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How to add REST features to your Cakephp 3 App

To add REST features to your CakePHP 3 you simply need to add two lines of code to your controller;

This will allow any action in the controller to be viewed as JSON or XML .

To view your action index as JSON simply;

http://localhost/mycakeapp/mycontroller/index.json

Rest Examples:
http://localhost/mycakeapp/mycontroller/view/1.json

http://localhost/mycakeapp/mycontroller/view/1.xml

public function initialize()
{
parent::initialize();
$this->loadComponent('RequestHandler');
}

Then in routes.php file /config/routes.php add;

Router::extensions(['json', 'xml']); //ensure this is before the below line.
Router::scope('/', function (RouteBuilder $routes) {

This is a great tutorial about how to create a REST Service with CakePHP.