JSON-LD allows to define classes and properties of your API with open vocabularies such as Schema.org and Good Relations.
API Platform Core provides annotations usable on PHP classes and properties for specifying a related external IRI.
<?php
// api/src/Entity/Book.php
namespace App\Entity;
use ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiProperty;
use ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiResource;
#[ApiResource(iri: "https://schema.org/Book")]
class Book
{
// ...
#[ApiProperty(iri: "https://schema.org/name")]
public $name;
// ...
}
The generated JSON for products and the related context document will now use external IRIs according to the specified annotations:
GET /books/22
{
"@context": "/contexts/Book",
"@id": "/books/22",
"@type": "https://schema.org/Book",
"name": "My awesome book"
}
GET /contexts/Book
{
"@context": {
"@vocab": "http://example.com/apidoc#",
"hydra": "http://www.w3.org/ns/hydra/core#",
"name": "https://schema.org/name"
}
}
An extended list of existing open vocabularies is available on the Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) database.
By default, when using validations API Platform Core will try to define known Schema.org types as IRIs for your properties if you did not provide any in your @ApiProperty
annotations.
Built-in mapping is:
Constraints | Schema.org type |
---|---|
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Url | https://schema.org/url |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Email | https://schema.org/email |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Uuid | https://schema.org/identifier |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\CardScheme | https://schema.org/identifier |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Bic | https://schema.org/identifier |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Iban | https://schema.org/identifier |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Date | https://schema.org/Date |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\DateTime | https://schema.org/DateTime |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Time | https://schema.org/Time |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Image | https://schema.org/image |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\File | https://schema.org/MediaObject |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Currency | https://schema.org/priceCurrency |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Isbn | https://schema.org/isbn |
Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Issn | https://schema.org/issn |
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