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The missing XML support for Laravel's Response class.

This package is designed to work with the Laravel framework.

Installation

Install via composer:

composer require mtownsend/response-xml

Registering the service provider

For Laravel 5.4 and lower, add the following line to your config/app.php:

/*
 * Package Service Providers...
 */
Mtownsend\ResponseXml\Providers\ResponseXmlServiceProvider::class,

For Laravel 5.5 and greater, the package will auto register the provider for you.

Using Lumen

To register the service provider, add the following line to app/bootstrap/app.php:

$app->register(Mtownsend\ResponseXml\Providers\ResponseXmlServiceProvider::class);

Quick start

Respond with xml

$data = [
    'status' => 'success',
    'data' => [
        'first_name' => 'John',
        'last_name' => 'Smith',
    ]
];
return response()->xml($data);

// Returns:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<response>
    <status>success</status>
    <data>
        <first_name>John</first_name>
        <last_name>Smith</last_name>
    </data>
</response>

Respond with xml from a collection or eloquent query

You may also pass a collection to be transformed into xml.

return response()->xml(User::all());

Respond with existing xml

If you already have xml, you can pass it to the xml method to respond.

$xml = <<<XML
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<response>
    <status>success</status>
    <data>
        <first_name>John</first_name>
        <last_name>Smith</last_name>
    </data>
</response>
XML;
return response()->xml($xml);

Respond with the request's preferred format (xml/json)

If you want to respond with either xml or json on the fly without writing if/else statements you may use the ->preferredFormat() method. This will take the request's Accept header and try to determine which format the request wants to be served. If this header is nonexistent, it will default to json. Note: when using this method, it will automatically set your response's Content-Type header to match the request's Accept header.

$data = [
    'status' => 'success',
    'data' => [
        'first_name' => 'John',
        'last_name' => 'Smith',
    ]
];
return response()->preferredFormat($data);

Methods and arguments

Response method

->xml($xml, $status = 200, array $headers = [], $xmlRoot = 'response', $encoding = null)

The $xml argument is the data you want to be transformed into xml (may also be a premade xml string).

$status is the http code your response will send.

$headers is an array of key/values of http headers your response will return. A default header of Content-Type: application/xml is automatically applied, but can be overwritten.

$xmlRoot will change the root xml element. Default is response.

$encoding is a string of xml charset encoding declaration. Default is null.

Response method

->preferredFormat($data, $status = 200, array $headers = [], $xmlRoot = 'response', $encoding = null)

See ->xml() method arguments.

The only difference between this method and ->xml() is $data can potentially be transformed to json and $xmlRoot will be ignored if the response is json.

Purpose

Have you ever found yourself wishing Laravel offered the same exemplary support for returning XML responses as it does for JSON? Imagine you are creating an api platform and want to be inclusive of other apps that would prefer to make XML requests to your application - sometimes the reasons are more than preferential. Wouldn't it be a dream if you could return XML as simply as writing return response()->xml($data); and it just worked? Now you can!

This package achieves one critical goal: respond with XML as easily as you can with JSON in your Laravel application.

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Credits

Mark Townsend
Spatie
All Contributors

Testing

You can run the tests with:

./vendor/bin/phpunit

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

mtownsend / response-xml

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