Re: How do you go about making a ReST service filterable (search via ReST)

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Greg <gskerman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Still a bit stuck here with ReST. I have the index displaying as XML,
> and JSON - so its a good start...
>
> however the list could end up being quite large, so I want to
> condition it by fields.
>
> Conceptually something like:
>
> logs.xml?source=&class=&method=& etc, allowing the caller to pass
> basic query parameters to the index action.
>
> I don't want to use $_GET though, I'd prefer to use something like
> named parameters, but unsure how to make this play nice.

For GET requests, have a look at $this->request->query.

>
> Do i need to set up custom ReST routing instead of mapResources() to
> achieve this?

You can use mapResources to make _fancy_ URLs, but if you want to pass
parameters to your index view like in the example above, you can just
refer to the default configuration.

Cheers,
Matteo

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