Installation

composer require kduma/content-negotiable-responses

Content Formats (for ArrayResponse and BasicViewResponse)

Currently supported formats are:

• text/plain (disabled by default, to enable it in your custom class implement TextResponseInterface) - resulting response will be output of built-in PHP function print_r
• application/json - resulting response will be output of built-in PHP function json_encode
• application/yaml - resulting response will be generated using symfony/yaml package
• application/xml - resulting response will be generated using spatie/array-to-xml package
• application/msgpack - resulting response will be generated using rybakit/msgpack package
• text/html (only for BasicViewResponse) - resulting response will be generated using view provided to constructor with passed data array

Usage

Basic Array Usage (for API responses)

Route::get('/test', function () {
    return new \KDuma\ContentNegotiableResponses\ArrayResponse([
        'success' => true,
        'timestamp' => time(),
    ]);
});

As the result, response will be formatted accordingly to acceptable formats passed in Accept HTTP header or as JSON if not specified.

Basic View Usage (for Web and API responses)

Route::get('/', function () {
    return new \KDuma\ContentNegotiableResponses\BasicViewResponse('welcome', [
        'success' => true,
        'timestamp' => time(),
    ]);
});

Customized Usage

namespace App\Http\Responses;

use KDuma\ContentNegotiableResponses\BaseViewResponse;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class UsersListResponse extends BaseViewResponse
{
    public $users;

    public function __construct(Collection $users)
    {
        $this->users = $users;
    }

    protected function generateView(Request $request)
    {
        return $this->view('users.list');
    }
}

Route::get('/users', function () {
    return new \App\Http\Responses\UsersListResponse(\App\User::all());
});

As the result, when opening in web browser, there will be rendered users.list view with passed all public properties to it. In non HTML clients (specyfing other Accept headers) will get serialized public properties (in any supported format), for example:

{
    "users": [
        {
            "name": "user 1",
            "email": "user1@localhost"
        },
        {
            "name": "user 2",
            "email": "user2@localhost"
        },
        {
            "name": "user 3",
            "email": "user3@localhost"
        }
    ]
}

If you want to customize serialized array, you need to override getDataArray method:

/**
 * @return array
 */
protected function getDataArray() {
	return [
		'my_super_users_collection' => $this->users->toArray(),
		'hello' => true
	];
}

Then the result will be:

{
    "my_super_users_collection": [
        {
            "name": "user 1",
            "email": "user1@localhost"
        },
        {
            "name": "user 2",
            "email": "user2@localhost"
        },
        {
            "name": "user 3",
            "email": "user3@localhost"
        }
    ],
    "hello": true
}