PHP - Calling internal API

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I am a newbie in PHP. I created a Laravel project using *composer**. My controller has two endpoint uploadFile and testpost:

public function uploadFile(Request $request) {
    //there are more code about reading uploaded file here. Everything is OK here.

    $request = Request::create('/api/testpost', 'POST',
        [],[],[],[],'{"this is" : "my test content"}');
    return Route::dispatch($request);
}

public function testpost(Request $request){
    Log::info($request->all());

    return response()->json(["title"=>"this is the test get method"]);
}

uploadFile is invoked by POST action from a form which carries an uploaded JSON file. I want to call testpost inside of uploadFile method using Request::create(...) and Route::dispatch(...). testpost is invoked however the body of request is not as expected. The log file shows me that $request->all() does not return the request body which I expect to be {"this is" : "my test content"}.

My log file:

[2019-02-23 12:16:47] local.INFO: array (
  '_token' => 'JzQjclRD4WaTkezqLxlU48D1dM7S3X2X3hok3kr4',
  'employee_file' => 
  Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile::__set_state(array(
     'test' => false,
     'originalName' => 'test_input_file.txt',
     'mimeType' => 'text/plain',
     'error' => 0,
     'hashName' => NULL,
  )),
)

What wrong in my code? API invocation or request body retrieval? I know that we can call testpost method directly instead of calling API. However, I ultimate purpose is to know how to call an internal API.

That's a very weird method to dispatch requests, and I think the reason of your issue is that original request is overlaps that you created manually. — Styx
– Styx, Commented Feb 23, 2019 at 18:10
I would expect something like HttpClient in .Net but I could not find it. — Ha Pham
– Ha Pham, Commented Feb 24, 2019 at 0:48
If you were using laravel/installer that you also have GuzzleHttp/Guzzle package installed globally. That's what you'd want to use. Docs: docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable — Styx
– Styx, Commented Feb 24, 2019 at 7:28

MHewison · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-23 13:49:28Z

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You don't need to use internal API calls for this.

If both methods are in the same class you can invoke directly with

$this->methodName($args);

and it will return the result directly to the calling function. (provided you have a return statement in the method you are invoking)

answered Feb 23, 2019 at 13:49

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Ha Pham Over a year ago

I know what you mean. Actually, I need to create two projects, one for the API, another one for the web app which calls that API. I just make the first step by calling the internal API like that to learn how to call API using PHP.

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