Implementation of Custom API

Structure

I used Laravel 5.4 with PHP 5.6

I have isolated my source from Laravel core in src folder. For that I have add a provider in config/app.php

//isolate source folder for my project
CustomApi\Providers\SrcServiceProvider::class,
CustomApi\Providers\RouteServiceProvider::class,

The purpose of this is that I want to isolate my source to improve the maintainability (we can move it to other Laravel project easily)

|--src
  |-- Controllers
  |-- Middlewares
  |-- Providers
  |-- routes
  |-- Services
tests
  |-- Feature
  |-- Unit

Structure summary

• Providers: I have two; RouteProviders to create new routes and SrcProvider to inject services and middlewares

• routes: file with route for custom api

• Controllers: I have created a controller that is called from api.php and call ShowAdapter service

• Service: I have created ShowAdapterService where you can find all the logic of custom api. This Service have:

  • query

    Set query parameter and return the its class instance.

  • search

    Main method that it will use the logic of the others methods or used a Cache. it will return its class instance as well.

  • shows

    It will return a search collection.

  • response

    It will build a response json from a show collection

  • searchShows

    This method should return a collection with data from external API.

  • filterShows

    This method will return collection with parsed shows that contains the query value.

  • parsedShows

    It will return a collection with the new format for each show

• Middleware: I have created a middlware to avoid call with q parameter. In summary check parameters before to apply logic. If parameters are not correct will return 400 HTTP error.

• test: I have used feature and app UT and I put config to generate coverage.

Run App

You will need php 5.6 to run it (Laravel 5.4)

• 1.- upload this source with git clone https://github.com/miguelmartinpas/custom-api.git
• 2.- run composer update
• 3.- php artisan serve

You can access to custo-api with

localhost:8000/custom-api/search

You need q param to get results. Example of valid url:

localhost:8000/custom-api/search?q=Superman

To run UT yu should use

./vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit

The current output is:

> ./vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit                                                               
PHPUnit 5.7.21 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

............                                                      12 / 12 (100%)

Time: 5.63 seconds, Memory: 20.75MB

OK (12 tests, 18 assertions)

Generating code coverage report in HTML format ... done