Making Requests To Your API

Making a request to your API is quite simple. The best way to do this is using a tool such as Postman.

Because we aren't versioning the API in the URI we need to define an Accept header to request a specific version. The header is formatted like so.

Accept: application/vnd.YOUR_SUBTYPE.v1+json

In the above example you would replace YOUR_SUBTYPE with the subtype name you defined in your configuration. Again, this is usually something unique to your application, such as its name or identifier, and is usually all lowercase.

Remember if you use a different standards tree, such as x, then you'd replace vnd with x.

Following the subtype name we have the version we want. In the above example we're requesting v1 of our API. This is then followed by a plus sign and the desired format. If the format is invalid the package will attempt to use the default format you defined in your configuration.

If you don't want to use Postman you can use a command line tool such as cURL.

$ curl -v -H "Accept: application/vnd.YOUR_SUBTYPE.v1+json" http://example.app/users

If you have strict mode enabled and you pass an invalid Accept header an unhandled Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\BadRequestHttpException will be thrown.

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