feat: Getting Single Category Record & API Resource

Author: ahmadhuss

app/Http/Controllers/Api/CategoryController.php

@@ -10,6 +10,21 @@
 class CategoryController extends Controller
 {
     public function index(){
-         return Category::orderBy('id')->get(); // Laravel will return as JSON format.
+       //  return Category::orderBy('id')->get(); // Laravel will return as JSON format.
+      // We only want id, name filed in the response.
+        return Category::select('id','name')->get();
     }
+
+    // Route model binding
+    public function show(Category $category){
+        return $category; // It will return category as a JSON response object and it is the magic of Laravel
+
+        // It is difficult to return only id and name with the Route model binding
+        // There are only 2 ways:
+        // 1.Either you can use collection methods to filter
+        // 2.But now  it is time to introduce API resources which will contain set of rules for the API.
+        // php artisan make:resource CategoryResource
+    }
+
+
 }

routes/api.php

@@ -19,5 +19,10 @@
     return $request->user();
 });
 
-// API route
+// API route all methods are same like ResourceController
+// index, |create, store($request)|, show($id), |edit($id), update($request, $id)|, destroy($id)
+// Now we have to create the Category API
 Route::get('categories', [CategoryController::class, 'index']);
+
+// "{category}" will use Route Model Binding
+Route::get('categories/{category}', [CategoryController::class, 'show']);