How to create a custom API in Magento 2

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I. Application Programming Interface

API (Application Programming Interface) is an extremely important part of systems in general and Magento 2 in particular. We will learn the way to create a custom API in Magento 2.

We need a tool to interact with the API, we will use Postman, one of the most popular tools.

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II. The way to create a custom API in Magento 2

First of all, we will create a new module with the following directory structure:

begin

Firstly, we must define the API in etc/webapi.xml as below:

first

In there:

  • Route:
    + method: the way to get data, can be GET or POST
    + URL: Link address
  • Service:
    + class: link of the handler class
    + method: which method to handle this request
  • Method

Next, we need to create an interface class  as Api/FirstApiInterface.php:

next step

The Mode/firstApi.php has the below content:

custom

Finally, we need to create a preference at etc/di.xml as follow: 

custom API

We need to run the following commands for the module to work: 

  • bin/magento setup:upgrade
  • bin/magento setup:di:compile
  • bin/magento cache:flush

To verify the result, we create a request in Postman with its URL: 

https://localhost/rest/all/V1/landofcode-firstapi/hello?name=LandofCode

API custom

The results response: 

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