README

A small class factory.

Getting Started

Run the following to add Producer to your project's composer.json. See Packagist for specific versions.

composer require deefour/producer

>=PHP5.5.0 is required.

Overview

A Producer is a class that resolves the FQCN of related Producible classes. The Factory accepts a Producer and "type", and can instantiate a concrete Producible class based on the resolved FQCN returned.

Producers and Producibles

The production factory only accepts classes that implement Deefour\Producer\Contracts\Producer. An exception will be thrown if the resolved class does not implement Deefour\Producer\Contracts\Producible.

Given the following classes

use Deefour\Producer\Contracts\Producer;
use Deefour\Producer\Contracts\Producible;

class Podcast implements Producer
{
    // ...
}

class PodcastPolicy implements Producible
{
    // ...
}

class PodcastScope implements Producible
{
    // ...
}

the production factory can produce an instance of each producible above when given a podcast and "type".

use Deefour\Producer\Factory;

$podcast = new Podcast();
$factory = new Factory();

$factory->resolve($podcast, 'policy'); //=> 'PodcastPolicy`
$factory->resolve($podcast, 'scope'); //=> 'PodcastScope`

$factory->make($podcast, 'policy'); //=> instance of PodcastPolicy

Resolving Producibles

The default producible resolver on the produciton factory looks like this

get_class($producer) . ucfirst($type)

This can be customized by implementing a resolve() method on the producer passed into the factory.

use Deefour\Producer\Contracts\Producer;

class Podcast implements Producer
{
    public function resolve($type)
    {
        // return FQCN string here
    }
}

This deefour/producer package also comes with a more opinionated resolver at Deefour\Producer\ResolvesProducibles.

namespace App;

use Deefour\Producer\ResolvesProducibles;
use Deefour\Producer\Contracts\Producer;

class Podcast implements Producer
{
    use ResolvesProducibles;
}

this will pluralize the "type" passed in and append that to the namespace of the producer doing the class resolution.

use App\Podcast;
use Deefour\Producer\Factory;

$podcast = new Podcast();
$factory = new Factory();

$factory->resolve($podcast, 'policy'); //=> 'App\Policies\PodcastPolicy`

Making Producibles

The default producible instantiator on the production factory looks like this

new $producible($producer);

This can be customized by implementing a make() method on the producer passed into the factory.

use Deefour\Producer\Contracts\Producer;

class Podcast implements Producer
{
    public function make($producible)
    {
        // instantiate the passed $producible (an FQCN)
    }
}

Note: The Deefour\Producer\ResolvesProducibles trait does not implement the make() method.

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/deefour/producer/issues
• Source Code: https://github.com/deefour/producer

Changelog

1.0.0 - October 7, 2015

• Release 1.0.0.

0.1.1 - August 8, 2015

• Added ProductionFactory interface to allow more lenient type-hinting within other packages.
• Docblock cleanup.

0.1.0 - August 4, 2015

• Initial release.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Jason Daly (deefour). Released under the MIT License.