What is the difference between zfr-rest and apigilty. Which one should be used in which circumstances? AS far as I can see zfr-rest is simple and can be used to deliver any payload where as apigilty seems like bound to return only HAL. Which one should be best to use/learn. apigility probably will be included in zf3. Any information of experience, ideas with these two will be helpful.
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ZF-Rest is a ZF2 module that according to the docs:
provides structure and code for quickly implementing RESTful APIs that use JSON as a transport.
Apigility is a ZF2 application or as they write in the docs a Meta-Module:
Meta- Zend Framework 2 module combining features from:
- zf-api-problem
- zf-content-negotiation
- zf-hal
- zf-rest
- zf-rpc
- zf-versioning
Apigility requires ZF-Rest as you can see here on line 44 inside the composer.json file for the application, so it is an application dependency.
Thus, you cannot use Apigility without ZF-Rest, but you can use ZF-Rest without Apigility.
You also mention HAL inside your question. There is a separate module called ZF-Hal providing the HAL-Json functionality in Apigility. This module seamlessly connects to ZF-Rest.
I hope this will make it more understandable it all relates.
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Is there any way to use any other payload other than HAL in apigility? – varuog May 31 '16 at 18:36
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@varuog Yes, you can connect your own RenderStrategy and render whatever you want :) – Wilt May 31 '16 at 18:38