laravel 5.5 resource restful API

Question

I am trying to create an API for my app so that I can share the endpoint and have one app as the core application with business logic and the other can connect with an exposed endpoint to consume the function as services.

I am getting an error when I try to hit the endpoint.

Below is my route/api.php

<?php

use App\PostModell;
use App\Http\Resources\PostModellResource;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
});
Route::get( '/cars',function(){
    return new PostModellResource(PostModell::all());
}); 

My resource class looks like

class PostModellResource extends Resource
{
         public function toArray($request)
    {
        return
        [
            'id'=>$this->id,
            'title'=>$this->title,
            'body'=>$this->body,
            'created_at' => $this->created_at,
            'updated_at' => $this->updated_at,

        ];          
    }

The error is

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Answer 1

use api prefix-

127.0.0.1:8000/api/cars 

To convert collection of resources, you need to use collection() method-

return PostModellResource::collection(PostModell::all());

Answer 2

Since the route in api routes, use this URI:

https://example.com/api/cars

Also, as I'm showing in my best practices repo you shouldn't put the logic into routes, move all the logic in a controller instead.

Answer 3

if you are using Laravel api.php then you have to use api prefix,

Or if your using Lumen web.php then you can call it directly or you can define api prefix as per your requirement.

in Laravel : localhost:8000/api/yoururl

in Lumen : localhost/yoururl