APIWizard - Laravel API Generator

A powerful Laravel package that generates models, relations, and complete REST APIs from an interactive command line interface or via command options.

✨ Features

• 🎯 Interactive CLI - User-friendly prompts guide you through the generation process
• 🚀 Quick Generation - Create models, controllers, and routes in seconds
• 🔗 Automatic Relations - Define and generate model relationships effortlessly
• 🔄 Safe Updates - Add relations to existing models without overwriting code
• 🎨 Data Transformation - Optional transform methods for customizing API responses
• 📦 Complete REST API - Generates full CRUD endpoints automatically
• ⚙️ Non-Interactive Mode - Use command options for automation and scripting
• 🛠️ Customizable - Publish and modify stubs to match your coding style
• 📝 PSR-4 Compliant - Follows Laravel and PHP best practices

📋 Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or higher
• Laravel 11.x or 12.x

📦 Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require marghoobsuleman/apiwizard

The package will automatically register its service provider.

Publish Configuration (Optional)

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=apiwizard-config

Publish Stubs (Optional)

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=apiwizard-stubs

🚀 Usage

Available Commands

The package provides two commands (both work identically):

php artisan apiwizard:generate
# OR
php artisan modelwizard:generate

Interactive Mode

Run the command and follow the prompts:

php artisan apiwizard:generate

Example Interactive Session:

🧙 APIWizard - Laravel API Generator

Enter table name: users
Model name will be: User

Does it have any relations? (yes/no): yes
Enter related table name: posts
Type of relation:
  [0] hasOne
  [1] hasMany
  [2] belongsTo
  [3] belongsToMany
 > 1

✓ Added hasMany relation with posts

Add another relation? (yes/no): no

Do you want to modify returned data (add transform method)? (yes/no): yes

Do you want to create an API endpoint? (yes/no): yes
Enter API endpoint [/api/users]: /api/users

🔨 Generating files...

✓ Model created: /app/Models/User.php
✓ Related model created: /app/Models/Post.php
✓ Controller created: /app/Http/Controllers/API/UserController.php
✓ Routes added to: routes/api.php

✅ Generation completed successfully!

Non-Interactive Mode

Use command options for automation:

php artisan apiwizard:generate --table=users --relations=posts:hasMany --endpoint=/api/users --transform

Available Options:

| Option | Description | Example | |--------|-------------|---------| | --table | Table name (required for non-interactive) | --table=users | | --relations | Relations in format "table:type" (can be used multiple times) | --relations=posts:hasMany --relations=profile:hasOne | | --endpoint | API endpoint path | --endpoint=/api/users | | --transform | Include transform method in model | --transform | | --no-api | Skip API generation (model only) | --no-api |

Examples:

Generate model with multiple relations:

php artisan apiwizard:generate \
  --table=users \
  --relations=posts:hasMany \
  --relations=profile:hasOne \
  --relations=roles:belongsToMany \
  --endpoint=/api/users \
  --transform

Generate model without API:

php artisan apiwizard:generate --table=products --no-api

Simple model with API:

php artisan apiwizard:generate --table=categories --endpoint=/api/categories

📚 What Gets Generated

1. Model File

Generated at app/Models/{ModelName}.php:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    protected $table = 'users';
    
    protected $fillable = [
        // Add your fillable attributes here
    ];

    // Relations
    public function posts()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Post::class);
    }

    // Transform method (if requested)
    public function transform(): array
    {
        return [
            'id' => $this->id,
            // Add your custom transformations here
        ];
    }
}

2. Controller File

Generated at app/Http/Controllers/API/{ModelName}Controller.php:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\API;

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

class UserController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $users = User::paginate(15);
        
        return response()->json([
            'success' => true,
            'data' => $users->map(fn($item) => $item->transform()),
            'pagination' => [
                'total' => $users->total(),
                'per_page' => $users->perPage(),
                'current_page' => $users->currentPage(),
                'last_page' => $users->lastPage(),
            ],
        ]);
    }

    public function show($id)
    {
        $user = User::findOrFail($id);
        
        return response()->json([
            'success' => true,
            'data' => $user->transform(),
        ]);
    }

    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $validated = $request->validate([
            // Add your validation rules here
        ]);

        $user = User::create($validated);
        
        return response()->json([
            'success' => true,
            'message' => 'User created successfully',
            'data' => $user,
        ], 201);
    }

    public function update(Request $request, $id)
    {
        $user = User::findOrFail($id);
        
        $validated = $request->validate([
            // Add your validation rules here
        ]);

        $user->update($validated);
        
        return response()->json([
            'success' => true,
            'message' => 'User updated successfully',
            'data' => $user,
        ]);
    }

    public function destroy($id)
    {
        $user = User::findOrFail($id);
        $user->delete();
        
        return response()->json([
            'success' => true,
            'message' => 'User deleted successfully',
        ]);
    }
}

3. API Routes

Added to routes/api.php:

// UserController routes
Route::apiResource('users', \App\Http\Controllers\API\UserController::class);

This creates the following endpoints:

• GET /api/users - List all users (paginated)
• POST /api/users - Create a new user
• GET /api/users/{id} - Show a specific user
• PUT/PATCH /api/users/{id} - Update a user
• DELETE /api/users/{id} - Delete a user

⚙️ Configuration

After publishing the config file, you can customize:

return [
    // Model namespace
    'model_namespace' => 'App\\Models',

    // Controller namespace
    'controller_namespace' => 'App\\Http\\Controllers\\API',

    // Model path
    'model_path' => app_path('Models'),

    // Controller path
    'controller_path' => app_path('Http/Controllers/API'),

    // Routes file
    'routes_file' => base_path('routes/api.php'),

    // Default pagination
    'pagination' => 15,
];

🎨 Customizing Stubs

Publish the stubs and modify them to match your preferences:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=apiwizard-stubs

Stubs will be published to stubs/apiwizard/:

• model.stub - Model template
• controller.stub - Controller template

🔗 Supported Relation Types

• hasOne - One-to-one relationship
• hasMany - One-to-many relationship
• belongsTo - Inverse of one-to-many
• belongsToMany - Many-to-many relationship

💡 Tips & Best Practices

1. Always review generated code - The package creates a solid foundation, but you should review and customize:

   • Add proper validation rules in controllers
   • Define fillable/guarded attributes in models
   • Customize transform methods for your API responses

2. Use transform methods - They provide a clean way to control API output without cluttering controllers

3. Leverage non-interactive mode - Perfect for:

   • CI/CD pipelines
   • Seeding multiple models
   • Scripted setups

4. Customize stubs - Publish and modify stubs to match your team's coding standards

🧪 Testing

Run the tests with:

composer test

📝 Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

🔒 Security

If you discover any security-related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

📄 License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

👏 Credits

• Marghoob Suleman
• All Contributors

🌟 Support

If you find this package helpful, please consider giving it a ⭐️ on GitHub!

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