Why use ActiveController in REST in Yii2?

Question

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Hello! there is such an example on github - https://github.com/iiYii/yii2-rest-demo/blob/maste...
Tell me , what is the purpose of inheriting from ActiveController if all default methods are reassigned anyway? Maybe I'm missing something?

Answer 1

Perhaps inheritance is used for a classic reason? Somewhere it is necessary that the controller be defined as ActiveController or correspond to its interface. This is IMHO, I do not pretend to be the right answer)

Answer 2

Most likely overridden only as an example
Because, if I'm not mistaken, specifying `$modelClass` yii2 will itself carry out the necessary operations (described just the same in the controller methods)
Just in this case, the class will go to 5 lines and how else to explain what is here happening?)