ExpectedAPI.md

Clockvine – Expected API

Clockvine will work for you as long as your API is compatible with the following details. This spec is meant to be fairly generic, works with both craftcms/element-api and Laravel, and is less strict than the JSONAPI spec.

1. First, all responses are expected to be JSON.
2. Second, all responses are expected to be a single object, with
3. the primary content stored the data attribute of that object, and
4. an optional set of meta information in the meta attribute of that object.

The requirements are inspired by JSONAPI, and primarily meant to allow for flexibility in the future.

Expected Endpoints

A clockvine ApiModule requires two arguments, baseUrl and idProperty. Based on these, this is what it expects for the following REST actions.

Action	Method	URL Format	Example URL
index	GET	baseUrl	/api/users
show	GET	baseUrl/id	/api/users/1
store	POST	baseUrl	/api/users
update	PUT	baseUrl/id	/api/users/1
destroy	DELETE	baseUrl/id	/api/users/1

Expected Endpoints for ElementAPI

For Element API, the default behavior is slightly different. It's assumed that baseUrl ends with .json and that needs to be stripped off. For the table below, baseNoSuffix refers to baseUrl with the suffix stripped.

Action	Method	URL Format	Example URL
index	GET	baseUrl	/api/users
show	GET	baseNoSuffix/id.json	/api/users/1
store	POST	baseUrl	/api/users
update	PUT	baseNoSuffix/id.json	/api/users/1
destroy	DELETE	baseNoSuffix/id.json	/api/users/1

Custom Endpoints

Clockvine also supports customizing the URL formats further, also the actions and methods can't be. The baseUrl argument to the ApiModule constructor can be a function, that is passed all parameters, as well as the action as the configurable actionParameter (default "action".)

Even More Custom Endpoints

Beyond customizing the URL formats, You can also provide your own parsing function to Clockvine to handle other response formats. See the parseResponse configuration option when defining your ApiModule.

Endpoint Actions

INDEX

An index action is a GET request to baseUrl. The primary content of the response must be an array of object, with each object representing a single model for this endpoint.

It's important that each model object here has it's primary key as an attribute, and the name of the primary key field matches idProperty. By default, Clockvine will use "id" for idProperty, and therefore look for a "id" field on each object.

Example response:

{
  "data": [{
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Imarc",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "created_at": "2017-10-27 22:09:36",
    "updated_at": "2017-10-27 22:09:36",
    "phone": null,
    "deleted_at": null,
    "role": "Administrator"
  }, {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Kevin Hamer",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "created_at": "2017-10-27 22:09:37",
    "updated_at": "2017-10-27 22:09:37",
    "phone": "978 426 8848",
    "deleted_at": null,
    "role": "User"
  }, {
    "id": 3,
    "name": "First Lastername",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "created_at": "2017-10-27 22:09:37",
    "updated_at": "2017-10-27 22:09:37",
    "phone": null,
    "deleted_at": null,
    "role": "User"
  }],
  "meta": {
    "pagination": {
      "total_pages": 5
    }
  }
}

SHOW

A show action is a GET request to baseUrl/primary key, where primary key is the primary key of the model you'd like to fetch. The primary content of the response should be a single object representing the model you're fetching.

Just as with index actions, it's important that the primary key is defined within the model.

Example response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Imarc",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "created_at": "2017-10-27 22:09:36",
  "updated_at": "2017-10-27 22:09:36",
  "phone": null,
  "deleted_at": null,
  "role": "Administrator"
}

STORE

A store action is a POST request to baseUrl with a payload of just a plain javascript object to store as a new element. The primary content of the response should be the successfully stored element, along with any other properties populated that are normally passed in the API.

Example POST:

{
  "name": "Amesbury",
  "email": "[email protected]"
}

Example response:

{
  "id": 2,
  "name": "Amesbury",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "created_at": "2020-02-24 22:09:36",
  "updated_at": "2020-02-24 22:09:36",
  "phone": null,
  "deleted_at": null,
  "role": "User"
}

UPDATE

An update action is a PUT request to baseUrl/primary key, where primary key is the primary key of the model you'd like to update. The payload should be an updated element object, although the object does not need to be complete.

DESTROY

Finally, a destroy action is a DELETE request to baseUrl/primary key, where primay key is the primary key of the model you'd like to delete.