Api Responses

This package is a response helper classes for laravel api developers to use with transformers the package we use for transformers is spatie/laravel-fractal you will find some helper classes in this package for all rest api end points but the try value is in the Index response.

• Index Response

• Show Response

• Updated Response

• Deleted Response

• Created Response

Installation

composer require mahmoud-birdsol/api-responses

Config Paginator adapter can be configured, as well as the paginate request key.

 php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Alacrity\Responses\Providers\ResponseServiceProvider"

/**
 * Pagination config variables.
 */
'pagination_adapter' 	 	  => \League\Fractal\Pagination\IlluminatePaginatorAdapter::class,
'pagination_request_key' 	  => 'paginate',

Usage

Index Response

To return an index response from your controller you can just return a new instance of the class and pass through an eloquent model query builder and transformer. It's specifically designed that way so you can add any default queries you need to run on the model for example an authorization restriction scope that needs to exist on the model query level or a multi-tenant application in the same db you would filter the class from the backend.

return new IndexResponse(User::query(), new UserTransformer());

Front end usage You can use request params to manipulate this response through some ready made functions.

• Pagination you can send a paginate=10 to get a paginated response from the api.
• Filters you can use eloquent scopes to filter for example filter by user id and you have a scope method on your model public function scopeUser($query, $userId) you can easily use this from your frontend by sending a request with user={id}.
• Sorting You can sort response data also from your frontend by just passing through latest=true or sortAsc=email or sortDesc=id and just sort using any attribute you would like to use.

Show Response

A show response is just a simple class that will transform your data using fractal and return it to the user.

return new ShowResponse($model, new ModelTransformer());

Updated Response

The updated response is very similar to the show response except that will refresh the updated model behind the scene so you can do something like this in your controller method easily.

public function update($request, User $user)
{
    $user->update($request->all());
    
    return new UpdatedResponse($user, new UserTransformer());
}

License

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