API first development for Nestor-QA

[kinow]

Known cases:

• Testopia
• Trello

Premises:

• Security is a concern for this - see Testopia Web Services with Cookies vs. Tokens
• Automatic documentation is good too - like https://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

[kinow]

Using the teepluss/hmvc and teepluss/restable modules, we are able to use the vanilla Restful controllers in Laravel creating an API, call the methods (via hmvc), and return the elements in a nice JSON object (or xml, etc, thanks to restable). Closing since we've designed a solution. Will propagate this change through the rest of the project as I fix the broken parts.

The project controller (not in the manage section) is fully API first, including pagination.