I am sending JSON to an API that I am building. For this particular instance, I am create a "contacts" database.

The client side has the ability to create contacts and related contacts that can be sent to the api. Eg. Individual or a married Couple or an Organisation with a specific Individual contact.

My API is currently set to handle one set of input, eg name, address etc.

But I need handle the option of multiple contacts in one payload.

I have a controller, an object the handles the form data, and the model that does the specific CRUD for my app.

I am deliberating over whose job it is to process the data - especially if there is multiple records to process.

One one hand, the form object can check the integrity of the request and the make several calls to the model->create method.

eg. sudo

For Each Record
validate
Success: Pass record to model
Model->create

OR

Should I pass the entire recordset to the model.

eg. sudo

Form Class: Check Integrity
Model->Create(  All Records )
Model: loop and create.

Or somewhere between the two maybe? I keep second-guessing myself.

My controller (http://laravel.io/bin/y6Dma)

Form Processing Object (http://laravel.io/bin/3B9rP)

Model (http://laravel.io/bin/Md4K0)