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@RouteResource does not work


You simply cannot mix implicit and explicit route generation (for a single route) in FOSRestBundle.

@RouteResource is meant for "prefixing" during implicit route generation, while @Get is meant for explicit routing.

Also, implicit routing is meant to speedup standard CRUD resource editing, so it is NOT your case: just go for the explicit routing and avoid all the complication. You can still benefit of other FOSRestBundle features, like View handler, @ParamFetchers, ...

Why

With implicit route generation, the route is extracted from the method name (e.g. postTypeAction becomes something like POST /type,cgetTypeAction becomes something like GET /types).

If you choose the explicit way, you use @Route, @Get, @Post, ... annotations, to set the resource URL to whatever you want. With explicit routing,@RouteResource doesn't make sense; just use the standard Symfony prefixes.

The annotation @RouteResource on the other hand, is there so that you can customize the route resource name (e.g. get_RESOURCE_myaction).

Debug you code

To clarify, here some output of app/console debug:router from your code (I've applied some syntax fix to your project to run this commands).

NOTE: I've set the prefix to /api/prefix to avoid confusions

@RouteResource + @Get (This explain why you get 404 errors):

 Name                     Method Scheme Host Path                               get_property_types       GET    ANY    ANY  /api/prefix/types.{_format}   

@RouteResource only (note that implicit naming take place):

 Name                     Method Scheme Host Path                               get_property_types       GET    ANY    ANY  /api/prefix/property/types.{_format}

@Get only (note it is the same of your current scenario, just the route name changes since is not set in @Get):

 Name                     Method Scheme Host Path                               get_types                GET    ANY    ANY  /api/prefix/types.{_format}

Removing both (is still the same, but.. just a coincidence since your method is called getTypesAction):

 Name                     Method Scheme Host Path                               get_types                GET    ANY    ANY  /api/prefix/types.{_format}       

An Off-Topic Note

In OOP, a static abstract function cannot be defined. A static method is defined at class level, so no polymorphism can take place because PHPcannot know in advance which sub-class is to be used. When the method is NOT static, PHP knows the object class (since can access $this) and youcan have polymorphic behaviour.

In your class Cboujon\PropertyBundle\Entity\Property you need to remove the method static abstract function getLabel or define itas abstract function getLabel.


If I understood you correctly you should change prefix in routing.yml from

perifx: /api

to

prefix: /api/properties

to have this url http://localhost:8000/api/properties/types


Well, you can simply remove the @GET annotation from your getTypesAction() method and rely on the default route creation behaviour of FOSRestBundle (your method will then be accessible via /api/property/types).

Edit: Basically, this is what is described on http://symfony.com/doc/master/bundles/FOSRestBundle/5-automatic-route-generation_single-restful-controller.html#define-resource-actions.