really think it’s a very nice framework. The problem is that I cannot find much resources apart from the examples in order to see possible ways of using it.

I would like for example to know if I could use the POST verb more than one time in a single resource and if there is some sort of annotation that could allow me to do that. For example JAX-RS have the @Action annotation.

I really do not have a lot of experience with REST or PHP so I really need your help.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

No, you cannot. But you can route your posts using another variable in your posts requests.
Just make sure to clean methods name for security reasons…

something like this.

   /**
     * Handle a POST request for this resource
     * @param Request request
     * @return Response
     */
    function post($request) {

        if (isset($_POST['method'])) {
           return $this->$method($request, $name);
        }

    } 

    function post_one($request) {
       // your code here
    }

    function post_two($request) {
       // your code here
    }

    //...and so on...

If you want to check if method exists, you could use something like

if (method_exists('controller_name', 'method_name'));

But that’s another topic. http://php.net/manual/en/function.method-exists.php