README

Hydrator

"A library for seamless hydration of objects to arrays - and back again, optimized for developer experience and performance."

Features

• Extract objects to arrays and hydrate them back, without calling the constructor
• Works with final, readonly classes, property promotion and deeply nested structures
• Automatic normalizer resolution for enums, date types, collections, array shapes and objects
• Rename or exclude fields with attributes
• Lazy hydration of objects with PHP 8.4 lazy proxies
• Pluggable guessers and extensions to customize the process
• Safe usage of Personal Data with crypto-shredding
• Metadata caching with any PSR-6 or PSR-16 cache
• Developer experience oriented and fully typed
• and much more...

Installation

composer require patchlevel/hydrator

Documentation

• Latest Docs
• Related Blog

Integration

• Event Sourcing

Contributing

We are open to contributions as long as they are in line with our BC-Policy.

Also note that the composer.lock is always generated with the newest supported PHP version as this is the version our tools run in the CI.