I have studied about the development of APIs with Laravel, a quick question, is it possible to return an XML instead of a json?
instead of doing:
return response()->json($json);
Do something like:
return response()->xml($xml);
I looked for XML in the documentation and did not find it ...
See this extension, it works fine: link
Laravel does not work with xml natively
I hope I have helped!
There is nothing specific about XML, but I found this document that talks about file download . But for this you need to download it on the machine before you send it.
return response()->download($pathToFile);
return response()->download($pathToFile, $name, $headers);
return response()->download($pathToFile)->deleteFileAfterSend(true);
$pathToFile is the directory where you saved your XML. You can use 3 types of parameters.
The first one you just pass the file path.
The second you path, name and headers
The third one you pass the path and specifies whether to delete it after downloading.