How to make plugin components function available as Rest API in OctoberCMS?

Question

In one of the components of my plugin, I've got a function which reads user input (using Input::get() ), creates a Model and saves it to the database. The data is submitted to this function via a html form. Now I want to allow users to add new data via Rest API too. So I create a file called routes.php in the root directory of my plugin and define a route for posting data. As it's logical to reuse the code that is already available in my plugins component, I tried to map the route to the already available component function:

Route::post('/items', 'Acme\Plugin\Components\ItemsList@addItem');

But this does not work and I get the following error:

The component Acme\\Plugin\\Components\\ItemsList does not contain a method getAfterFilters

Is this how the code should be reused in my Rest API? Why am I getting this error?

Answer 1

make a controller with no extend and use dependency injection for the component in the constructor

or

extend from

Illuminate\Routing\Controller

and dependecy injection

you can use the "Route::resource" function