Apigility

An easy way to do all that crazy stuff Brian just talked about.

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1. Apigility An easy way to do all that crazy stuff Brian just talked about. austin.morris@gmail.com @austinsmorris
2. WTF?
3. You have data.
4. You want to share your data.
5. Brian is a pretty smart dude, and he says RMM Level 3 is cool, so you want that too.
6. You have chosen... wisely!
7. But how do you do it?
8. www.apigility.org
9. • An opinionated API builder. • A simple way to create and maintain useful, easy to consume, and well- structured APIs. • A ZF2 application created by the Zend Framework team (led by @mwop). Apigility is:
10. An easy-to-use UI...
12. …that spits out pure awesome:
14. Let’s get started...
15. $ git clone git@github.com:zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton.git $ cd zf-apigility-skeleton/ $ composer install
16. Create a new virtual host...
19. • The basic composer dependencies are only meant to serve your API. • If you want to use the Apigility admin interface, you have to install the development dependencies.
21. $ composer update Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
23. $ php public/index.php development enable Copying config/development.config.php.dist to config/development.config.php You are now in development mode.
25. Demo time!
26. • RMM1: Resources (manipulate entities and collections) • RMM2: HTTP Verbs (everything useful including PATCH) • RMM3: Hypermedia (hal+json) Apigility offers:
27. • Authorization (including OAuth2) • API Versioning • Validation and Filtering • Content Negotiation • Allowed methods • Intelligent status codes Apigility offers:
28. What’s the catch?
29. • Relatively new - announced at ZendCon (Oct. 2013) • Not documented - you get 18 minutes of @mwop tutorial, then good luck! • Not exactly stable - @mwop’s demo is better than mine because I kept throwing exceptions! Apigility is:
30. • API documentation - currently favoring API Blueprint • UI cleanup and bug fixes. • Apigility documentation and tutorials - Fool me once… • Targeting stable release late Feb. 2014. Apigility is in progress:
31. Questions?