API Generator (Feature request)

[jonny7]

This is feature request for 3.0. I wondered about having Gii include an API generator/Template. I think Gii is great! But I haven't been able to see a way to generate a base API. But something that could analyse models and relations as Gii does and then create potentially Repository Pattern or JSON API style or similar based off those would be a cool concept. Spring has something similar where you can use their starter wizard in combination with JPA to generate entities etc.

No worries, if you don't think this is a good idea 🙂

[cebe]

I am currently working on a generator that will take an OpenAPI 3 spec and generate database, models, controllers from it. The base work is happening in https://github.com/cebe/php-openapi/

Other forms of generating API code are also possible.

[xepozz]

@cebe How your progress?
will It be compatible with yii3?

[cebe]

See https://github.com/cebe/yii2-app-api, it is currently Yii2 only.