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Simple data converter to convert different data types like JSON and XML into specified entities.

Installation

You can install it in your application via composer using command below:

composer require habibeh92/converter  

Requirements

• "php": ">=8.0"

How to use

Once it installed, you can convert any type of data easily (currently JSON and XML is supported) into predefined objects. In that case, you need to call handle method of the Converter, which needs an instance of Decoder, to simply convert your data. The handle method receives an instance of entity and the data, which is needed to be converted, and returns an initialized instance.

$entity = new DataEntity();  
$converter = new Converter(new JsonDecoder());  
$entity = $converter->handle($entity, $json_data);  

Defining Entities

The entities, which are going to be filled with the data, should have some predefined properties with specified DataType attribute. The DataType needs two parameters, field and type, which field is required, and it shows the field name in the incoming data. The type parameter should be filled for the array properties, and it shows the entity of each object.

<?php    
 namespace Converter\Tests\Feature\Entities;    
 
 use Converter\Attributes\DataType;    
 
 class Post {    
 
  #[DataType(field: 'title')]    
  public string $title;    
    
  #[DataType(field: 'name')]    
  public string $slug;  
   #[DataType(field: 'content-labels', type: Label::class)]    
  public array $labels;  
  
}  

Custom Decoders

You can create your own custom decvoder (like HTML converter). All the decoders needs to implement Converter\Decoders\Decoder interface. You should implement the handle method in your decoder which accepts the $data parameter and it is needed to decode the data to an array and returns it

<?php    
 namespace Converter\Decoders;   
  
 use Converter\Decoders\Decoder;    
 
 class HtmlDecoder implements Decoder {    
 
	 /**    
	 * @inheritDoc    
	 */    
	public function handle($data): array    
	  {    
	     $array = $this->decodeToArray($data); // convert the data to an array  
	     return $array;  
	 } 
}  

Contribution

Thank you for considering contributing. Please feel free to create pull requests.

Hope you enjoy it.