Helpers

Description

Helpers is a shared utility package for the Laravel Enso ecosystem.

It bundles small reusable services, model traits, request helpers, casts, enums, contracts, and exceptions that are consumed by many backend packages. The package is intentionally broad: instead of modelling one business feature, it centralizes low-level building blocks that would otherwise be duplicated across the ecosystem.

Typical use cases include precise decimal arithmetic, monetary calculations, JSON parsing, factory resolution in package models, request key normalization, active-state handling, seeder progress reporting, and a few convenience enums and casts.

Installation

This package is usually installed transitively by other Enso backend packages.

For standalone installation:

composer require laravel-enso/helpers

No publishing step is required.

Features

Provides decimal-safe arithmetic helpers built on BCMath.
Includes utility services for JSON reading, object wrapping, disk-size formatting, loan rates, pricing, chunk sizing, and factory resolution.
Provides Eloquent and request traits for active state, request-key normalization, morph-map handling, observer cascading, and touch propagation.
Provides a relation-load guard trait for resources and serializers that must fail fast when expected Eloquent relations were not eager loaded.
Includes casts for encrypted strings and JSON-backed object payloads.
Ships helper enums for VAT rates and payment methods.
Provides ecosystem-level helper exceptions and a JSON-friendly EnsoException.
Exposes an Activatable contract used by packages that model is_active semantics.

Usage

Use Decimals for precise arithmetic:

use LaravelEnso\Helpers\Services\Decimals;

$gross = Decimals::add('100.25', '19.75');
$vat = Decimals::mul('100', '0.19', 4);

Use JsonReader to load JSON in different formats:

use LaravelEnso\Helpers\Services\JsonReader;

$data = (new JsonReader($path))->array();
$obj = (new JsonReader($path))->obj();

Use PriceComputor for pricing totals:

use LaravelEnso\Helpers\Services\PriceComputor;

$total = (new PriceComputor('100'))
    ->quantity('2')
    ->discountPercent('10')
    ->vatPercent('19')
    ->total();

Normalize request keys before validation with ToSnakeCase:

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
use LaravelEnso\Helpers\Traits\ToSnakeCase;

class StoreCompany extends FormRequest
{
    use ToSnakeCase;
}

ToSnakeCase rewrites nested array keys recursively, so frontend payloads may use camelCase while backend validation rules remain snake_case.

Guard required Eloquent relations before serializing relation-dependent payloads:

use Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\JsonResource;
use LaravelEnso\Helpers\Traits\GuardRelationLoad;

class Project extends JsonResource
{
    use GuardRelationLoad;

    public function toArray($request): array
    {
        $flow = $this->guardRelationLoad($this->resource, 'flow');

        return [
            'flow' => $flow->name,
        ];
    }
}

The guard returns the loaded relation, so resources can use it directly after the load check.

Use Laravel's native validated input API to exclude validated fields:

$attributes = $request->safe()->except('roles');

Deprecated Traits

The following traits are kept for backwards compatibility only and should not be used in new code:

FiltersRequest; use $request->safe()->except(...).
MapsRequestKeys; use ToSnakeCase.
InCents; use explicit model casts, accessors, and mutators for monetary values.

API

Services

Core helpers:

Decimals
JsonReader
Obj
FactoryResolver
OptimalChunk
DiskSize

Financial helpers:

PriceComputor
Loan

Utility placeholder:

Dummy

Traits

Model traits:

ActiveState
AvoidsDeletionConflicts
CascadesMorphMap
CascadesObservers
ForceableIndex
GuardRelationLoad
InCents (deprecated)
UpdatesOnTouch

Request / validation traits:

FiltersRequest (deprecated)
MapsRequestKeys (deprecated)
ToSnakeCase
TransformMorphMap

Seeder traits:

SeederProgress
DatabaseSeedProgress

Casts

LaravelEnso\Helpers\Casts\Encrypt
LaravelEnso\Helpers\Casts\Obj

Enums

LaravelEnso\Helpers\Enums\PaymentMethods
LaravelEnso\Helpers\Enums\VatRates

Contracts

LaravelEnso\Helpers\Contracts\Activatable

Exceptions

LaravelEnso\Helpers\Exceptions\EnsoException
LaravelEnso\Helpers\Exceptions\InCents
LaravelEnso\Helpers\Exceptions\JsonParse

Depends On

Required Enso packages:

laravel-enso/enums ↗

Framework and runtime dependencies:

Contributions

are welcome. Pull requests are great, but issues are good too.

Thank you to all the people who already contributed to Enso!