ifcastle/type-definitions

Library for defining data types at the business logic layer. Data hydration and serialization based on type definitions.

v0.5.20 2024-11-15 18:11 UTC

Requires

• ifcastle/exceptions: ^5.2

Requires (Dev)

• ifcastle/codestyle: ^0.1.7
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.2

MIT

• data
• serialization
• validation
• types
• compilation
• definitions
• hydration

README

A metadata library for describing the types of procedures, services, and objects.

Why is this needed?

Information about data types and method prototypes can be used for code generation, forming DataTransferObjects, and remote calls. This library provides an independent infrastructure for forming metadata about data types that is not tied to a specific implementation.

Features

• Classes for describing data types
• Forming metadata through PHP Reflection and attributes.
• Serialization and deserialization of data into a JSON-like structure (JSON-array).
• ValueContainer pattern: a container for storing values with a type descriptor.
• A PHP code generator for serialization, validation, and deserialization for better performance.

Installation

composer require ifcastle/type-definitions

Example

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

// TODO: Add example