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The Laravel API Version Manager Package streamlines the management of API endpoint versions in Laravel applications. This package empowers you to effortlessly handle API versioning, eliminating the necessity to create individual controllers for each version. Its design presents a flexible and efficient solution, enabling you to define fallback versions and effortlessly generate version-specific Requests and Resources.

Features

• Fallback Versions: Define fallback versions for your API routes, ensuring smooth transitions and maintaining backward compatibility.
• Single Controller: Eliminate the need to create separate controllers for each API version. Our package dynamically injects version-specific Request and Resource classes into your existing controller.
• Effortless Versioning: Easily manage API versions through route configuration. The package automatically handles the resolution of version-specific components, streamlining your development process.

Installation

You can install the package via Composer:

composer require api-tools/api-version-manager

Configuration

Publish Config File

It is mandatory to publish the config file before using the package. You can publish the config file using the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=api-version-manager

Mandatory Configurations:

• Define available versions array in config
• Define default version version in config

Other possible configurations are:

• app_http_namespace (default: App\Http) - Generally we use App\Http namespace to store all our requests & resources classes, but if you are using different namespace then you can define it here.
• api_prefix (default: api) - API prefix for all versioned routes.
• use_fallback_entity (default: true) - If you want to use fallback entity for all request & resource class then set this to true, otherwise set it to false. For example, you define SampleRequest in V1, and now you want to use same request in V2 then you can set this option to true and it will automatically use SampleRequest from V1.

Available Commands

Create a new versioned request

php artisan make:versioned-request {name}

Possible options:

• --force: Overwrite the request if it already exists.

Create a new versioned resource

php artisan make:versioned-resource {name}

Possible options:

• --collection: Create a resource collection instead of a single resource.
• --force: Overwrite the resource if it already exists.

Usage

Example of api.php file:

Route::prefix('v1')->group(function () {
    Route::get('endpoint1', [SomeController::class, 'endpoint1']); // Available on v1 & v2 (Via default fallback)
    Route::get('endpoint2', [SomeController::class, 'endpoint2']); // Available on v1 & v2 (Via default fallback)
});
Route::prefix('v2')->group(function () {
    Route::get('new-endpoint', [SomeController::class, 'endpoint3']); // Available only on v2 
});

Example of SomeController.php file:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\API;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Http\Resources\Versioned\EndpointResource; // Mandatory to use versioned resource only. Don't use `App\Http\Resources\V1\EndpointResource` or `App\Http\Resources\V2\EndpointResource`
use App\Http\Requests\Versioned\NewEndpointRequest; // Mandatory to use versioned request only. Don't use `App\Http\Requests\V1\NewEndpointRequest` or `App\Http\Requests\V2\NewEndpointRequest`
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class SomeController extends Controller
{
    public function endpoint1(Request $request)
    {
        return DashboardResource::item(['some' => 'data']); // Replacement of native `new DashboardResource(['some' => 'data'])` resource
    }
    
    public function endpoint1(Request $request)
    {
        return DashboardResource::collection(['some' => 'data']);
    }
    
    public function endpoint3(NewEndpointRequest $request)
    {
        return DashboardResource::item(['some' => 'data']);
    }
}

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.