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Contributing to API Platform

First of all, thank you for contributing, you're awesome!

To have your code integrated in the API Platform project, there are some rules to follow, but don't panic, it's easy!

Reporting Bugs

If you happen to find a bug, we kindly request you to report it. However, before submitting it, please:

Then, if it appears that it's a real bug, you may report it using GitHub by following these 3 points:

  • Check if the bug is not already reported!
  • A clear title to resume the issue
  • A description of the workflow needed to reproduce the bug

NOTE: Don't hesitate giving as much information as you can (OS, PHP version extensions...)

Pull Requests

Writing a Pull Request

First of all, you must decide on what branch your changes will be based depending of the nature of the change. See the dedicated documentation entry.

To prepare your patch directly in the vendor/ of an existing project (convenient to fix a bug):

  1. Remove the existing copy of the library: rm -Rf vendor/api-platform/core
  2. Reinstall the lib while keeping Git metadata: composer install --prefer-source
  3. You can now work directly in vendor/api-platform/core, create a new branch: git checkout -b my_patch
  4. When your patch is ready, fork the project and add your Git remote: git remote add <your-name> git@github.com:<your-name>/core.git
  5. You can now push your code and open your Pull Request: git push <your-name> my_patch

Alternatively, you can also work with the test application we provide:

cd tests/Fixtures/app
./console assets:install --symlink
symfony serve

# or if you prefer using the PHP built-in web server
php -S localhost:8000 -t public/

Matching Coding Standards

The API Platform project follows Symfony coding standards. But don't worry, you can fix CS issues automatically using the PHP CS Fixer tool:

php-cs-fixer.phar fix

And then, add the fixed file to your commit before pushing. Be sure to add only your modified files. If any other file is fixed by cs tools, just revert it before committing.

Backward Compatibility Promise

API Platform is following the Symfony Backward Compatibility Promise.

When you are making a change, make sure no BC break is added.

Deprecating Code

Adding a deprecation is sometimes necessary in order to follow the backward compatibility promise and to improve an existing implementation.

They can only be introduced in minor or major versions (main branch) and exceptionally in patch versions if they are critical.

See also the related documentation for Symfony.

Sending a Pull Request

When you send a PR, just make sure that:

  • You add valid test cases (Behat and PHPUnit).
  • Tests are green.
  • You make a PR on the related documentation in the api-platform/docs repository.
  • You make the PR on the same branch you based your changes on. If you see commits that you did not make in your PR, you're doing it wrong.
  • Also don't forget to add a comment when you update a PR with a ping to the maintainers, so he/she will get a notification.

Tests

On api-platform/core there are two kinds of tests: unit (phpunit through simple-phpunit) and integration tests (behat).

Both simple-phpunit and behat are development dependencies and should be available in the vendor directory.

PHPUnit and Coverage Generation

To launch unit tests:

vendor/bin/simple-phpunit --stop-on-failure -vvv

If you want coverage, you will need the pcov PHP extension and run:

vendor/bin/simple-phpunit --coverage-html coverage -vvv --stop-on-failure

Sometimes there might be an error with too many open files when generating coverage. To fix this, you can increase the ulimit, for example:

ulimit -n 4000

Coverage will be available in coverage/index.html.

Behat

The command to launch Behat tests is:

php -d memory_limit=-1 ./vendor/bin/behat --profile=default --stop-on-failure --format=progress

If you want to launch Behat tests for MongoDB, the command is:

MONGODB_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017 APP_ENV=mongodb php -d memory_limit=-1 ./vendor/bin/behat --profile=mongodb --stop-on-failure --format=progress

To get more details about an error, replace --format=progress by -vvv. You may run a mongo instance using docker:

docker run -p 27017:27017 mongo:latest

License and Copyright Attribution

When you open a Pull Request to the API Platform project, you agree to license your code under the MIT license and to transfer the copyright on the submitted code to Kévin Dunglas.

Be sure to you have the right to do that (if you are a professional, ask your company)!

If you include code from another project, please mention it in the Pull Request description and credit the original author.

Releases

This section is for maintainers.

  1. Update the JavaScript dependencies by running ./update-js.sh (always check if it works in a browser)
  2. Update the CHANGELOG.md file (be sure to include Pull Request numbers when appropriate)
  3. Create a signed tag: git tag -s vX.Y.Z -m "Version X.Y.Z"
  4. Create a release using GitHub's UI and copy the changelog
  5. Create a new release of api-platform/api-platform