RebelCode - WP HTTP Client

A WordPress HTTP client that complies with the PSR-7 HTTP Message and PSR-18 HTTP client standards.

Note: This package was written for use in RebelCode's WordPress products only, as a means to mitigate conflicts with other plugins; most notably, those that use Guzzle. Feel free to use this package, but please be advised that doing so can cause conflicts, which defeats the purpose of this package.

Installation

With Composer:

composer require rebelcode/wp-http

Without Composer:

1. Copy the contents of src into the directory of your choice
2. Use an autoloader to map the RebelCode\WordPress\Http namespace to that directory
3. Consider using Composer instead

Usage

Creating a client instance

use RebelCode\WordPress\Http\WpClient;
use RebelCode\WordPress\Http\WpHandler;
use RebelCode\WordPress\Http\HandlerStack;
use RebelCode\WordPress\Http\Middleware;

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * Default configuration.
 * - Uses the `WpHandler`
 * - Uses the `HttpErrorsToExceptions` middleware
 * - Uses the `PrepareBody` middleware
 */
 
$client = WpClient::createDefault('https://base-url.com/api', [
    'timeout' => 30,
    'redirection' => 3,
]);

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * Custom configuration with middleware:
 * - Create the `WpHandler`
 * - Create a `HandlerStack` with the handler and middleware factories
 * - Create the `WpClient` and pass the stack
 */
 
$wpHandler = new WpHandler([
    'timeout' => 30,
    'redirection' => 3,
]);

$handlerStack = new HandlerStack($wpHandler, [
    Middleware::factory(Middleware\PrepareBody::class)
]);

$client = new WpClient($handlerStack, 'https://base-url.com/api');

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * For a zero-middleware configuration, you can simply pass the base handler
 */

$client = new WpClient($wpHandler, 'https://base-url.com/api');

Sending Requests

The WpClient implements the PSR-18 ClientInterface. Requests are dispatched using sendRequest() method:

use RebelCode\WordPress\Http\WpHandler;
use RebelCode\Psr7\Request;

$client = new WpClient(new WpHandler(), 'https://base-url.com/api');

$request = new Request('GET', '/users');
$response = $client->sendRequest($request);

Architecture

The design and architecture of this package is loosely based on Guzzle.

The WpClient class does not actually use the WordPress HTTP API to send requests. Rather, it delegates the handling of the request to a HandlerInterface instance. The only thing the client is directly responsible for is resolving relative request URIs using a base URI (if one is given to the client during construction).

Handlers are objects that take a RequestInterface instance and return a ResponseInterface instance. The WpHandler, for example, transforms the request into the array of arguments required by the wp_remote_request() function, calls the function, then transforms the returned value into a ResponseInterface instance.

Middleware

Middlewares are a special type of HandlerInterface: they take a RequestInterface and return a ResponseInterface.

The key difference is that middlewares do not actually dispatch the request. Instead, they receive a HandlerInterface instance during construction and delegate to it by calling $this->next($request).

This allows for multiple middlewares to be chained together, such that the first middleware is given the second middleware, which in turn is given the third middleware, and so on. The last middleware is then given the base handler, typically the WpClient instance. This chaining is implemented in the HandlerStack, which is also a HandlerInterface implementation.

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Middleware classes may accept additional constructor arguments, as long as a handler argument is accepted and is passed to the parent constructor.

Example implementation of a middleware

use Psr\Http\Message\RequestInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use RebelCode\WordPress\Http\Middleware;

class MyMiddleware extends Middleware {
    public function __construct(HandlerInterface $handler, $arg1, $arg2) {
        parent::__construct($handler);
        // ...
    }

    /** @inheritDoc*/
    public function handle(RequestInterface $request) : ResponseInterface{
        // Do something with the request
        $newRequest = $request->withHeader('X-Foo', 'Bar');
        
        // Delegate to the next handler
        $response = $this->next($newRequest);
        
        // Do something with the response and return it
        return $response->withHeader('X-Baz', 'Qux');
    }
}

The middleware can then be given to the HandlerStack using a factory function that takes a HandlerInterface instance and returns the middleware instance.

$stack = new HandlerStack($baseHandler, [
    function ($handler) {
        return new MyMiddleware($handler, $arg1, $arg2);
    }
]);

If the first argument of the middleware constructor is the handler, the Middleware::factory() helper function can be utilized to reduce boilerplate code. Additional constructor arguments can be passed as the second argument, in an array.

$stack = new HandlerStack($baseHandler, [
    Middleware::factory(MyMiddleware::class, [$arg1, $arg2]),
]);