README

A simple way to return well formatted json responses in a Laravel application.

Installation

You can install the package using composer

$ composer require tequilarapido/api-response

Add the service provider

Tequilarapido\ApiResponse\ApiResponseServiceProvider::class 

Usage

This package comes with a helper function api_response(), as sugar syntax to using app(Tequilarapido\ApiResponse\ApiResponse::class)

Return a response from an item (Array / Associative array / Object/)

return api_response()->item(['result`' => 'success'])

Result :

    {
        "data":
        {   
            "result":
            "success"
        }
    }

Return a response from a collection

return api_response()->item(collect(['Apple', 'Orange', 'Kiwi']))

Result :

    {
        "data":
            {   
                "Apple",
                "Orange",
                "Kiwi",
            }
    }

Return a response from a paginated collection

return api_response()->item(collect(['Apple', 'Orange', 'Kiwi']))

Result :

    {
        "data": [1, 2, 3],
        "meta": {
            "pagination": {
                "count": 3,
                "current_page": 1,
                "links": {
                    "next": "/?page=2"
                },
                "per_page": 3,
                "total": 15,
                "total_pages": 5
            }
         }
    }

Transformers

You can use transformers along with item(), collection(), and paginatedCollection methods to transform results before returning the responses.

To learn more about the concept behind transformers, please read the League\Fractal documentation.

Put in a simple way, a Transformer class - must extends League\Fractal\TransformerAbstract - and contains a method transform() that take the raw value/object as an argument and transform it the way we want.

Let's assume that we need to return an api response containing a collection of books retreived from database, and we want to format/enhance/restrict results.

class BookTransformer extends TransformerAbstract
{
    public function transform($book)
    {
        return [
            'id' => (int)$book->id,
            'title' => strtoupper($book->title),
            'price' => '$' . $book->price,
            'published_at' => $book->published_at->format('d/m/Y'),
            'url' => 'https://store.books.com/books/' . $book->id
        ];
    }
}

Route::get('/books', function () {

    // ie. Book::all()
   $books = collect([
       (object)['title' => 'An awesome book', 'id' => '1', 'price' => 10, 'published_at' => Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', '2016-10-01')],
       (object)['title' => 'A second awesome book', 'id' => '2', 'price' => 100, 'published_at' => Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', '2016-10-02')],
   ]);

   return api_response()->collection($books, new BookTransformer);
});

Result:

{
    "data": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "price": "$10",
            "published_at": "01/10/2016",
            "title": "AN AWESOME BOOK",
            "url": "https://store.books.com/books/1"
        },
        {
            "id": 2,
            "price": "$100",
            "published_at": "02/10/2016",
            "title": "A SECOND AWESOME BOOK",
            "url": "https://store.books.com/books/2"
        }
    ]
}

Attaching cookies

For item(), collection(), and paginatedCollection methods the returned result is a built Illuminate\Http\Response object.

To be able to attach cookies you need to instruct api_response() methods to not build the response by setting the $built argument to false, attach the cookie and then build the response.

return api_response()
    ->item(['result`' => 'success'], null, null, false)
    ->withCookie(new \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie('name', 'value'))
    ->build();

Attaching headers

For item(), collection(), and paginatedCollection methods the returned result is a built Illuminate\Http\Response object.

To be able to attach headers you need to instruct api_response() methods to not build the response by setting the $built argument to false, attach the header and then build the response.

return api_response()
    ->item(['result`' => 'success'], null, null, false)
    ->withHeader('X-CUSTOM', 'customvalue')
    ->build();

Other useful methods

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Testing

$ composer test

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email :author_email instead of using the issue tracker.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• Nassif Bourguig
• All Contributors

License

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