andrej-griniuk / cakephp-fractal-transformer-view
CakePHP view builder utilizing Fractal library for entities transformation
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Type:cakephp-plugin
Requires
- php: >=8.1
- cakephp/cakephp: ^5.0
- league/fractal: ^0.20.1
Requires (Dev)
- cakephp/bake: ^3.0
- phpunit/phpunit: ^10
Suggests
- cakephp/bake: Required to generate transformers.
README
FractalTransformerView plugin for CakePHP
This plugin is a thin wrapper for JsonView
that allows using Fractal transformers for your API output. What is Fractal?
Fractal provides a presentation and transformation layer for complex data output, the like found in RESTful APIs, and works really well with JSON. Think of this as a view layer for your JSON/YAML/etc. When building an API it is common for people to just grab stuff from the database and pass it to json_encode(). This might be passable for “trivial” APIs but if they are in use by the public, or used by mobile applications then this will quickly lead to inconsistent output.
Requirements
- CakePHP 5.x (use ~1.0 for CakePHP 3.x, ~2.0 for CakePHP 4.x)
Installation
You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using Composer.
composer require andrej-griniuk/cakephp-fractal-transformer-view
Usage
To enable the plugin set FractalTransformerView.FractalTransformer
class name for viewBuilder. Then you just do what you would normally do in your data views - specify which view vars you want to get serialized by setting serialize
view builder option. E.g.:
namespace App\Controller; class ArticlesController extends AppController { public function initialize(): void { parent::initialize(); $this->loadComponent('RequestHandler'); $this->viewBuilder()->setClassName('FractalTransformerView.FractalTransformer'); } public function index() { // Set the view vars that have to be serialized. $this->set('articles', $this->paginate()); // Specify which view vars JsonView should serialize. $this->viewBuilder()->setOption('serialize', ['articles']); } }
The view will look for transformer class starting with entity name. E.g.:
namespace App\Model\Transformer; use App\Model\Entity\Article; use League\Fractal\TransformerAbstract; class ArticleTransformer extends TransformerAbstract { /** * Creates a response item for each instance * * @param Article $article post entity * @return array transformed post */ public function transform(Article $article) { return [ 'title' => $article->get('title') ]; } }
If transformer class not found the variable is serialized the normal way.
Custom transformer class name can be set by defining transformer
view builder option:
$this->viewBuilder()->setOption('transform', ['articles' => '\App\Model\Transformer\CustomArticleTransformer']);
You can also define if you don't want to use transformer for certain variables:
$this->viewBuilder()->setOption('transform', ['articles' => false]);
You can set a custom serializer (class name or object) via serializer
view builder option:
$this->viewBuilder()->setOption('serializer', new CustomSerializer());
Baking Transformers
To bake transformers you must include the plugin in your src/Application.php file. Add the following to your bootstrap method:
$this->addPlugin('FractalTransformerView');
You must also have the cakephp/bake composer package installed.
You can now run bin/cake bake transformer YOUR_MODEL
to create transformers.
Bugs & Feedback
https://github.com/andrej-griniuk/cakephp-fractal-transformer-view/issues
Credits
Inspired by @josegonzalez Using Fractal to transform entities for custom api endpoints.
License
Copyright (c) 2016, Andrej Griniuk and licensed under The MIT License.