Simple Delegator

Why?

You can watch Jeffrey Way's video from Laracon US 2017 with usage example: https://streamacon.com/video/laracon-us-2017/day-2-jeffrey-way (35:00)

Examples

Suppose, we want to create Presenter for our User model:

class User extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
    ];
}

class UserPresenter
{
    use SimpleDelegator;
    
    protected $user;
    
    public function __construct($user)
    {
        $this->user = $user;
    }
    
    protected function delegatee()
    {
        return $this->user;
    }
    
    public function formattedName()
    {
        return 'Decorated ' . $this->user->name;
    }
}

$decoratedUser = new UserPresenter($user);

$decoratedUser->formattedName() // call to decorator method
$decoratedUser->name // gets original name from User model

Or, we want to add some additional behavior to our class (as in Jeffrey's example):

class NotifyingThread
{
    protected $thread;
    
    public function __construct($thread)
    {
        $this->thread = $thread;
    }
    
    public function addReply()
    {
        $reply = $this->thread->addReply();
        
        Notification::send(
            $reply->mentionedUsers(),
            new YouWereMentioned($reply)
        );
    }
}

$thread = new NotifyingThread($thread);

$thread->addReply($data); // default logic + sending notification

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require n7olkachev/php-simple-delegator

Next, add SimpleDelegator trait to your Decorator class:

use SimpleDelegator;

Testing

$ composer test

Credits

• Nikita Tolkachev

Sponsored by

https://websecret.by/

Web agency based in Minsk, Belarus

License

The MIT License (MIT)