laravel5-fractal

A simple fractal service provider and transformer generator for laravel 5 and lumen

• Installation
• Config
• Command
• Usage
• Trait (Optional feature since >= 2.1.3)
• Extra Extra

Installation

Laravel

Require this package with composer using the following command:

composer require cyvelnet/laravel5-fractal

After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Laravel5FractalServiceProvider::class,

and register Facade And optionally add a new line to the aliases array:

'Fractal' => Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Facades\Fractal::class

Lumen

register service provider in /bootstrap/app.php for lumen

$app->register(Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Laravel5FractalServiceProvider::class);

and uncomment the line

$app->withFacades();

and finally register Facade with

class_alias(Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Facades\Fractal::class, 'Fractal');

Config

You can also publish the config file to change implementations to suits you.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Laravel5FractalServiceProvider"

Automatic sub resources injection.

Auto inject/embed sub resources are disabled by default, to enable this feature, edit config/fractal.php and set

autoload => true

Command

cyvelnet/fractal come with a helpful commandline to assist your api transformation, just type and your Eloquent model attributes will be added to your transform array automatically

 // generate a empty transformer
 php artisan make:transformer UserTransformer
 
 // generate a modeled transformer
 php artisan make:transformer UserTransformer -m User

Usage

Fractal::item();

Transform a single record

$user = User::find(1);

Fractal::item($user, new UserTransformer());

Fractal::collection();

Transform a collection of records

$users = User::where('activated', true)->get();

// $resourceKey is optional for most serializer, but recommended to set for JsonApiSerializer
$resourceKey = 'user';

Fractal::collection($users, new UserTransformer(), $resourceKey);

Fractal::includes()

Inject sub resources

Fractal::includes('orders')  // where 'orders' is defined in your transformer class's $availableIncludes array

Fractal::excludes()

Remove sub resources

Fractal::excludes('orders')

Fractal::setSerializer()

Change transformer serializer

Fractal::setSerializer(\Acme\MySerializer); // where MySerializer is a class extends \League\Fractal\Serializer\SerializerAbstract 

Fractal::fieldsets()

add sparse fieldset

Fractal::fieldsets(['orders' => 'item,qty,total,date_order'])

Fractal::addMeta()

add extra meta data to root

// specify with single meta data
Fractal::addMeta($key = 'metaKey', $data = 'metaData')

// add an array of meta data
Fractal::addMeta([
    'key1' => 'data1',
    'key2' => 'data2'
    ])

Trait

https://github.com/Cyvelnet/laravel5-fractal/wiki/Transformable-Trait

Extra

https://github.com/Cyvelnet/laravel5-fractal/wiki/Custom-TransformerableAbstract-class