In a new post to his site Alejandro Celaya shows you how to dispatch REST-like requests in Zend Expressive using a single-controller method.

I was digging into Zend Expressive and how to use controllers that allow me to share dependencies between different routes, instead of having to use different middlewares every time. Abdul wrote a great article on this subject that you can find here, which also became part of Expressive's cookbook some time later.

This is a perfect approach that easily allows to reuse some code, but then I thought how to do something similar in a rest environment, having a single class with different dispatchable methods that will be called depending on the request's HTTP method. This is a possible solution based on ZF2's AbstractRestfulController.

He starts by creating an AbstractRestController class to handle the basics of the REST handling, essentially matching verbs to their actions. He then extends this with a RestUserController class that overrides the necessary methods for only the HTTP verbs you want to change. He then shows how to register the route so it can be used by any request verb type (GET, POST, PUT, etc).