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Launching Restaurants APIs

Launching Restaurants APIs

Learn how to set up the building blocks of the new module in a way that facilitates easy maintenance.

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Migration and Eloquent model

Each new module starts with a database table. Here as well, we will first create the restaurants table first. Let’s go through the migration file first:

PHP
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
class CreateRestaurantsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('restaurants', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->foreignId('user_id')->constrained();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('address_line_1');
            $table->string('address_line_2')->nullable();
            $table->string('pincode');
            $table->string('city');
            $table->foreignId('state_id')->nullable()->constrained();
            $table->foreignId('country_id')->nullable()->constrained();
            $table->timestamps();
            $table->softDeletes();
        });
    }
    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('restaurants');
    }
}

The columns are self-explanatory. We have only kept a few columns compulsory. We are also going to use the ‘Soft Delete’ feature to archive the records instead of deleting them. ...