Más formatos: HAL Y CSV

Hi ,

how do I add format application/x-www-form-urlencode ?
why the default formats aren't supported?

Hey,

That's output format, why do you need to output in application/x-www-form-urlencode format? It's not very useful as I know.

Cheers!

Hi,

When I add this :

api_platform:
formats:
jsonld:
mime_types:
- application/ld+json
json:
mime_types:
- application/json
html:
mime_types:
- text/html

in the yaml file, I have the following error that is displayed : The routing file "C:\wamp64\www\bookshop-api\config/routes/api_platform.yaml" contains unsupported keys for "api_platform": "formats". Expected one of: "resource", "type", "prefix", "path", "host", "schemes", "methods", "defaults", "requirements", "options", "condition", "controller", "name_prefix", "trailing_slash_on_root", "locale", "format", "utf8", "exclude", "stateless" in C:\wamp64\www\bookshop-api\config/routes/api_platform.yaml (which is being imported from "C:\wamp64\www\bookshop-api\src\Kernel.php").

I reply very late, but maybe that can be useful for other members.

This error is because you modify the wrong files. the right file is in the folder config/packages/api_platform.yaml (not config/routes/...)

Hey David-G,

Thank you for this tip! I bet it might be useful to someone.

Cheers!

Hey Benoit L.

This is odd, I just checked our course code, and also ApiPlatform source and this key should be named formats:. Have you updated course code? or not? Can you try to reinstall vendors and manually clear the caches.

Cheers

I had to create the project using this command : composer create-project symfony/skeleton bookshop-api because the server was not running without that.

Hey Benoit L.

and which version on ApiPlatform do you have installed? Do you still have this error?

Cheers!

Hey guys,
1) what about exporting word docx formats. What we should exactlly do ? Do we need to create a normolizer like this https://api-platform.com/do... and what we should put there?
2) Does there a way to acess to _format inside my controller, In fact apiplatform they force remove the _format from the open api document.
https://github.com/api-plat...

Cheers

Hey ahmedbhs!

1) Hmm, I'm not sure! I guess docx is just a special XML format that you can generate? In the case, you would create a custom encoder for it I believe - I don't think you would need a normalizer (but I could be wrong). The normalizer takes the Object and converts it to an array structure.Then, the encoder takes that array structure and converts it into the final format - like xml, json, etc. Hence, I think (?) you might only need a custom encoder, but it's possible you might also need a custom normalizer. In general, this is more of a "Symfony serializer" question than an API Platform question: if you're able to teach the serializer how to export to docx, then API Platform should do it. Here are some details about that: https://symfony.com/doc/current/serializer.html#adding-normalizers-and-encoders

2) You should be able to access it either via $request->getRequestFormat() or via $request->attributes->get('_format').

Let me know how it goes :)

Cheers!

Hi,
I need to display dots on a map (using mapbox), with some other informations (address, name, etc.). It works best if I can provide to my map GeoJson data...What is the best way to do that?

Of course, I can make my user's device process the regular collection it gets from the "GET" method, but API Platform should be able to do that more efficiently, right? Through a controller with a specific route, generating my GeoJson "manually"? Through Content Negotiation? Or any other way? What would you recommend? (I don't *always* need to get that GeoJson format for my list, only for that map)

Hey @Xav!

Hmm, I’m not sure. Do you already have an api endpoint of “locations” (or something)? And now you want to be able to sometimes turn that same collection, but formatted in GeoJson? If so, a custom format might indeed make sense.

I’ve never done that myself (we use formats in this video that are already supported in core). They do have Docs on this - https://api-platform.com/do... - but I’ve never tried that before. You basically want a custom normalizer for this situation that builds your data... and then you want to use the standard json encoder.

Let me know if this solution seems to fit you’re use case or not :).

Cheers!

The CSV format is a feature desired in most enterprise applications. It allows users to export static and other data like trial balances to spread sheets for further processing., Is there a export to PDF available or being planning or is there a way to incorporate an existing symfony or PHP library ? This is something that I would like to see in future versions atleast it helps us generate reports using the server resources and a cron job without having any user intervention sample use cases : credit card statements, invoices, regulatory reports etc. Wouldn't want to generate at the browser end.

Hey Sridhar,

I'm not 100% sure if it is going to be implemented in future versions, most probably not, but I can't quickly find any info about it. So feel free to open an issue in the ApiPlatform project repository to be more sure or get feedback from maintainers directly why it won't be implemented.

For now, you probably need only custom solution for this, I can recommend you to take a look at KnpSnappyBundle that allow you to generate PDF files on server side thanks to Wkhtmltopdf that you also need to install on your server.

I hope this helps!

Cheers!