Finishing CRUD: Update, Delete and Resource Controller

In this lesson, we will finalize our resource Controller with two missing methods: update and delete the category.

First, the update method. The method for the Route is PUT, and in the Controller, the method is usually update.

routes/api.php:

Route::get('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
})->middleware('auth:sanctum');
 
Route::get('categories', [\App\Http\Controllers\Api\CategoryController::class, 'index']);
Route::get('categories/{category}', [\App\Http\Controllers\Api\CategoryController::class, 'show']);
Route::post('categories', [\App\Http\Controllers\Api\CategoryController::class, 'store']);
Route::put('categories/{category}', [\App\Http\Controllers\Api\CategoryController::class, 'update']); 
 
Route::get('products', [\App\Http\Controllers\Api\ProductController::class, 'index']);

app/Http/Controllers/Api/CategoryController.php:

class CategoryController extends Controller
{
    // ...
 
    public function update(Category $category, StoreCategoryRequest $request)
    {
        $category->update($request->all());
 
        return new CategoryResource($category);
    }
}

In the Controller, we use a Route Model Binding to find a record and the same Form Request for validation. In the update method, we update the category and return the updated category.

In the client, we can send...