The SitePoint PHP blog has posted a tutorial introducing the use of ProxyManager in RESTful APIs to help interface your API endpoints directly with backend objects for the typical CRUD (create, read, update, delete) handling a REST API provides. ProxyManager is a tool created by Marco Pivetta to creating various kinds of proxies through a set of factory classes.

The proxy pattern is another cool design pattern in software development. A proxy is a class working as an interface to another class or web service. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll refer to proxied classes as subjects throughout the rest of the article. A proxy usually implements the same interface as the subject, so it looks like we’re calling the methods directly on the subject.

They start with a brief overview of proxies and the proxy design pattern for those not familiar then "cut to the chase" and show how to hook in ProxyManager via a custom adapter for the REST endpoints. They help you get all dependencies needed installed (via Composer) and the creation of a simple API using Silex and it's provider handling. They then create the application, set up the front controller and configure the relation between endpoint and proxy. Code is then included to create the required factories, interfaces and mappings. The tutorial wraps up with an example of using the API you've just created.