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A domain payload implementation for Laravel/PHP

Disclaimer

The packages under the PerfectOblivion namespace exist to provide some basic functionality that I prefer not to replicate from scratch in every project. Nothing groundbreaking here.

The payload package provides a simple domain payload object that can encapsulate a result from a controller, service class, etc., so that it can be easily passed to a response.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require perfect-oblivion/payload

Laravel versions > 5.6.0 will automatically identify and register the service provider. If you have this functionality disabled, add the package service provider to your config/app.php file, in the 'providers' array:

'providers' => [
    //...
    PerfectOblivion\Payload\PayloadServiceProvider::class,
    //...
];

Usage

Currently, the package provides a Payload class and a couple of Laravel ResponseFactory macros to help convert the Payload into either a json response or return a view with the payload data. For users not using Laravel, there are a handful of methods that allow you to retrieve the Payload data easily so that it can be used further.

The provided example below, utilizes a Payload from within a Controller class. The all() method returns the Payload output, messages, and status, as an array, so that each of those parts are easily accessible to be used as needed.

public function index(Request $request)
{
    $users = \App\Models\User::get();

    $payload = Payload::instance()
                    ->setOutput($users)
                    ->setMessages(['success' => 'Operation successful!'])
                    ->setStatus($payload::STATUS_OK);

    return $payload->all();
    // [
    //     'output' => [
    //         [
    //             'id' => 1,
    //             'name' => 'John Doe'
    //         ],
    //         [
    //             'id' => 2,
    //             'name' => 'Jane Doe'
    //         ],
    //         [
    //             'id' => 3,
    //             'name' => 'Sally Johnson'
    //         ]
    //     ],
    //     'messages' => [
    //         'success' => 'Operation successful!'
    //     ],
    //     'status' => 200
    // ]
}

Messages and status are optional. You can use these values in the response you return, however you wish.

Using the all() method, if the provided output can be converted to an array automatically, it will. For instance, in Laravel, you may pass a collection of User models to setOutput(). In this case, the all() method will convert the collection of User objects to an array of arrays. To retrieve the raw original data that was provided to setOutput(), call the getRawOutput() method.

The following methods are available to retrieve information from the Payload object:

    /**
     * Get the status of the payload.
     */
    public function getStatus(): int;

    /**
     * Get messages array from the payload.
     */
    public function getMessages(): array;

    /**
     * Get the Payload output.
     */
    public function getOutput(): array;

    /**
     * Get the raw Payload output.
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function getRawOutput();

    /**
     * Get the wrapped Payload output.
     */
    public function getWrappedOutput(): array;

    /**
     * Get the wrapper for the output.
     */
    public function getOutputWrapper(): string;

    /**
     * Get the wrapper for messages.
     */
    public function getMessagesWrapper(): string;

    /**
     * Return all of the components of the payload in array format.
     */
    public function all(): array;

Response Helpers / Laravel

If you are using Laravel, a couple of ResponseFactory macros are available to you, which makes sending payload responses, easier.

For example:

$payload->setOutput($users, 'users')->setMessages(['success' => 'Operation Successful!']);
response()->jsonWithPayload($payload);

will yield the following structure:

{
    "users": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "name": "Clayton Stone",
            "email": "clay@test.com",
            "email_verified_at": "2019-03-18 20:29:26",
            "created_at": "2019-03-18 20:29:26",
            "updated_at": "2019-03-18 20:29:26"
        },
        {
            "id": 2,
            "name": "John Doe",
            "email": "john15@gmail.com",
            "email_verified_at": "2019-03-23 18:20:11",
            "created_at": "2019-03-23 18:19:41",
            "updated_at": "2019-03-23 18:20:16"
        }
    ],
    "messages": {
        "success": "Operation successful!"
    }
}

Note: When using these helpers, the payload's status code will also be sent with the response.

The other helper is viewWithPayload():

response()->viewWithPayload('dashboard', $payload, 'payload');

The third argument to viewWithPayload() is the string that you will use to refer to the data in your view. By default, 'payload' is used. Using the following:

$payload->setOutput($users, 'users')->setMessages(['success' => 'Operation Successful!']);
return response()->viewWithPayload('dashboard', $payload);

You would access your data as follows:

<h1>{{ $payload->name }}</h1>
<span>{{ $payload->email }}</span>

However, you can set the third parameter in the following manner:

$payload->setOutput($users, 'users')->setMessages(['success' => 'Operation Successful!']);
return response()->viewWithPayload('dashboard', $payload, 'user');

and access your data as follows:

<h1>{{ $user->name }}</h1>
<span>{{ $user->email }}</span>

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email clay@phpstage.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Roadmap

We plan to work on flexibility/configuration soon, as well as release a framework agnostic version of the package.

Credits

License

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

perfect-oblivion / payload

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