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Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7
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Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

by Waheed ud din
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
6h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Validation and negative cases?

First, we are only dealing with positive cases: that means we are not considering what happens if the request is not according to our assumption. What if the user is sending data with the wrong method? What if a record doesn't exist with the ID that the user is passing on?

In short, we are not yet handling all that, but there are things that Lumen is handling for us already.

If you try to hit endpoint URLs, http://localhost:8000/api/posts/1 with the POST method, then, it is an invalid method. On those URLs, we can only send a request with GET, PUT or PATCH. With GET, it will trigger the PostController show() method while PUT or PATCH will trigger the update() method. But the POST method shouldn't be allowed. ...

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ISBN: 9781787127746