Updates for addon/modules to make it easier to create APIs

modules/Sample/Http/Controllers/Api/SampleController.php

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Modules\Sample\Http\Controllers\Api;
+
+use App\Http\Controllers\Api\RestController;
+use Illuminate\Http\Request;
+
+class SampleController extends RestController
+{
+    /**
+     * Just send out a message
+     * @param Request $request
+     */
+    public function index(Request $request)
+    {
+        return $this->message('Hello, world!');
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param Request $request
+     */
+    public function hello(Request $request)
+    {
+        // Another way to return JSON, this for a custom response
+        // It's recommended to use Resources for responses from the database
+        return response()->json([
+            'name' => Auth::user()->name,
+        ]);
+    }
+
+}

modules/Sample/Http/Routes/admin.php

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?php
+
+# This is the admin path. Comment this out if you don't have
+# an admin panel component.
+Route::group([], function () {
+    Route::get('/', 'AdminController@index');
+});

modules/Sample/Http/Routes/api.php

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * This is publicly accessible
+ */
+Route::group(['middleware' => []], function() {
+    Route::get('/', 'SampleController@index');
+});
+
+/**
+ * This is required to have a valid API key
+ */
+Route::group(['middleware' => [
+    'api.auth'
+]], function() {
+    Route::get('/hello', 'SampleController@hello');
+});

modules/Sample/Http/Routes/web.php

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?php
+
+Route::group(['middleware' => [
+    'role:user' # leave blank to make this public
+]], function() {
+    # all your routes are prefixed with the above prefix
+    # e.g. yoursite.com/sample
+    Route::get('/', 'SampleController@index');
+});

modules/Sample/Http/routes.php

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-Route::group(['middleware' => [
-    'role:admin|user' # leave blank to make this public
-]], function() {
-
-    # all your routes are prefixed with the above prefix
-    # e.g. yoursite.com/sample
-    Route::get('/', 'SampleController@index');
-
-    # This is the admin path. Comment this out if you don't have
-    # an admin panel component.
-    Route::group([
-         'middleware' => ['role:admin'],
-     ], function () {
-        Route::get('/admin', 'AdminController@index');
-    });
-});

modules/Sample/Models/SampleTable.php

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Modules\Sample\Models;
+
+use App\Models\BaseModel;
+
+class SampleTable extends BaseModel
+{
+    public $table = '';
+    protected $fillable = [];
+}

modules/Sample/Providers/SampleServiceProvider.php

@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ class SampleServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
      */
     protected function registerRoutes()
     {
+        /**
+         * Routes for the frontend
+         */
         Route::group([
             'as' => 'sample.',
             'prefix' => 'sample',
@@ -62,7 +65,33 @@ class SampleServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
             'middleware' => ['web'],
             'namespace' => 'Modules\Sample\Http\Controllers'
         ], function() {
-            $this->loadRoutesFrom(__DIR__ . '/../Http/routes.php');
+            $this->loadRoutesFrom(__DIR__ . '/../Http/Routes/web.php');
+        });
+
+        /**
+         * Routes for the admin
+         */
+        Route::group([
+            'as' => 'sample.',
+            'prefix' => 'api/sample/admin',
+            // If you want a RESTful module, change this to 'api'
+            'middleware' => ['web', 'role:admin'],
+            'namespace' => 'Modules\Sample\Http\Controllers\Admin'
+        ], function() {
+            $this->loadRoutesFrom(__DIR__ . '/../Http/Routes/admin.php');
+        });
+
+        /**
+         * Routes for an API
+         */
+        Route::group([
+            'as' => 'sample.',
+            'prefix' => 'api/sample',
+            // If you want a RESTful module, change this to 'api'
+            'middleware' => ['api'],
+            'namespace' => 'Modules\Sample\Http\Controllers\Api'
+        ], function() {
+            $this->loadRoutesFrom(__DIR__ . '/../Http/Routes/api.php');
         });
     }
 

modules/Sample/composer.json

@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 {
-    "name": "nabeel/sample",
+    "name": "/sample-module",
     "type": "laravel-module",
-    "license": "MIT",
     "description": "",
     "authors": [
         {
-            "name": "Nabeel Shahzad",
-            "email": "gm@nabs.io"
+            "name": "",
+            "email": ""
         }
     ],
     "require": {
-        "joshbrw/laravel-module-installer": "dev-master"
+        "joshbrw/laravel-module-installer": "0.1.x"
     },
     "extra": {
         "laravel": {