Guide

How to create a Guide

This guide describes every available options to create a guide. Everything is optional and we recommend not to use Doctrine unless the guide is doctrine-specific. We provide a SQLite database, a way to run migrations and fixtures if needed. Usually a guide has a Front Matter header:

slug: how-to
name: How to create a Guide
// When this is true we'll be able to run the guide in api-platform.com/playground
executable: false
position: 0
tags: [doctrine]

Two namespaces are available to register API resources: App\Entity (for Doctrine) and App\ApiResource.

// src/App/Entity.php
namespace App\Entity;
use ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiResource;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

To showcase all the guide possibilities we’re using a Doctrine Entity Book:

#[ApiResource]
#[ORM\Entity]
class Book
{
    #[ORM\Id, ORM\Column, ORM\GeneratedValue]
    private ?int $id = null;
    #[ORM\Column]
    public ?string $title = null;
    public function getId(): ?int
    {
        return $this->id;
    }
}

We can declare as many namespaces or classes that we need to for this code to work.

// src/App/Service.php
namespace App\Service;
use Psr\Log\LoggerInterface;
class MyService
{
    public function __construct(private LoggerInterface $logger)
    {
    }
}

If you need to change something within Symfony’s Container you need to declare this namespace with a configure method.

// src/App/DependencyInjection.php
namespace App\DependencyInjection;
use App\Service\MyService;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\Configurator\ContainerConfigurator;
use function Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\Configurator\service;
function configure(ContainerConfigurator $configurator): void
{
    $services = $configurator->services();
    $services->set(MyService::class)
        ->args([service('logger')]);
}

Doctrine migrations will run from this namespace.

// src/DoctrineMigrations.php
namespace DoctrineMigrations;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Schema\Schema;
use Doctrine\Migrations\AbstractMigration;
final class Migration extends AbstractMigration
{
    public function up(Schema $schema): void
    {
        $this->addSql('CREATE TABLE book (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, title VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL)');
    }
}

And we can load fixtures using Foundry

// src/App/Fixtures.php
namespace App\Fixtures;
use App\Entity\Book;
use Doctrine\Bundle\FixturesBundle\Fixture;
use Doctrine\Persistence\ObjectManager;
use function Zenstruck\Foundry\anonymous;
final class BookFixtures extends Fixture
{
    public function load(ObjectManager $manager): void
    {
        $bookFactory = anonymous(Book::class);
        $bookFactory->many(10)->create([
            'title' => 'title',
        ]);
    }
}

The request method is the one executed by the API Platform online Playground on startup.

// src/App/Playground.php
namespace App\Playground;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
function request(): Request
{
    return Request::create('/books.jsonld', 'GET');
}

The Guide huge advantage is that it is also tested with phpunit.

// src/App/Tests.php
namespace App\Tests;
use ApiPlatform\Playground\Test\TestGuideTrait;
use ApiPlatform\Symfony\Bundle\Test\ApiTestCase;
use App\Entity\Book;
final class BookTest extends ApiTestCase
{
    use TestGuideTrait;
    public function testAsAnonymousICanAccessTheDocumentation(): void
    {
        $response = static::createClient()->request('GET', '/books.jsonld');
        $this->assertResponseIsSuccessful();
        $this->assertMatchesResourceCollectionJsonSchema(Book::class, '_api_/books{._format}_get_collection', 'jsonld');
        $this->assertNotSame(0, $response->toArray(false)['hydra:totalItems'], 'The collection is empty.');
        $this->assertJsonContains([
            'hydra:totalItems' => 10,
        ]);
    }
}

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