CakePHP3 CRUD API and API Routing - crud

Question

I am using the Friends of Cake CRUD plugin for my back-end API. I am also using API prefixes for my routes:
Router::prefix('Api', function ($routes) {
$routes->extensions(['json', 'xml', 'ajax']);
$routes->resources('Messages');
$routes->resources('ReportedListings');
$routes->fallbacks('InflectedRoute');
});
So far so good. My controller is as follows:
namespace App\Controller\Api;
use App\Controller\AppController;
use Cake\Event\Event;
use Cake\Core\Exception\Exception;
class MessagesController extends AppController {
use \Crud\Controller\ControllerTrait;
public function initialize() {
parent::initialize();
$this->loadComponent(
'Crud.Crud', [
'actions' => [
'Crud.Add',
'update' => ['className' => 'Crud.Edit']
],
'listeners' => ['Crud.Api'],
]
,'RequestHandler'
);
$this->Crud->config(['listeners.api.exceptionRenderer' => 'App\Error\ExceptionRenderer']);
$this->Crud->addListener('relatedModels', 'Crud.RelatedModels');
}
public function beforeFilter(Event $event){
parent::beforeFilter($event);
}
public function add() {
return $this->Crud->execute();
}
When I make a call as follows:
[POST] /api/messages.json
I get an error:
Action MessagesController::index() could not be found, or is not accessible.
I instead use:
[POST] /messages.json
I don't get the error and I can add a message. So the question is why with my api prefix routing does the CRUD look for index and how can I avoid this behavior?

Answer 1

I found the issue:
Router::prefix('Api', function ($routes) {
....
}
The 'Api' should be lowercase!
Router::prefix('api', function ($routes) {
....
}