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Mojolicious-Plugin-JSONAPI-1.2
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NAME

Mojolicious::Plugin::JSONAPI - Mojolicious Plugin for building JSON API compliant applications

VERSION

version 1.2

SYNOPSIS

    # Mojolicious

    # Using route helpers

    sub startup {
        my ($self) = @_;

        $self->plugin('JSONAPI', {
            namespace => 'api',
            data_dir => '/path/to/data/dir',
        });

        $self->resource_routes({
            resource => 'post',
            relationships => ['author', 'comments', 'email-templates'],
        });

        # Now the following routes are available:

        # GET '/api/posts' -> to('api-posts#fetch_posts')
        # POST '/api/posts' -> to('api-posts#post_posts')
        # GET '/api/posts/:post_id -> to('api-posts#get_post')
        # PATCH '/api/posts/:post_id -> to('api-posts#patch_post')
        # DELETE '/api/posts/:post_id -> to('api-posts#delete_post')

        # GET '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/author' -> to('api-posts#get_related_author')
        # POST '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/author' -> to('api-posts#post_related_author')
        # PATCH '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/author' -> to('api-posts#patch_related_author')
        # DELETE '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/author' -> to('api-posts#delete_related_author')

        # GET '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/comments' -> to('api-posts#get_related_comments')
        # POST '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/comments' -> to('api-posts#post_related_comments')
        # PATCH '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/comments' -> to('api-posts#patch_related_comments')
        # DELETE '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/comments' -> to('api-posts#delete_related_comments')

        # GET '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/email-templates' -> to('api-posts#get_related_email_templates')
        # POST '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/email-templates' -> to('api-posts#post_related_email_templates')
        # PATCH '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/email-templates' -> to('api-posts#patch_related_email_templates')
        # DELETE '/api/posts/:post_id/relationships/email-templates' -> to('api-posts#delete_related_email_templates')

        # If you're in development mode (e.g. MOJO_MODE eq 'development'), your $app->log will show the created routes. Useful!

        # You can use the following helpers too:

        $self->resource_document($dbic_row, $options);

        $self->compound_resource_document($dbic_row, $options);

        $self->resource_documents($dbic_resultset, $options);
    }

DESCRIPTION

This module intends to supply the user with helper methods that can be used to build a JSON API compliant Mojolicious server. It helps create routes for your resources that conform with the specification, along with supplying helper methods to use when responding to requests.

See http://jsonapi.org/ for the JSON API specification. At the time of writing, the version was 1.0.

OPTIONS

data_dir

Required; This should be a path to a directory which is not version controlled (if you use stuff like that). Used by JSONAPI::Document to store computed document types.

namespace

The prefix that's added to all routes, defaults to 'api'. You can also provided an empty string as the namespace, meaing no prefix will be added.

kebab_case_attrs

This is passed to the constructor of JSONAPI::Document which will kebab case the attribute keys of each record (i.e. '_' to '-').

attributes_via

Also passed to the constructor of JSONAPI::Document. This is the method that will be used to get the attributes for a resource document. Should return a hash (not a hashref).

HELPERS

resource_routes(HashRef $spec)

Creates a set of routes for the given resource. $spec is a hash reference that can consist of the following:

    {
        resource        => 'post', # name of resource, required
        controller      => 'api-posts', # name of controller, defaults to "api-{resource_plural}"
        relationships   => ['author', 'comments'], # default is []
    }
resource Str

The resources name. Should be a singular noun, which will be turned into it's pluralised version (e.g. "post" -> "posts") automatically where necessary.

controller Str

The controller name where the actions are to be stored. Defaults to "api-{resource}", where resource is in its pluralised form.

Routes will point to controller actions, the names of which follow the pattern {http_method}_{resource}, with dashes replaced with underscores (i.e. 'email-templates' -> 'email_templates').

router Mojolicious::Routes

The parent route to use for the resource. Optional.

Provide your own router if you plan to use under for your resource.

NOTE: Providing your own router assumes that the router is under the same namespace already, so the resource routes won't specify the namespace themselves.

Usage:

 my $under_api = $r->under('/api')->to('OAuth#is_authenticated');
 $self->resource_routes({
     router => $under_api,
     resource => 'post',
 });
relationships ArrayRef

The relationships belonging to the resource. Defaults to an empty array ref.

Specifying relationships will create additional routes that fall under the resource.

NOTE: Your relationships should be in the correct form (singular/plural) based on the relationship in your schema management system. For example, if you have a resource called 'post' and it has many 'comments', make sure comments is passed in as a plural noun.

render_error(Str $status, ArrayRef $errors, HashRef $data. HashRef $meta)

Renders a JSON response under the required top-level errors key. errors is an array reference of error objects as described in the specification. See Error Objects.

Can optionally provide a reference to the primary data for the route as well as meta information, which will be added to the response as-is. Use resource_document to generate the right structure for this argument.

requested_resources

Convenience helper for controllers. Takes the query param include, used to indicate what relationships to include in the response, and splits it by ',' to return an ArrayRef.

 # GET /api/posts?include=comments,author
 my $include = $c->requested_resources(); # ['comments', 'author']

resource_document

Available in controllers:

 $c->resource_document($dbix_row, $options);

See resource_document for usage.

compound_resource_document

Available in controllers:

 $c->compound_resource_document($dbix_row, $options);

See compound_resource_document for usage.

resource_documents

Available in controllers:

 $c->resource_documents($dbix_resultset, $options);

See resource_documents for usage.

LICENSE

This code is available under the Perl 5 License.