How to access the REST API?

[axtscz]

How do I access the REST API? Let us say that I have UF installed at HTTP://mywebsite.com/userfrosting.

[alexweissman]

Could you be more specific? What sort of data do you want to access?

[axtscz]

How do I return a list of users or a specific users? I'm trying to call it from an AJAX function.

[alexweissman]

As structured data? We discontinued the JSON API in 0.3.0, but it shouldn't be too hard to implement. Basically, you just need to add a few controller routes (e.g. api/user/u/:user_id), and then use the model (UserLoader::fetch($user_id)) along with json_encode. Oh, and of course, be sure to check for authorization before dispensing that data ;-)

[axtscz]

Thanks, Alex. Do you have any sort of REST API in the 0.3.0 release?

[alexweissman]

Well, the route structure as a whole is more or less RESTful, see http://www.userfrosting.com/components/#url-structure. It doesn't have a built-in API for structured data, but like I said, that is pretty easy to implement.

[alexweissman]

We've been getting a lot of requests for a true REST (so, stateless, sessionless?) API in chat. So, maybe this is something we should consider implementing in a future version.

[harding13]

Could be an answer? https://github.com/entomb/slim-json-api

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