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Hydrate serialized objects with defaults and overrides

This is meant to make it easier to take DRY arguments and hydrate them based on preset defaults.

Install

composer require battis/hydratable

Use

This can either be added as a trait to a class or as an invokable class.

use Battis\Hydratable\Hydratable;

class MyObject
{
    use Hydratable;

    private static $DEFAULTS = [
      'foo' => 'bar',
      'argle' => 'bargle'
    ]

    private $options;

    public function __construct(array $params = [])
    {
        $this->options = $this->hydrate($params, self::$DEFAULTS);
    }
}

One could then instantiate an instance of MyObject:

$o = new MyObject(['baz' => 123, 'argle' = 'BaRgLe']);

/*
$o->options = [
    'foo' => 'bar',
    'baz' => 123,
    'argle' => 'BaRgLe'
]
*/

Alternatively, we could simply instantiate Hydrate and use it as a one-off:

$hydrate = new Battis\Hydratable\Hydrate();
$options = $hydrate($params, $defaults);