Zend Framework 1.9.2+ Zend_Rest_Route Examples

Question

With the introduction of Zend_Rest_Route in Zend Framework 1.9 (and its update in 1.9.2) we now have a standardized RESTful solution for routing requests. As of August 2009 ther

Answer 1

great post, but I would have thought the Zend_Rest_Controller would route the request to the right action with respect to the HTTP method used. It'd be neat if a POST request to http:///Restful would automatically _forward to postAction for example.

I'll go ahead and provide another strategy below, but maybe I'm missing the point behind Zend_Rest_Controller ... please comment.

My strategy:

class RestfulController extends Zend_Rest_Controller
{

    public function init()
    {
     $this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender();
  $this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
    }

    public function indexAction()
    {
        if($this->getRequest()->getMethod() === 'POST')
             {return $this->_forward('post');}

        if($this->getRequest()->getMethod() === 'GET')
             {return $this->_forward('get');}

        if($this->getRequest()->getMethod() === 'PUT')
             {return $this->_forward('put');}

        if($this->getRequest()->getMethod() === 'DELETE')
             {return $this->_forward('delete');}

        $this->_helper->json($listMyCustomObjects);

    }
    // 1.9.2 fix
    public function listAction() { return $this->_forward('index'); }

[the rest of the code with action functions]