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Optional Additional Parameters

When you are creating your API settings file, there are a range of optional parameters that you can declare for each of your endpoints. The optional parameters are as follows:

Required Fields


"Exists": {
  "url_segments": "api/exists/members/{id}",
  "request_type": "GET",
  "description": "Check if instance exists",
  "required_fields": [
    {
      "name": "id",
      "label": "ID"
    }
  ]
}

If you have a close look at the url_segments, above, you'll notice that the final segment is for 'id' and it's inside curly brackets. When you see this type of pattern in the URL segments, it means that we are expecting a value (in this case, 'id') to be passed in via the URL.

Before Hook


"Update": {
  "url_segments": "api/update/trongate_administrators/{id}",
  "request_type": "PUT",
  "description": "Update a database record",
  "enableParams": true,
  "required_fields": [
    {
      "name": "id",
      "label": "ID"
    }
  ],
  "authorization":{
    "roles": [
    "admin"
    ]
  },
  "beforeHook": "_prep_password"
}

The underscore at the start of _prep_password() means that the method is 'protected'. In other words, it cannot be invoked by going to a particular URL.

After Hook


"Fetch Info": {
  "url_segments": "fetch/{id}",
  "request_type": "GET",
  "description": "Fetch a database record",
  "enableParams": true,
  "required_fields": [
    {
      "name": "id",
      "label": "ID"
    }
  ],
  "authorization":{
    "roles": [
    "admin"
    ]
  },
  "afterHook": "_prep_date"
}

Again, you can see that the after hook's method name begins with an underscore. This means that the method is protected.

Before hooks and after hooks are important. Let's explore them in a little more detail!