kodmanyagha / anzera-challenge

Challenge for Anzera

Anzera Challenge with Laravel

Challenge details

What did I do?

• Created models: User, Category, Product. Relation definitions:
  • User -> Product: One to Many
  • Product -> User: Many to One
  • Category -> Product: One to Many
  • Product -> Category: Many to One
• Create foreign keys between products-users and products-categories tables in migration.
• Defined CRUD REST route with extending Illuminate\Routing\Router class. The class is here: App\Extended\Router. This is added to here: bootstrap/app.php file. Detailed info is here.
• Example middleware: App\Http\Middleware\PrintJsonResponse
• Sessions disabled from App\Http\Kernel.

REST CRUD router

Example usage:
Route::restCrud('products', \App\Http\Controllers\Products::class);

This is creating these routes:

HTTP      URL                    CLASS METHOD     ROUTE NAME
------------------------------------------------------------------
GET       /products              index            products.index
POST      /products/create       create           products.create
GET       /products/{id}         read             products.read
PUT       /products/{id}         update           products.update
DELETE    /products/{id}         delete           products.delete

You can look to App\Extended\Router::restCrud() method for implementation.

Important thing about PUT (update) method: You must make HTTP POST request and you must add _method=PUT parameter to form parameters. Otherwise Laravel can't recognize the PUT method and routes blowing up.

What about authentication?

Challenge rules didn't required any authentication. But I just added and configured Passport library to project. We can use it if we need. In first we must write an Authentication controller for login-logout operations.

Bugs and TODOs

All of these must be solve:

• Showing 404 if a request not validated. I must investigate this.
  • I investigated. findOrFail() method is causing this. If we don't find requested id from table then Laravel is opening 404 page. In API response I must catch this and print as JSON.