Creating endpoints starts with adding the endpoint to the Router. You can do this by editing the Server/routes/api.php file. You can learn more about routing by reading the Laravel routing documentation.
$router->get("example", "ExampleController@getExampleData");
Now we need to create our controller in the Server/app/Http/Controllers/ directory.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;
use Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpException as Exception;
class ExampleController extends Controller
{
// ...
}
Then within our new controller class we will need to add our endpoint’s function.
public function getExampleData(Request $request): JsonResponse
{
$data = ["foo", "bar", "baz"];
return $this->buildSuccessResponse($data);
}
If we needed to identify our user we can access the User model that’s injected into the request.
$user = $request->user;
That’s it! At this point we can continue to add new endpoints to our controller. If we need to perform business logic (outside of parameter validation) we will need to create a service.