generating API and laravel passport

Question

I'm new to Laravel and kindly answer my question, please.

I'm developing a system with Laravel 5.8 in which two user levels are included.

1. user
2. admin

Authenticated users can view and store the posts into database. (action: index, show and store)

And authenticated admins can view the posts that the users have posted and approve to publish. (action: index, show, store and destroy)

My database table:books is like below:

id

name

numbers_of_pages

type

author

and users table:

id

name

email

password

and admins table:

id

name

email

password

First Question:

In my api.php

Route::apiResource('books', 'BookController');

Follow is my desired routes structrues.

# index()
// http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/books/drama -> get all books where type is drama
// http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/books/novel -> get all books where type is novel
// http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/books/magazine -> get all books where type is magazine

How can I achieve that with my BookController created by the command:

php artisan make:controller BookController --api

and how to prefix v1 in the route? I don't want to prefix that version number in RouteServiceProvider.php.

Another Question:
How to oauth that multiple users? Both admins and users are consumers of the api.

Answer 1

For i am developing an api myself at this moment, i know some of your problems and have already succeded to complete this task, so i try to answer your questions.

To the 'v1' prefix in URL: I have done this in my routes/api.php file with

Route::prefix('/v1')->group(function () { 
// my routes for version 1
}

One word for your user/admin stuff: I did not put this into 2 seperate tables. The idea is, that you have a bunch of users and only some of them are admins. So why don't flag them with an admin flag and give the users model (in your User.php) a method with is_admin to just return, if this flag is set to true or false. So you can see, is a logged in user an admin or not.

With this, you can check this at any time in your app with auth()->user()->is_admin to see, if this is an admin or not.

Hope, i could help you a little bit 😉

Now, to your Books problem. I would simply put in another route into my routes/api.php like

Route::get('books/{category}', 'BookController@category')->name('books.category');

and create a new function called public function category(String $category) into my BookController. Within this, you can check if $category is a valid Category Name and handle the return.