Part 3: Testing API

This application provides the following endpoints:

Method	URL	Action
POST	/api/publishers	Add a new publisher
GET	/api/publishers	Retrieve all publishers
DELETE	/api/publishers	Delete all publisher
PUT	/api/publishers/{id}	Update a publisher by :id
DELETE	/api/publishers/{id}	Delete a publisher by :id
POST	/api/publishers/{publisherId}/advs	Create/Add an advertisement for a publisher
GET	/api/publishers/{publisherId}/advs	Retrieve all advertisements of a publisher
GET	/api/advs/{advsId}/publishers	Retrieve all publishers of an advertisement
GET	/api/advs/{id}	Retrieve a specific advertisement by id
PUT	/api/advs/{id}	Update a specific advertisement by id
DELETE	/api/advs/{id}	Delete a specific advertisement by id
DELETE	/api/publishers/{publisherId}/advs/{advsId}	Delete a specific advertisement by id from a specific publisher

Examples

Add a publisher (Postman):

Add an advertisement to publisher with id=1

Add a publisher (PHP - cURL):

Note: You will need an HTTP sever to run these PHP files. Navigate to the folder where these files are located and start the server as follow and then in your browser go to http://127.0.0.1:9000 to view the results:

cd path/to/your/app or PHP files
php -S 127.0.0.1:9000

<?php 
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'localhost:8080/api/publishers',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{
    "name":"Media.net",
    "publisher_address":"New York, USA",
    "publisher_contact":"info@media.net"
}',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
?>

Retrieve all publishers (PHP - cURL):

<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'localhost:8080/api/publishers',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
?>

1. Part 1: Initial Scenario
2. Part 2: Building API