Foundation

What is this?

This is the base that I like to use for constructing API's with Laravel.

It is essentially a wrapper for Spatie's laravel-fractal.

Installation

1. composer require jamosaur/foundation
2. Update your API controllers to extend Jamosaur\Foundation\ApiController. This extends the default Laravel controller but also adds more methods that we will use.
3. Update your API middleware in app\Http\Kernel.php to use Jamosaur\Foundation\Middleware\ApiRequestMiddleware

Example Usage

Controller

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse;
use Jamosaur\Foundation\ApiController;

class UserController extends ApiController
{
    public function index(): JsonResponse
    {
        $users = User::all();
        
        // By default, this will attempt to transform the data with
        // `\App\Transformers\UserTransformer`. The package takes replaces
        // the `Controller` in the controller name with Transformer
        // and attempts to load it from the `\App\Transformers\ namespace.
        return $this->transformCollection('users', $users)
            ->respond();
    }
    
    public function differentNamespace(): JsonResponse
    {
        $users = User::all();
        
        // You can define a different namespace for transformers.
        return $this->setTransformerNamespace('\\App\\Domain\\Transformers')
            ->transformCollection('users', $users)
            ->respond();
    }
    
    public function chainingTransformers(): JsonResponse
    {
        $user = User::all();
        $posts = Post::all();
        $photo = Photo::query()->first();
        
        // You can also chain methods to transform multiple
        // sets of data.
        return $this->setTransformer(new UserTransformer())
            ->transformCollection('users', $users)
            ->setTransformer(new PostTransformer())
            ->transformCollection('posts', $posts)
            ->setTransformer(new PhotoTransformer())
            ->transformItem('photo', $photo)
            ->respond();
    }
    
    public function definedTransformer(): JsonResponse
    {
        $users = User::query()->with('profile')->get();
        
        // You can override which transformer is used, and also pass in
        // any includes.
        return $this->setTransformer(new CustomTransformer(), ['profile'])
            ->transformCollection('users', $users)
            ->respond();
    }
}

Important Notes

• Transformers MUST implement Jamosaur\Foundation\Contracts\TransformerContract and extend League\Fractal\TransformerAbstract