README

What problem does this package solve?

This package provides a simple and elegant way to handle RESTful responses in Laravel applications. It allows you to define your data fetching logic and error handling in a clean and concise manner, reducing boilerplate code and improving readability. Restful for Laravel also supports exception handling: it consolidates errors into a single common form.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher

Installation

You can install the package via Composer:

composer require 021/restful-for-laravel

Response Structure

Success

You can pass to data any value that can be passed to response()->json()

Error

{
 "errors": [
 {
 "code": "Error:Generic",
 "message": "Error message",
 /* optional */
 "meta": {
 /* any additional data here */
 }
 }
 /* more errors can be here */
 ]
}

Usage

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Repositories\FooRepository;
use App\Enums\Errors\BarError;
use O21\RestfulForLaravel\Contracts\EnumError;
use Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse;

enum BarError implements EnumError
{
 case FailedToFetchBars;

 public function message(): string
 {
 return match ($this) {
 self::FailedToFetchBars => 'Failed to fetch bars from external resource.',
 };
 }
}

class FooBarController extends Controller
{
 public function bar(): JsonResponse
 {
 return restful(
 data: fn (FooRepository $repo) => $repo->fetchBarsFromExternalResource(),
 fallback: fn (callable $toErrors) => $toErrors(
 errors: [
 Bar::FailedToFetchBars,
 ],
 status: 503,
 ),
 );
 }
}

Just to compare, without this package, your bar() method would look like this:

public function bar(FooRepository $repo): JsonResponse
{
 try {
 return response()->json($repo->fetchBarsFromExternalResource());
 } catch (\Exception $e) {
 report($e);
 
 return response()->json([
 'errors' => [
 [
 'code' => 'failed_to_fetch_bars',
 'message' => 'Failed to fetch bars from external resource.',
 ],
 ],
 ], 503);
 }
}

More examples can be found in the examples directory.

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