using Laravel 7 Api routes - php

Question

I'm trying to use simple laravel api for getting and sending requests, after define this api routes in api.php:
Route::prefix('Api/v1')->group(function () {
Route::any('login', 'Api\v1\AuthController#login');
Route::any('register', 'Api\v1\AuthController#register');
});
and creating AuthController in app/http/controller/Api/v1 directory:
class AuthController extends Controller
{
public function login()
{
dd(request()->all());
}
public function register()
{
dd(request()->all());
}
}
i get 404 error on this link:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/Api/v1/login
how can i resolve this problem?

Answer 1

Routes in api.php are automatically prefixed with /api. Currently, your routes are:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/Api/v1/login
http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/Api/v1/register
So navigating to http://127.0.0.1:8000/Api/v1/login is a 404.
If you remove /Api, and just use Route::prefix('/v1') ... then you should have no issue.
Also, always double check your routes with php artisan route:list to see what's wrong.

Answer 2

The API Routes are already prefixed by /api . I think the correct structure you'd looking for would be
Route::prefix('v1')->group(function () {
Route::any('login', 'AuthController#login');
Route::any('register', 'AuthController#register');
});
This way, you're calling the methods Login and Register from you /Controllers/AuthController file with the route
http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/login

Answer 3

You can use many ways to define routes for API in laraval > routes > api.php file.
In this i'm going to explain how we can use routes group in the laraval..
Route::group([
'namespace' => 'Customers', //namespace App\Http\Controllers\Customers;
'middleware' => 'auth:api', // this is for check user is logged in or authenticated user
'prefix' => 'customers' // you can use custom prefix for your rote {{host}}/api/customers/
], function ($router) {
// add and delete customer groups
Route::get('/', [CustomerController::class, 'index']); // {{host}}/api/customers/ this is called to index method in CustomerController.php
Route::post('/create', [CustomerController::class, 'create']); // {{host}}/api/customers/create this is called to create method in CustomerController.php
Route::post('/show/{id}', [CustomerController::class, 'show']); // {{host}}/api/customers/show/10 this is called to show method in CustomerController.php parsing id to get single data
Route::post('/delete/{id}', [CustomerController::class, 'delete']); // {{host}}/api/customers/delete/10 this is called to delete method in CustomerController.php for delete single data
});
You can create controller using artisan command with default methods
php artisan make:controller Customers/CustomerController --resource