oskarstark/symfony-http-responder

This library provides a Symfony responder class, which can be used to render a template, return json or a file and redirect to route/url.

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github.com/OskarStark/symfony-http-responder

pkg:composer/oskarstark/symfony-http-responder

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1.8.1 2026-02-05 10:04 UTC

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MIT f48d08830187e71a2b2b37c2248558c25c801f80

  • Saif Eddin Gmati <azjezz.woop@protonmail.com>
  • Oskar Stark <oskarstark.woop@googlemail.com>

symfonyjsonfiletwigresponse


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This library provides a Symfony responder class, which can be used to render a template, return json or a file and redirect to route/url.

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This library is designed to be used in controllers which does not extend from AbstractController.

Installation

composer require oskarstark/symfony-http-responder

Usage

Render a Template

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Responder;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

#[Route('/index', name: 'app_index')]
final class IndexController
{
 public function __construct(
 private Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 public function __invoke(): Response
 {
 return $this->responder->render('index.html.twig');
 }
}

Return JSON

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Responder;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

#[Route('/api', name: 'app_api')]
final class ApiController
{
 public function __construct(
 private Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 public function __invoke(): Response
 {
 $data = [
 'foo' => 42,
 ];
 
 return $this->responder->json($data);
 }
}

Return a File

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Responder;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

#[Route('/download', name: 'app_download')]
final class DownloadController
{
 public function __construct(
 private Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 public function __invoke(): Response
 {
 // You can either provide a filepath
 $file = '/app/invoices/invoice.pdf';
 
 // or an SplFileObject
 $file = new \SplFileObject('/app/invoices/invoice.pdf');
 
 return $this->responder->file($file);
 }
}

Redirect to Url

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Responder;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

#[Route('/redirect', name: 'app_redirect')]
final class RedirectController
{
 public function __construct(
 private Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 public function __invoke(): Response
 {
 return $this->responder->redirect('http://google.com');
 }
}

Redirect to Route

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Responder;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

#[Route('/redirect', name: 'app_redirect')]
final class RedirectController
{
 public function __construct(
 private Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 public function __invoke(): Response
 {
 return $this->responder->route('app_my_route');
 }
}

PSR-7 and PSR-15 support

Symfony can respond using PSR-7 Response Interface instances when we are using the symfony/psr-http-message-bridge package, as described in this blog post.

# config/packages/oskarstark_symfony_http_responder.yaml
services:
 # ...
 OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Psr7Responder: null

Render a Template

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Psr7Responder;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
use Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

final class RedirectHandler implements RequestHandlerInterface
{
 public function __construct(
 private Psr7Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 #[Route('/index', name: 'app_index')]
 public function handle(ServerRequestInterface $request): ResponseInterface
 {
 return $this->responder->render('index.html.twig');
 }
}

Return JSON

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Psr7Responder;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
use Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

final class RedirectHandler implements RequestHandlerInterface
{
 public function __construct(
 private Psr7Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 #[Route('/api', name: 'app_api')]
 public function handle(ServerRequestInterface $request): ResponseInterface
 {
 return $this->responder->json($data);
 }
}

Return a File

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Psr7Responder;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
use Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

final class RedirectHandler implements RequestHandlerInterface
{
 public function __construct(
 private Psr7Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 #[Route('/download', name: 'app_download')]
 public function handle(ServerRequestInterface $request): ResponseInterface
 {
 // You can either provide a filepath
 $file = '/app/invoices/invoice.pdf';
 
 // or an SplFileObject
 $file = new \SplFileObject('/app/invoices/invoice.pdf');
 
 return $this->responder->file($file);
 }
}

Redirect to Url

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Psr7Responder;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
use Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

final class RedirectHandler implements RequestHandlerInterface
{
 public function __construct(
 private Psr7Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 #[Route('/redirect', name: 'app_redirect')]
 public function handle(ServerRequestInterface $request): ResponseInterface
 {
 return $this->responder->redirect('http://google.com');
 }
}

Redirect to Route

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use OskarStark\Symfony\Http\Psr7Responder;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
use Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

final class RedirectHandler implements RequestHandlerInterface
{
 public function __construct(
 private Psr7Responder $responder,
 ) {
 }

 #[Route('/redirect', name: 'app_redirect')]
 public function handle(ServerRequestInterface $request): ResponseInterface
 {
 return $this->responder->route('app_my_route');
 }
}