Apigility - POST to Entity - How do I get the ID value?

Question

I am building an API with Apigility. I want to allow POST to a Collection (for creating a new unnamed entity) and also to an Entity (for creating a new named entity).

Apigility's Resource class, 'create' method is invoked on POST to either the Collection or an Entity, and receives only a 'data' parameter which is the POSTed payload. There is no 'id' parameter because the method is usually invoked only for Collections.

If invoked on an Entity - i.e. if an 'id' value was provided in the URI - how can I know the ID value that was provided?

Thanks

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '16 at 19:41

YES! I figured it out:

public function create($data)
{
    return array('id' => 
        $this->getEvent()->getRouteMatch()->getParam('dataset_id'));
}

POST http://localhost/dataset/xyz123

(response) =>

{
    "id": "xyz123",
    ...
}

POST http://localhost/dataset

(response) =>

{
    "id": null,
    ...
}

Apigility - POST to Entity - How do I get the ID value?

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