FractalResponse for Laravel

With FractalReponse you can easily use Fractal Transformers to serialize Laravel Reponse objects.

The FractalResponse class inherits from Illuminate\Http\Response. In addition, you pass your Leage\Fractal-transformer to the with()-method, so that your response gets automatically serialized the way you wish. This is especially helpful when writing REST services, where you have to provide a defined data structure.

Installation:

The easiest way is to add FractalResponse as dependency to your composer.json:

require: {
    "jotaen/fractal-response": "1.x"
}

Example:

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use League\Fractal;
use Laravel\Lumen\Routing\Controller as BaseController;

use FractalResponse\FractalResponse as Response;

class Controller extends BaseController
{
    public function showOneBook()
    {
      $book = new Book();
      $response = new Response($book, 200);
      $response->with(new BookTransformer());
      return $response;
    }

    public function showSeveralBooks()
    {
      $books = [ new Book(), new Book() ];
      $response = new Response($books, 200);
      $response->with(new BookTransformer());
      return $response;
    }
}


class Book 
{
  public function title() { return 'Help, i am an elephant!'; }
}

class BookTransformer extends Fractal\TransformerAbstract
{
  public function transform($foo)
  {
      return [
          'Title'      => $foo->title(),
      ];
  }
}