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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

By : Branko Ajzele
Book Image

Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

By: Branko Ajzele

Overview of this book

Magento is an open-source, enterprise-level e-commerce platform with unlimited scope for customization. This makes it a great choice not only for vendors but for developers as well. This book guides you through Magento development, teaching you how to develop modules that extend or change its functionality, leading to more ?exible and profitable Magento stores. You start with a structural overview of the key Magento development components. You will learn where things such as plugins, events, models, controllers, layouts, and UI components ft into the development landscape. You will go through examples of using these components to extend Magento. As you progress, you will be building a diverse series of small but practical Magento modules. By the end of this book, you will not only have a solid foundation in the Magento development architecture; but you will also have practical experience in developing modules to customize and extend Magento stores.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Types of APIs

Magento supports two types of APIs:

  • Representational State Transfer (REST ): The endpoints for APIs depend on webapi.xml and the individual url arguments of each route element, as we will soon see. The authentication is carried over in a request's header via a Bearer token.
  • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) : The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is available via a URL such as http://magelicious.loc/soap/default?wsdl&services=catalogProductRepositoryV1. Whereas the default string is optional, and it matches the code name of the Magento store in this case, if omitted, Magento will default to a default store, whatever its code might be. Likewise, the services parameter accepts one or more (comma-separated) lists of services. The full list of available services can be obtained via a URL such as http://magelicious.loc/soap/default?wsdl_list. Without...