Yii creating a Amazon Product API class

Question

I am trying to design my Class Diagram. But I get stuck on this one.

I have already created all database corresponding models. But this time I need to create a model for Amazon API with no corresponding database for it.

When creating a model for the database I use CActiveRecord. But for this one I dont know which one I can extend from. Look at this CWebService:

This is for SOAP, but the Amazon Product API uses REST.

So the question is, when creating a model to call a REST API which class I need to extend from?

EDIT: I do NOT want to create a REST API. I want to CALL a REST API and write a class for that.

Answer 1

Use the ActiveResource extension for Yii. Also indicated to you by bool.dev.

Now for instance if you want to get details about certain product you GET http://api.am.com/prodcut //(just a dummy url for reference)

The models you need to create will need to satisfy/handle the data being returned to you. If you are displaying the returned data in a Form extend from CFormModel. if you are not showing it in a Form extend from CModel to create a data model.

For example if you are just showing the data in a table view you can create a model for product like so: class product extends CModel

Hope this helps unless I misunderstood your problem

(I was gonna post this as a comment but thought it was too long for the comment).