symfony3: create a restful api controller

We want to implement a basic api controller and a client to test it.

create a controller in your bundle.
Save it to AppBundle/controllers/Api/UserController.php

	<?php
	/**
	* Created by PhpStorm.
	* User: root
	* Date: 16.07.16
	* Time: 15:34
	*/
	namespace AppBundle\Controller\Api;
	use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
	use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Method;
	use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
	use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
	class UserController extends Controller {
	/**
	* @Route("/api/user")
	* @Method("POST")
	*/
	public function newAction()
	{
	return new Response('this is it');
	}
	}

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edit you routing under app/config/routing.yml and add the app_api part

	app_api:
	resource: "@AppBundle/Controller/Api"
	type: annotation

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At that point the api controller is available unter "localhost:8000/api/user"

But we wan to write a short testfile, to test our api with gusszle.

add guzzle to your composer composer 
cmd->require eightpoints/guzzle-bundle

This loads guzzle.

Create a file named test.php in your project root

	<?php
	require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
	$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
	$response = $client->post('http://localhost:8000/api/user');
	echo $response->getBody();

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open a terminal an hit the file:
php test.php

You will get your controller response directly.