/**
* Parse the incoming request and store the request params and meta data into
* the class variables.
*
* @return RestServer
*/
public static function process_request()
{
$request_method = strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']);
$request_params = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$request_params = strstr($request_params, WS_API_BASE_DIR);
$request_params = explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $request_params);
array_shift($request_params);
$return_obj = new RestServer();
$data = array();
switch ($request_method) {
case 'get':
$data = $_GET;
break;
case 'post':
$data = $_POST;
break;
case 'put':
parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $put_vars);
$data = $put_vars;
break;
}
$return_obj->set_method($request_method);
$return_obj->set_params($request_params);
$data = Validate::sanitize($data);
$return_obj->set_request_vars($data);
if (isset($data['data'])) {
$return_obj->set_data(json_decode($data['data']));
}
return $return_obj;
}
