Delete and DeleteAll action override in yii2 ActiveController

Question

Hi everyone i am implementing restful api in yii2 and having a conflict in ActionDelete and ActionDeleteall

when i pass one parameter in url like http://localhost/yii2-api/api/modules/v1/countries/CD it works fine and deletes the record CD from database with DELETE request. I dont know how can i pass multiple codes in url so that it redirects to actionDeleteall . Here is my controller code.

class CountryController extends ActiveController
{
public $modelClass = 'api\modules\v1\models\Country';

public function actions()
{
    $actions = parent::actions();
    unset($actions['index']);
    unset($actions['create']);
    unset($actions['delete']);
    unset($actions['update']);
    unset($actions['view']);
    return $actions;
}

public function actionDelete($id)
{
    $model=$this->findModel($id);

    if($model->delete())
    {
        $this->setHeader(200);
        echo json_encode(array('status'=>1,'data'=>array_filter($model->attributes)),JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

    }
    else
    {

        $this->setHeader(400);
        echo json_encode(array('status'=>0,'error_code'=>400,'errors'=>$model->errors),JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
    }

}

public function actionDeleteall()
{
    $ids=json_decode($_REQUEST['codes']);

    $data=array();

    foreach($ids as $id)
    {
        $model=$this->findModel($id);

        if($model->delete())
            $data[]=array_filter($model->attributes);
        else
        {
            $this->setHeader(400);
            echo json_encode(array('status'=>0,'error_code'=>400,'errors'=>$model->errors),JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
            return;
        }
    }

    $this->setHeader(200);
    echo json_encode(array('status'=>1,'data'=>$data),JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

}

}

Here is my urlmanager code

'urlManager' => [
        'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
        'enableStrictParsing' => false,
        'showScriptName' => false,
        'rules' => [
            [
                'class' => 'yii\rest\UrlRule',
                'controller' => 'v1/country',   // our country api rule,
                'tokens' => [
                    '{id}' => '<id:\\w+>'
                ],
            ]
        ],
    ]

Let me know how can i override that action and access it with multiple codes passed. Thank you

Answer 1

You could post an array of id values array and perform a loop

This is just a brief suggestion
obviuosly you should eval a proper error an resulting echo management

  public function actionDelete($myArray)
  {
      foreach( $myArray as $key => $value){

        $model=$this->findModel($value)
        $model->delete();
      } 
}

If you have you array of id in

 $myArray[0] = 'CD';
 $myArray[1] = 'AA'; 

the url should be

http://localhost/yii2-api/api/horsebuzz/api/web/v1/countries/myArray=[27,28]

Or if you use code use actionDelete($code) ... ad so on

Or better if use UrlHelper

  Url::to(['/countries/delete' , 'myArray' => [27,28] ]); 

  Url::to(['/countries/delete' , 'myArray' => $myArray ]); 

Answer 2

first disable strict parsing in urlmanager

'enableStrictParsing' => false

then you can call your custom actions with any method the url will look like

http://localhost/yii2-api/api/web/v1/country/uraction