README

A simple fractal service provider and transformer generator for laravel 5 and lumen

^{welcome to my first laravel package, lets rock.}

New: Since version 1.2 auto class aliase has been removed.

Require this package with composer using the following command:

composer require cyvelnet/laravel5-fractal

Laravel 5

After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php for laravel>=5

Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Laravel5FractalServiceProvider::class,

and register Facade

'Fractal' => Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Facades\Fractal::class

Lumen

register service provider in /bootstrap/app.php for lumen

$app->register(Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Laravel5FractalServiceProvider::class);

and uncomment the line

$app->withFacades();

and finally register Facade with

class_alias(Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Facades\Fractal::class, 'Fractal');

Now you can start using this package with the following simple command

$user = User::find(1);

return Fractal::item($user, new UserTransformer)->responseJson(200);

OR

$users = User::get(); // $users = User::paginate();

return Fractal::collection($users, new UserTransformer)->responseJson(200);

You will automatically gain some extra attributes when you passing a laravel's paginator object.

In case you would like to get only the transformed array, you may do

Fractal::collection($user, new UserTransformer)->getArray();

You may now generate transformer classes in artisan

php artisan make:transformer

in this case we are going to use artisan make:transformer UserTransformer, transformer file will automatically created in App\Transfomers\ directory

now you may open your generated transformer file and start formatting your data as you like

public function transform($user)
{
    return [
           'id' => $user->user_id,
           'name' => "{$user->user_firstname} {$user->user_lastname}",
           ...
           ];
}

You can also publish the config-file to change implementations to suits you.

php artisan vendor:publish

For the reason, number of changes to port to Lumen are very minimal, new branch will be added for future breaking changes between laravel 5 and lumen.

TO DO

• add functionality to artisan command to generate sub transformer and includes function boilerplate