I am fan of creating APIs. I have worked on so many projects of creating APIs. Laravel provides really good and handy commands to setup your all required files like Controller, Model, Migration etc.

But the problem that I was facing was, while starting any new project, I have to setup too many things step by step for creating basic CRUD API. Like create migration, model, controller, repository etc. So it was little bit time consuming for me to create those all things to setup basic CRUD api for one model and repeat the same steps again for the another model.

So I have created one command where you just need to add fields as we are adding when creating migration and all rest things are created automatically and placed in our configured folders with given namespaces as well.

This command Generator generates following things:

• Migration File
• Model
• Repository (optional)
• Controller
• View
  • index.blade.php
  • show.blade.php
  • create.blade.php
  • edit.blade.php
  • fields.blade.php
• updates routes.php

And your simple CURD API is ready in less than 1 minute.

Here is the full documentation.

1. Add this package to your composer.json:

    "require": {
        "mitulgolakiya/laravel-api-generator": "dev-master"
    }
   

2. Run composer update

    composer update
   

3. Add the ServiceProviders to the providers array in config/app.php.
   As we are using these two packages illuminate/html & laracasts/flash as a dependency.
   so we need to add those ServiceProviders as well.

    'Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',
    'Laracasts\Flash\FlashServiceProvider',
    'Mitul\Generator\GeneratorServiceProvider'
   

Also for convenience, add these facades in alias array in config/app.php.

	'Form'  => 'Illuminate\Html\FormFacade',
	'HTML'  => 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlFacade',
	'Flash' => 'Laracasts\Flash\Flash'

4. Publish generator.php

    php artisan vendor:publish --provider='Mitul\Generator\GeneratorServiceProvider'
   

5. Fire the artisan command to generate API for Model, or to generate scaffold with views for web applications

    php artisan mitul.generator:api ModelName
    php artisan mitul.generator:scaffold ModelName
   

   e.g.

    php artisan mitul.generator:api Project
    php artisan mitul.generator:api Post
   
    php artisan mitul.generator:scaffold Project
    php artisan mitul.generator:scaffold Post
   

6. Enter the fields with options
   

7. And You are ready to go. :)

Config file (config/generator.php) contains path for all generated files

path_migration - Path where Migration file to ge generated
path_model - Path where Model file to ge generated
path_repository - Path where Repository file to ge generated
path_controller - Path where Controller file to ge generated
path_views - Path where views will be created
path_request - Path where request file will be created
path_routes - Path of routes.php (if you are using any custom routes file)

namespace_model - Namespace of Model
namespace_repository - Namespace of Repository
namespace_controller - Namespace of Controller
namespace_request - Namespace for Request

Here is the input for the fields by which you can specify Input.

    fieldName:fieldType,options:fieldOptions

e.g.,

    email:string:unique
    email:string:unique,default('[email protected]')
    title:string,100
    price:flat,8,4

Parameters will be in the same sequence as Blueprint class function for all types. Option will be printed as it is given in input except unique & primary.

Remember: This response structure is based on the most of my API response structure, you can change it to your API response after file generation in controller.

Success

    {
        "flag":true,
        "message":"success message",
        "data":{}
    }

data can be anything as per response.

Failure

    {
        "flag":false,
        "message":"failure message",
        "code": 0
        "data":{}
    }

data will be optional. And code will be error code.

While generating scaffold, all views are created with basic CRUD functionality. (currently delete is not working)

Views will be created in resources/views/modelName folder,

    index.blade.php - Main Index file for listing records
    create.blade.php - To insert a new record
    edit.blade.php - To edit a record
    fields.blade.php - Common file of all model fields, which will be used create and edit record
    show.blade.php - To display a record

![Image of Command Execution] (http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B5kWGBdVjC7RbTRvTEswQ0tfOEU)

![Image of Generated Files] (http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B5kWGBdVjC7RZ1VMcXlsM1Z2MDg)

![Image of Migration File] (http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B5kWGBdVjC7RMWtnN1RxUzdmTUE)

![Image of Model File] (http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B5kWGBdVjC7RRUJfdHE4MVRaeXM)

![Image of Repository File] (http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B5kWGBdVjC7ROUdNVTVORm5nQ1E)

![Image of Controller File] (http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B5kWGBdVjC7RREVacVlOZDhxNDQ)

![Image of View Files] (http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B5kWGBdVjC7RQW5FOXExOFhEbms)

This API Generator is created by Mitul Golakiya.

Bugs & Forks are welcomed :)