RESTful APIs in the Real World Course 2

Making RESTful APIs is hard, really hard. There are a lot of concepts to know - resources, representations, HTTP methods, status codes, etc.

Course 1 got us really comfortable with all the terminology. So in episode 2, we're attacking the hard stuff:

• Using a serializer
• Token Authentication System (Silex's security system)
• Hypermedia versus media
• The HAL hypermedia type
• The HATEOAS PHP library
• The HAL Browser
• Embedding resources (versus adding links)
• Tricks with Behat for testing API's
• Pagination and filtering
• A lot of other pieces in between!

This stuff is not easy. But if you make it through, you'll be armed to attack whatever API need you have.

• The Serializer: Swiss-Army Knife of APIs
• Serializer Configuration (SerializationContext)
• Serializer Annotations
• Requiring Authentication
• Authorization via a Token
• Securing More Endpoints
• Authentication Error Format
• Centralizing Error Response Creation
• Creating Token Resources in the API
• Reuse and Consistency
• Validate that Token Resource
• New Battle Resource (the Scenario)
• Start (Create) an Epic Battle (Resource)
• GET Your (One) Battle On
• Battles and Programmer - Link them!
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