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Using the Schema.org Vocabulary
API Platform Admin has native support for the popular Schema.org vocabulary.
Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.
To leverage this capability, your API must use the JSON-LD format and the appropriate Schema.org types. The following examples will use API Platform Core to create such API, but keep in mind that this feature will work with any JSON-LD API using the Schema.org vocabulary, regardless of the used web framework or programming language.
Displaying Related Resource's Name Instead of its IRI
By default, IRIs of related objects are displayed in lists and forms. However, it is often more user-friendly to display a string representation of the resource (such as its name) instead of its ID.
To configure which property should be shown to represent your entity, map the property containing the name of the object with the https://schema.org/name
type:
// api/src/Entity/Person.php
...
#[ApiProperty(types: ["https://schema.org/name"])]
private $name;
...
Emails, URLs and Identifiers
Besides, it is also possible to use the documentation to customize some fields automatically while configuring the semantics of your data.
The following Schema.org types are currently supported by API Platform Admin:
https://schema.org/email
: the field will be rendered using the<EmailField>
React Admin componenthttps://schema.org/url
: the field will be rendered using the<UrlField>
React Admin componenthttps://schema.org/identifier
: the field will be formatted properly in inputs
Note: if you already use validation on your properties, the semantics are already configured correctly (see the correspondence table)!
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Core
- General Design Considerations
- GraphQL Support
- Enabling GraphQL
- Changing Location of the GraphQL Endpoint
- GraphiQL
- GraphQL Playground
- Modifying or Disabling the Default IDE
- Request with application/graphql Content-Type
- Operations
- Queries
- Mutations
- Subscriptions
- Workflow of the Resolvers
- Events
- Filters
- Pagination
- Security
- Serialization Groups
- Exception and Error
- Name Conversion
- Custom Types
- Modify the Extracted Types
- Changing the Serialization Context Dynamically
- Export the Schema in SDL
- Handling File Upload
- Change Default Descriptions
- State Providers
- Filters
- Doctrine ORM and MongoDB ODM Filters
- Elasticsearch Filters
- Serializer Filters
- Creating Custom Filters
- ApiFilter Attribute
- The Serialization Process
- Overall Process
- Available Serializers
- The Serialization Context, Groups and Relations
- Using Serialization Groups
- Using Serialization Groups per Operation
- Embedding Relations
- Property Normalization Context
- Calculated Field
- Changing the Serialization Context Dynamically
- Changing the Serialization Context on a Per-item Basis
- Name Conversion
- Decorating a Serializer and Adding Extra Data
- Entity Identifier Case
- Embedding the JSON-LD Context
- Collection Relation
- Validation
- Validating Submitted Data
- Using Validation Groups
- Using Validation Groups on Operations
- Dynamic Validation Groups
- Sequential Validation Groups
- Validating Delete Operations
- Error Levels and Payload Serialization
- Validation on Collection Relations
- Open Vocabulary Generated from Validation Metadata
- Specification Property Restrictions
- Collecting Denormalization Errors
- Overriding Default Order
- OpenAPI Specification Support (formerly Swagger)
- Using the OpenAPI Command
- Overriding the OpenAPI Specification
- Using the OpenAPI and Swagger Contexts
- Disabling an Operation From OpenAPI Documentation
- Changing the Name of a Definition
- Changing Operations in the OpenAPI Documentation
- Disabling Swagger UI or ReDoc
- Changing the Location of Swagger UI
- Using a custom Asset Package in Swagger UI
- Overriding the UI Template
- Compatibility Layer with Amazon API Gateway
- OAuth
- Info Object
- Pushing Related Resources Using HTTP/2
- Using External Vocabularies
- URL Generation Strategy
- NelmioApiDocBundle Integration
- Bootstraping the core library
Schema Generator
- Configuration
- Customizing PHP Namespaces
- Forcing a Field Type (Range)
- Forcing a Field Cardinality
- Changing the Default Cardinality
- Adding a Custom Attribute or Modifying a Generated Attribute
- Forcing (or Enabling) a Class Parent
- Forcing a Class to be Abstract
- Define API Platform Operations
- Forcing a Nullable Property
- Forcing a Unique Property
- Making a Property Read-Only
- Making a Property Write-Only
- Forcing an Embeddable Class to be Embedded
- Skipping Accessor Method Generation
- Using Fluent Mutator Methods
- Disabling the id Generator
- Generating UUIDs
- User-submitted UUIDs
- Generating Custom IDs
- Disabling Usage of Doctrine Collections
- Changing the Field Visibility
- Generating Assert\Type Attributes
- Forcing Doctrine Inheritance Mapping Attribute
- Interfaces and Doctrine Resolve Target Entity Listener
- Custom Schemas
- All Types, Resolve Types and Exclude
- Checking GoodRelation Compatibility
- Author PHPDoc
- PHP File Header
- Disabling Generators and Creating Custom Ones
- Full Configuration Reference