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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

Overview of this book

Magento is one of the most exciting, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you an extensive suite of powerful tools for creating and managing an online store. After years of development, Magento 2 introduces itself with a strong emphasis on modularity, Web API's, automated testing and overall new technology stack platform.The long-awaited Magento 2 release introduces a whole new e-commerce platform to develop online stores. The all new Magento 2 architecture, Web APIs, and a host of other features are equally challenging to master as much as they are exciting to use. Tshis book will ease the learning curve by offering step-by-step guidance on how to extend the core functionality of your Magento 2 store. This book is your one-stop guide to build and customize a quality e-commerce website from the latest version of one of the largest, fastest growing, and most popular e-commerce platforms—Magento 2. We start off with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Magento to give you a foundation to work from. We then move on to configure the development and basic production environment for Magento. After this, you’ll get to grips with the major concepts and conventions that are new to the Magento 2 platform. We then delve deeper to get to the core of automated deployments, persisting data, writing data fixture scripts and applying various backend and frontend modifications. As we near the end of the book, you will learn to make API calls and write automated tests. Finally, you will be guided through building a full-blown helpdesk module from scratch. By the end of this book, you will have learned a wide range of techniques to extend and customize your Magento 2 store to fit the requirements of your business.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Magento 2 Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. The Web API

Throughout previous chapters, we learned how to use some of the backend components so that storeowners can manage and manipulate the data such as customers, products, categories, orders, and so on. Sometimes this is not enough, like when we are pulling data in or out from third-party systems. In cases like these, the Magento Web API framework makes it easy to call Magento services through REST or SOAP.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • User types

  • Authentication methods

  • REST versus SOAP

  • Hands-on with token-based authentication

  • Hands-on with OAuth-based authentication

  • OAuth-based Web API calls

  • Hands-on with session-based authentication

  • Creating custom Web APIs

  • Search Criteria Interface for list filtering

Before we can start making Web API calls, we must authenticate our identity and have the necessary permissions (authorization) to access the API resource. Authentication allows Magento to identify the caller's user type. Based on the user's (administrator, integration...