Questions tagged [yii-rest]

Yii provides a whole set of tools to simplify the task of implementing RESTful Web Service APIs. In particular, Yii supports the following features about RESTful APIs:

Quick prototyping with support for common APIs for Active Record;

Response format negotiation (supporting JSON and XML by default);

Customizable object serialization with support for selectable output fields;

Proper formatting of collection data and validation errors;

Support for HATEOAS;

Efficient routing with proper HTTP verb check;

Built-in support for the OPTIONS and HEAD verbs;

Authentication and authorization;

Data caching and HTTP caching;

Rate limiting;