README

This library will provide you with rails like respond_to functionality. This feature allows a controller action to return different responses according to the request Accept header (the format).

Installation

composer require phl/laravel-respond-to

Usage

You may use the respond to functionality in any of your controller action by using the PHL\LaravelRespondTo\Respond class.

<?php

use PHL\LaravelRespondTo\Respond;

class MyController
{
    public function index()
    {
        return Respond::to('html')->withView('hello', ['name' => 'John Doe'])
            ->to('json')->with(['key' => 'value'])
            ->to('txt')->with('some text')
            ->to('xml')->with(function () {})
            ->to('rss')->with(new \Illuminate\Http\Response())
            ->to('css')->with(new ResponsableClass);
    }
}

This controller is now able to respond to different formats with different responses.

Each call to the to function must be followed by a with or withView call.

Default format

If the current request asks for a response format that is not supported the default one will be returned.

The default format is html you may change that using the default function.

use PHL\LaravelRespondTo\Respond;

Respond::withNewRespond()
    ->to('json')->with(['key' => 'value'])
    ->default('json');

If no response has been set for the default format an exception will get thrown when the controller will try to resolve the response

Supported formats

Under the hood this library relies on the Symfony Request mime types list. This list is initially set with these formats:

$formats = [
    'html' => ['text/html', 'application/xhtml+xml'],
    'txt' => ['text/plain'],
    'js' => ['application/javascript', 'application/x-javascript', 'text/javascript'],
    'css' => ['text/css'],
    'json' => ['application/json', 'application/x-json'],
    'jsonld' => ['application/ld+json'],
    'xml' => ['text/xml', 'application/xml', 'application/x-xml'],
    'rdf' => ['application/rdf+xml'],
    'atom' => ['application/atom+xml'],
    'rss' => ['application/rss+xml'],
    'form' => ['application/x-www-form-urlencoded'],
];

You may add new formats to this list like so:

request()->setFormat('csv', 'text/csv');

Writing the first to on a new line.

If like me you'd prefer to have each call to the to function on its own line I've added a bit of syntactic sugar with the withNewRespond function.

use PHL\LaravelRespondTo\Respond;

Respond::withNewRespond()
    ->to('html')->with('some html')
    ->to('json')->with(['key' => 'value'])
    ->to('xml')->withView('welcome_xml');

Contributing and help

If you have any questions about how to use this library feel free to open an issue :)

If you think that the documentation or the code could be improved open a PR and I'll happily review it!