Let's say that I had the following API set up:
Controller:
<?php
namespace app\modules\v1\controllers;
use yii;
class ResourceController extends \yii\rest\ActiveController
{
public $modelClass = 'app\modules\v1\models\Resource';
}
Model:
use yii;
class Resource extends \yii\db\ActiveRecord
{
public static function tableName()
{
return 'ResourceTable';
}
public function fields()
{
return [
'id' => 'ResourceID',
'title' => 'ResourceTitle',
];
}
}
where my table only has the two columns, ResourceID
and Title
.
When I try a GET
request on the API, it works fine and returns the list of resources (or single resource in the case of resource/{id}
) with the aliased field names. But when I try to POST
to create a resource, I want to use the aliased field names (e.g. title
instead of ResourceTitle
). The problem is that the default CreateAction
supplied by Yii does $model->load()
, which looks for the field names in the table. If I use the aliased names then it returns an error. If I use the table field names, it works fine.
So my question is, is there a way to expose resource attributes to the end user where the field names (using the fields()
function) are the same for reading and creating? If possible, I'd like to avoid writing my own CreateAction.