scon/laravel

SCON — Schema-Compact Object Notation: Laravel integration with response macros, request parsing, and Facade

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Requires

• php: >=8.1
• illuminate/support: ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
• scon/scon: ^1.0

MIT

• QuijoteShin

• serialization
• laravel
• json-alternative
• dedup
• scon

README

SCON — Schema-Compact Object Notation for Laravel

Laravel integration for SCON. 59-66% payload reduction, 64% fewer LLM tokens, zero config.

Install

composer require scon/laravel

Auto-discovery registers the service provider and facade. No config file needed.

Usage

Facade

use Scon\Laravel\Facades\SCON;

# Encode
$scon = SCON::encode(['name' => 'scon', 'version' => 1]);

# Decode
$data = SCON::decode($sconString);

# Minify / Expand
$mini = SCON::minify($sconString);
$expanded = SCON::expand($mini);

# Structural dedup (59-66% reduction on repetitive data)
$scon = SCON::encode($data, ['autoExtract' => true]);

# Check if Rust extension is loaded
$fast = SCON::isAccelerated(); // true if php-scon ext is available

Response macro

# Return SCON response with Content-Type: text/scon
return response()->scon($data);
return response()->scon($data, 201);
return response()->scon($data, 200, ['X-Custom' => 'header']);

Request macros

# Parse SCON request body
$data = $request->scon();

# Check if request is SCON
if ($request->isScon()) {
    $data = $request->scon();
}

API example

Route::post('/api/config', function (Request $request) {
    if ($request->isScon()) {
        $config = $request->scon();
    } else {
        $config = $request->json()->all();
    }

    return response()->scon([
        'status' => 'saved',
        'entries' => count($config),
    ]);
});

Native acceleration

scon/laravel uses scon/scon which auto-detects the Rust native extension when available. No code changes needed — SCON::encode() and SCON::decode() transparently use the tape decoder for near-parity with json_decode.

# Check acceleration status
php -r "require 'vendor/autoload.php'; echo Scon\Scon::isAccelerated() ? 'native' : 'pure PHP';"

Performance

Payload reduction on OpenAPI 3.1 spec (71 endpoints):

Format	Bytes	Ratio
JSON	90,886	1.00x
SCON	26,347	0.29x
SCON (minified)	20,211	0.22x

LLM token efficiency (cl100k_base): 64% fewer tokens — less context window waste for RAG pipelines, tool-use agents, and structured prompts.

Full methodology: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14733092 Benchmarks, optimization log (21 phases), and industrial protocol fixtures: github.com/QuijoteShin/scon

Also available

• Rust: cargo add scon — crates.io/crates/scon
• JavaScript: npm install scon-notation — npmjs.com/package/scon-notation
• PHP (standalone): composer require scon/scon — packagist.org/packages/scon/scon

License

MIT