PHP 中的 REST API 集成

Question

My client has got some RESTful services written in ASP.net and front end code in PHP . He is providing me DTO classes and API url. Can anyone help me how to call these API services from PHP ? I do not know how to make use of DTO classes in PHP

Answer 1

The DTO classes will just specify the contract. I would imagine they will map to JSON objects returned by the service (although you will want to check the serialization format).

You should look into deserializing JSON to PHP objects: http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php

Something like

$url="http://www.website.com/api/object/1";
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$data = json_decode($json);

It doesnt seem trivial to decode to a specific class but you could declare a class for each DTO in PHP and instantiate the appropriate class from the client code and populate it with the data on the dynamic object that json_decode() returns.