softcomtecnologia / fractal
Handle the output of complex data structures ready for API output.
Requires
- php: >=7.1
Requires (Dev)
- doctrine/orm: ^2.7
- illuminate/contracts: ^7.0
- mockery/mockery: ~0.9
- pagerfanta/pagerfanta: ~1.0.0
- phpunit/phpunit: ^4.8.35 || ^7.5
- squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ~1.5|~2.0|~3.4
- zendframework/zend-paginator: ~2.3
Suggests
- illuminate/pagination: The Illuminate Pagination component.
- pagerfanta/pagerfanta: Pagerfanta Paginator
- zendframework/zend-paginator: Zend Framework Paginator
- 1.0.x-dev
- v1.0.2
- v1.0.1
- v1.0.0
- dev-master / 0.20.x-dev
- 0.19.2
- 0.19.1
- 0.19
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- 0.9.1
- 0.9.0
- 0.8.3
- 0.8.2
- 0.8.1
- 0.8.0
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- 0.6.1
- 0.6.0
- 0.5.1
- 0.5.0
- 0.4.6
- 0.4.5
- 0.4.4
- 0.4.3
- 0.4.2
- 0.4.0
- 0.3.1
- 0.3.0
- 0.2.1
- 0.2.0
- 0.1.0
- 0.0.1
- dev-hotfix/tests-for-minimum-versions
- dev-fix/update-travis
- dev-maintainers-in-readme
- dev-feature/scope-reduction
- dev-feature/phpcs-circleci
- dev-next-changelog
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Last update: 2024-11-09 19:51:18 UTC
README
Fractal provides a presentation and transformation layer for complex data output, the like found in RESTful APIs, and works really well with JSON. Think of this as a view layer for your JSON/YAML/etc.
When building an API it is common for people to just grab stuff from the database and pass it
to json_encode(). This might be passable for "trivial" APIs but if they are in use by the public,
or used by mobile applications then this will quickly lead to inconsistent output.
Goals
- Create a protective shield between source data and output, so schema changes do not affect users
- Systematic type-casting of data, to avoid
foreach()ing through and(bool)ing everything - Include (a.k.a embedding, nesting or side-loading) relationships for complex data structures
- Work with standards like HAL and JSON-API but also allow custom serialization
- Support the pagination of data results, for small and large data sets alike
- Generally ease the subtle complexities of outputting data in a non-trivial API
This package is compliant with PSR-1, PSR-2 and PSR-4. If you notice compliance oversights, please send a patch via pull request.
Install
Via Composer
$ composer require league/fractal
Requirements
The following versions of PHP are supported by this version.
- PHP 5.4
- PHP 5.5
- PHP 5.6
- PHP 7.0
- PHP 7.1
- PHP 7.2
- HHVM
Documentation
Fractal has full documentation, powered by Jekyll.
Contribute to this documentation in the gh-pages branch.
Todo
- add HAL serializers
Testing
$ phpunit
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING and CONDUCT for details.
Maintainers
Credits
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.