Restler: Internal actions

Question

Is there a way to perform REST actions in the middle of executing an action? For example, if I perform GET /index.php/book/1 I might receive the following:

[{
    "id" : 1,
    "title" : "This is a book.",
    "owner_id" : 4
}]

But what I'd like to do is before returning the above object, perform a GET /index.php/user/4 so the end result is:

[{
    "id" : 1,
    "title" : "This is a book.",
    "owner" : {
        "id" : 4,
        "name" : "John Smith",
        "age" : 40
    }
}]

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '12 at 13:18

There is even simple way of doing this with Restler by internally calling another api method directly instead of wasting one call to the server

class User{
    public function get($id, $includeOwner = true){
        $result = getUserFromDB($id)
        if($includeOwner){
            $result['owner'] = $this->get(getOwnerIdFromDB($id),false);
        }
    }
    return $result;
}

HTH

Restler: Internal actions

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