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Laravel Bullet

⚡️ Lightning fast CRUDs and routes registrations for Laravel Applications

This package gives you the power to make API Cruds to eloquent resources very fast, and you can use its dynamic routes registration based on conventions. If you don't like scaffolds, and don't like the repetitive crud operations and route registration for resources, this is the right package for you and your applications.

Installation
Basic Usage
Dynamic Routes
Middleware Configuration
Policy Classes
Validations and Requests
Action Hooks
API Resources (Presentation)
Actions in Details
Advanced Routes
- Custom HTTP Methods
- Route params and dependency injection
Performance and Other Tips
Changelog
Contributing
Security
Credits
License
Laravel Package Boilerplate

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require marcot89/laravel-bullet

Recommended: This package recommends the usage of Laravel Query Builder from Spatie team for index actions.

Basic Usage

Simply extend the ResourceController in your controller class:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use MarcoT89\Bullet\Controllers\ResourceController;

class UserController extends ResourceController
{
}

Done! Now you have all of these crud actions for the model User in your controller class:

index
store
update
destroy
show
edit
forceDelete*
restore*

Important: The methods forceDelete and restore is only displayed if the resource method use the laravel's trait SoftDeletes.

Convention: The resource model is infered by the convention. If you have a controller called PostController it will infer the model Post. The convention for the controller name is something like: [Model]Controller and it will not try to resolve from plural to singular. So if you define a controller PostsController it will try to resolve the model Posts instead of Post. Keep this in mind when creating your controllers.

That's it! This is sufficient to add crud actions to your controller. But what about define the routes dynamically? Thats what we're going to see next.

Dynamic Routes

Now that you created a UserController it is time to register the routes for the resource controller right? But what if those routes could be registered automatically? Ok! Lets do it!

Use Bullet::namespace in any group of routes you want. Example:

// routes/web.php
Route::middleware('auth', function () {
    Bullet::namespace('Resources'); // the default namespace is App\Http\Controllers
});

And that's it! Now all controllers created under Resources namespace will have their public methods registered automatically. This are the following routes:

If you want to hide some specific route or action you can use the $only or $except protected properties of the controller to do so:

class UserController extends ResourceController
{
    protected $only = ['index', 'show'];
    // or
    protected $except = ['destroy'];
}

This will generate only the expected routes as defined.

NOTE: keep in mind that the $only property has precedence over $except property and they cannot be used together.

IMPORTANT: The $only property will hide all other actions including the dynamic ones.

Middleware Configuration

Because we use dynamic routes, the middleware configuration is set on a controller property. Here are some examples:

// You can set only one middleware for all actions
protected $middleware = 'auth';
// or many middlewares
protected $middleware = ['auth', 'verified'];
// or customized for different actions
protected $middleware = [
    'auth',
    'auth:api' => ['except' => 'index'],
    'verified' => ['only' => ['store', 'update', 'destroy']]
];

Policy Classes

The policy classes are used automatically if you follow the convention. If the model of your controller is User, for example, laravel-bullet will try to register a UserPolicy policy class automatically. But it will skip the authorization if the policy class doesn't exist.

If you want a customized policy class to your controller you can set the property $policy in your controller. Like this:

class UserController extends ResourceController
{
    protected $policy = \App\Policies\CustomUserPolicy::class;
}

If you don't want a policy class to be registered even if it exists to a controller, you can just set the $policy property to false.

TIP: Policy classes are registered automatically, you don't need to register it in the AuthServiceProvider.

Validations and Requests

The validations are encouraged to be used in the request classes. The requests are automatically injected through conventions. If you have a model User in the controller and the current action is store, laravel-bullet will try to inject a request class in this following convention order:

App\Http\Requests\Users\StoreRequest::class
App\Http\Requests\UserStoreRequest::class

If none of those classes above exists, it will inject the default laravel Illuminate\Http\Request class.

And if you want to customize the request class to a specific action, you can define it in the requests protected property in controller:

use App\Http\Requests\MyCustomUserRequest;

class UserController extends ResourceController
{
    protected $requests = [
        'store' => MyCustomUserRequest::class,
    ];
}

Now the request MyCustomUserRequest class will be injected in the store action.

Old School Validations

If you don't like validations in request classes, or just prefer the laravel validate method, you can use in the action hooks:

class UserController extends ResourceController
{
    protected function beforeStore($request, $attributes)
    {
        return $this->validate($request, [
            'name' => 'required',
            'email' => 'required|email',
            'password' => 'required|min:6|confirmed',
        ]);
    }
}

You can find more about action hooks in the next topic.

Action Hooks

It is very common to perform some operations in case of success or fail of an action. For example emit events, log, dispatch jobs etc. All crud actions has a before and a after hook actions.

They are very usefull, for example for encrypt passwords for users:

class UserController extends ResourceController
{
    protected function beforeStore($request, $attributes): array
    {
        $attributes['password'] = bcrypt($attributes['password']);

        return $attributes;
    }
}

Or to emit an event when a user is created:

use App\Events\UserCreated;

class UserController extends ResourceController
{
    protected function afterStore($request, $user)
    {
        event(new UserCreated($user));
    }
}

Here is a list of the declarative action hooks for each action:

// Hooks for index action
protected function beforeIndex($request);
protected function afterIndex($request, $builder);

// Hooks for store action
protected function beforeStore($request, $attributes): array; // should return the attributes for the model being stored.
protected function afterStore($request, $model);

// Hooks for update action
protected function beforeUpdate($request, $attributes, $model): array;
protected function afterUpdate($request, $model);

// Hooks for destroy action
protected function beforeDestroy($request, $model);
protected function afterDestroy($request, $model);

// Hooks for show action
protected function beforeShow($request, $model);
protected function afterShow($request, $model);

// Hooks for edit action
protected function beforeEdit($request, $model);
protected function afterEdit($request, $model);

// Hooks for forceDelete action
protected function beforeForceDelete($request, $model);
protected function afterForceDelete($request, $model);

// Hooks for restore action
protected function beforeRestore($request, $model);
protected function afterRestore($request, $model);

API Resources (Presentation)

To set your own API Resource you can use the protected resource property in the controller class. Example:

use App\Http\Resources\UserResource;

class UserControlle extends ResourceController
{
    protected $resource = UserResource::class;
}

NOTE: this resource will be used in all actions.

Actions in Details

Pagination, Filters and Other Magics

If you use the recommended Laravel Query Builder composer package you should be able to use all of it's features very easy. Before dive into the examples bellow read their documentation and be familiarized with their usage.

All of these properties are available for the index and show actions:

protected $defaultSorts    = null;
protected $allowedFilters  = null;
protected $allowedIncludes = null;
protected $allowedSorts    = null;
protected $allowedFields   = null;
protected $allowedAppends  = null;
protected $defaultPerPage  = 15;
protected $maxPerPage      = 500;
protected $searchable      = true;

WARNING: This set of properties only works with Laravel Query Builder package. It WILL NOT WORK without it.

See how it works:

$defaultSorts

// Sort your records from latest to oldest by default
protected $defaultSorts = '-created_at';

$allowedFilters

protected $allowedFilters = ['name', 'email'];

Or you can use the allowedFilters method to a more complete case:

protected function allowedFilters()
{
    return [
        'name',
        AllowedFilter::exact('id'),
        AllowedFilter::exact('email')->ignore(null),
        AllowedFilter::scope('with_trashed'),
        AllowedFilter::custom('permission', FilterUserPermission::class),
    ];
}

$allowedIncludes

protected $allowedIncludes = ['posts.comments'];

Or you can use the allowedIncludes method to a more complete case:

protected function allowedIncludes()
{
    $includes = ['posts.comments'];

    if (user()->isAdmin()) {
        $includes[] = 'created_by';
        $includes[] = 'logs';
    }

    return $includes;
}

$allowedSorts

protected $allowedSorts = ['id', 'name', 'created_at'];

Or you can use the allowedSorts method to a more complete case:

protected function allowedSorts()
{
    return [
        'id',
        'name',
        'created_at',
        Sort::field('street', 'actual_column_street'),
    ];
}

$allowedFields

protected $allowedFields = ['id', 'name', 'email'];

Or you can use the allowedFields method to a more complete case:

protected function allowedFields()
{
    return [
        'id',
        'name',
        'email',
    ];
}

$allowedAppends

protected $allowedAppends = ['is_admin', 'is_published'];

Or you can use the allowedAppends method to a more complete case:

protected function allowedAppends()
{
    return ['is_admin', 'is_published'];
}

$defaultPerPage

protected $defaultPerPage = 15; // defaults to 15

This can be passed by the per_page or perPage query params.

$maxPerPage

protected $maxPerPage = 500; // defaults to 500

But the per_page or perPage params cannot pass this $maxPerPage limit. If you pass a per_page=1000 the pagination will limit to 300 if you have defined it. This is a protection to your queries. Use it wisely.

$searchable

protected $searchable = true; // defaults to true

By default all index actions accepts the search query param, and it will try to use a scopeSearch scope in the model if it's present. If it's not present it just ignores it. Set it to false if you have a search scope in your model but you don't want to make it available in your index action.

Custom Query Builder for Actions

There are many times that you have a big scope for your queries. For example if you are developing a multitenant application with teams some times you want to list the users of the current user's team. For that case you could customize the queries for the controller. For now, each of the actions has its own query method.

For index action you should override the getQuery method, like this:

protected function getQuery()
{
    return team()->users();
}

Here are the complete list of actions for the query builder to override when needed:

protected function getQuery($request); // for index action
protected function getStoreQuery($request);
protected function getUpdateQuery($request);
protected function getDestroyQuery($request);
protected function getShowQuery($request);
protected function getEditQuery($request);
protected function getForceDeleteQuery($request);
protected function getRestoreQuery($request);

Custom Actions

To completly customize a crud action you just need to declare it as it is expected. For limitation reasons all routes that need $id to find a model is given with $id param instead of the typed model object. Also it's not possible to inject request classes due to its declaration. For example, if you want to customize the update method that receives an $id you should do:

public function update($id)
{
    $user = User::findOrFail($id);
    ...
}

Now you can do whatever you want with the action method.

Advanced Routes

When using the bullet dynamic routes you don't have to write any route manually in any of the route files. With bullet routes any public method in the controller becomes an action with a registered route. Example:

class UserController extends ResourceController
{
    public function reports()
    {
        ...
    }
}

The public method will automatically register a route like this:

Route::get('users/reports', 'Resources\UserController@reports')->name('users.reports');

Custom HTTP Methods

If you want to customize the http method of the route just prefix it with the name of the http method. Like this:

public function postReports()
{
    ...
}

Now, the public method postReports will register a route with post http method:

Route::post('users/reports', 'Resources\UserController@postReports')->name('users.reports');

HINT: Note that the generated route name was 'users.reports' instead of 'users.post-reports'.

Route params and dependency injection

You can also pass arguments to the action and they will be converted to url params.

use App\Models\User;
use App\Http\Requests\MyCustomRequest;

class UserController extends ResourceController
{
    public function postReports(MyCustomRequest $request,  User $user, $report, $param1, $param2) // as many as you want.
    {
        ...
    }
}

Now this public method will register a route like this:

Route::post('users/reports/{user}/{report}/{param1}/{param2}', 'Resources\UserController@postReports')->name('users.post-reports');

NOTE: Any typed param will be injected normally as expected. And request params will be injected but ignored in the route definition.

Excluding Controller From Dynamic Routes

Sometimes you have to define a very custom routes for one of your controllers. To exclude your controller from the dynamic routes you should use the options parameters on namespace method. Like this:

Bullet::namespace('Api/V1', ['except' => 'InternalController']);

Now the routes for this controller won't be generated dynamically. You have to register its routes manually.

Performance and Other Tips

Only use public methods for actions

Since the public methods in the controller will register a route automatically, it's a good practice to use protected or private visibility for other helper methods to not generate trash routes.

Use `route:cache` command to increase performance

Since the laravel-bullet uses a lot of reflection and IO for every controller classes, using route:cache command for production environments will increase significantly the performance of your requests.

HTML and JSON responses

The actions index responds to json if it's an AJAX request, or will try to return a view under resources/views/users/index.blade.php.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email marcotulio.avila@gmail.com instead of using the issue tracker.

marcot89 / laravel-bullet

Maintainers

Details

README

Laravel Bullet

Table of Contents

Installation

Basic Usage

Dynamic Routes

Middleware Configuration

Policy Classes

Validations and Requests

Action Hooks

API Resources (Presentation)

Actions in Details

Pagination, Filters and Other Magics

Custom Query Builder for Actions

Custom Actions

Advanced Routes

Custom HTTP Methods

Route params and dependency injection

Excluding Controller From Dynamic Routes

Performance and Other Tips

Only use public methods for actions

Use `route:cache` command to increase performance

HTML and JSON responses

Changelog

Contributing

Security

Credits

License

Laravel Package Boilerplate

marcot89 / laravel-bullet

Maintainers

Details

README

Laravel Bullet

Table of Contents

Installation

Basic Usage

Dynamic Routes

Middleware Configuration

Policy Classes

Validations and Requests

Action Hooks

API Resources (Presentation)

Actions in Details

Pagination, Filters and Other Magics

Custom Query Builder for Actions

Custom Actions

Advanced Routes

Custom HTTP Methods

Route params and dependency injection

Excluding Controller From Dynamic Routes

Performance and Other Tips

Only use public methods for actions

Use route:cache command to increase performance

HTML and JSON responses

Changelog

Contributing

Security

Credits

License

Laravel Package Boilerplate

Use `route:cache` command to increase performance