Yii中的RESTful服务器设计

Question

Hi i have been trawling the net in search of as much info i could get my mits on about creating a restful server in the Yii framework.

All the examples i have found so far have dealt with writing a restful application that deals with one model (IE Topic Or Posts)

The crux of my question is this, How should i deal with writing a restful server that deals with alot of Model types, ie client, brand, project, task?

Each Model object will need CRUD operations to be implemented so for example To create a new brand the system requires a Client Id as will the other CRUD operations.

Should each Model Object have its own RESTFUl server or should there be come kind of controller that routes the RESTFUL requests to the corresponding Rest controller for the model object? Should there be one Server that dynamically decides what model to work with like a switch (not keen on this idea personally)

Any kind of advice of how to achieve this kind of rest architecture would be really great

I think its also worth noting that the server i am building will be working with sproutcore on the front end and will only be returning JSON so any kind of format detection will not be required.

Answer 1

Run through this tutorial. Just duplicate the controller actions. Edit the second set of actions to interact with a new model. For example, the tutorial calls for the following actions to be created in the controller:

public function actionList()
{
}
public function actionView()
{
}
public function actionCreate()
{
}
public function actionUpdate()
{
}
public function actionDelete()
{
}

You would create alternate actions for your second model. Something like:

public function actionListB()
{
}
public function actionViewB()
{
}
public function actionCreateB()
{
}
public function actionUpdateB()
{
}
public function actionDeleteB()
{
}

If you need more information or clarification please leave a comment. Good luck.