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apiato PHP Framework for building scalable API's on top of Laravel.
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A lot of files have been moved around, renamed or removed.
See the full changelog for Apiato and Core .
Possible breaking changes are documented in the upgrade guide .
Notable Changes
update min PHP version to ^8.2
update min Laravel version to ^11.23
allow configuration using a (Similar to Laravel)
allow publishing apiato.php configs
rename generate command from apiato:generate to apiato:make
change abstract class namespace from Apiato\Core\Abstracts to Apiato\Core
remove laravel/passport dependency test: improve Core coverage by +85%
Apiato
Configs
Removed
app/Ship/Configs/notification.php config file
apiato.api.prefix
apiato.api.enable_version_prefix
apiato.requests.allow-roles-to-access-all-routes
apiato.requests.force-valid-includes
apiato.requests.params
apiato.seeders
apiato.tests
appSection-authentication.require_email_verification
appSection-authentication.email_verification_link_expiration_time_in_minute
appSection-authentication.login - login with multiple field feature has been removed
appSection-authentication.allowed-reset-password-urls
appSection-authentication.allowed-verify-email-urls
Changed
apiato.api.expires-in renamed and moved to appSection-authentication.tokens-expire-in
apiato.api.refresh-expires-in renamed and moved to appSection-authentication.refresh-tokens-expire-in
apiato.throttle renamed to apiato.rate-limiter
Added
apiato.defaults.app
apiato.rate-limiter.name
apiato.apps.web.url
Error Handling Error handling is completely reworked.
See the upgrade guide for more Details.
Core
Abstract\Parent Classes
Action
Commands
Controller
remove the usage of Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\Access\AuthorizesRequests trait
remove the usage of Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests trait
remove usage of HashIdTrait
Since Api and Web controllers were extending the Controller class, those removed traits features are also no loger available in them.
ApiController
WebController
Job
remove the usage of following traits
Illuminate\Bus\Queueable
Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable
Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue
Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels
remove Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue interface usage
Mail
remove the usage of Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels trait
Notification
remove usage of 'notification.channels' config
Request Request class authorization features has been changed drastically. See to the upgrade guide for more Details.
Task
TestCase
remove usage of Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\LazilyRefreshDatabase trait
Testing features has been changed drastically. See to the upgrade guide for more Details.
Value
Commands
remove apiato - use php artisan about instead
remove apiato:seed-deploy
remove apiato:seed-test
Exceptions All exceptions under the Apiato\Core\Exceptions namespace have been removed.
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\AuthenticationException
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\GeneratorErrorException
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\IncorrectIdException
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\InvalidTransformerException
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\MissingJSONHeaderException
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\MissingTestEndpointException
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\UndefinedMethodException
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\UnsupportedFractalIncludeException
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\WrongConfigurationsException
Apiato\Core\Exceptions\WrongEndpointFormatException
Misc
remove Apiato\Core\Middlewares\Http\ProfilerMiddleware middleware class
remove no_spaces custom validation rule
remove uncamelize helper function
remove all custom test assertions (except assertDatabaseTable )
Development Insights Open Source doesn't come cheap.
Here are some interesting facts about this release:
This release, including Core v13 and docs, took around 96 work days . That would be around 770 hours of work .
For the past year, I only took around 10 days off, including the weekends.
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