api-platform/api-platform
Api Platform
API Platform is a headless content management system engine and framework used to build REST and GraphQL APIs. It utilizes schema-driven generation to automatically produce web endpoints based on predefined data model definitions.
The platform focuses on semantic data modeling, using structured classes and ontologies to ensure information is organized for search engines and semantic web tools. It provides an automated OpenAPI specification generator and a declarative system for creating administration dashboards to manage data records without custom frontend code.
The system includes capabilities for content negotiation to serve data in formats such as JSON, YAML, XML, and CSV. It implements security through OAuth 2.0 identity integration for access control and provides tools for client application scaffolding and API endpoint testing.
Features
- API Generators - Automatically generates REST and GraphQL endpoints based on predefined data model definitions.
- REST API Frameworks - Provides a comprehensive framework for building and exposing structured REST and GraphQL APIs with built-in validation.
- Schema-Driven Headless CMS - Automatically generates administration dashboards and APIs from a central data schema for headless content management.
- Semantic Data Models - Defines data models using classes and ontologies to expose semantic and search-engine friendly data.
- OpenAPI Specification Generators - Automatically generates standardized OpenAPI specification files based on the underlying data models and endpoints.
- Ontologies - Organizes information using structured classes and ontologies to ensure semantic consistency and searchability.
- Admin Dashboard Generators - Provides an automated tool for generating administration dashboards to manage data records without custom frontend code.
- Admin Dashboards - Builds a data management dashboard by mapping database entities to a standardized set of administrative views.
- RESTful API Development - Builds and exposes REST and GraphQL web endpoints with built-in validation, filtering, and documentation.
- Schema-Driven API Generators - Automatically produces REST and GraphQL endpoints by interpreting predefined data model definitions.
- Automatic Specification Generators - Automatically derives API specifications by reflecting the current state of the underlying data schema.
- API Documentation Generators - Automatically generates standardized OpenAPI specifications to document available API endpoints and data structures.
- OAuth and Identity Providers - Integrates with external identity providers using OAuth protocols for secure API access control.
- OAuth Authentication - Secures API endpoints by validating identity tokens through the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol.
- API and Data Services - Scaffolds REST and GraphQL APIs for web applications.
- API Frameworks - API framework for Symfony with JSON-LD support.
- Distributions - Provides a framework for building APIs.
- Server Frameworks - Specialized Symfony framework for hypermedia REST APIs.
