laravel-jms-serializer

A Library for serializer intergration with Laravel. Useful to serialize doctrine entities or any plain objects in general.

This package injects into your application two service contracts:

• DataNormalizer: converts the data to a php array.
• ResponseSerializer: normalizes the data using DataNormalizer then builds a Illuminate\Http\Response object containting it.

The default implemntation of ResponseSerializer follows the jsend api schema

Installation

composer require motia/laravel-jms-serializer

Register the package service provider by adding it toconfig/app.php

  ...
    Motia\LaravelJMSSerializer\SerializerServiceProvider::class 
  ...

Usage:

• Inside Controllers

  // MyController.php
  ...
   public function hello(\Motia\LaravelJMSSerializer\Contracts\ResponseSerializer $serializer) {
     ...
    return $serializer->success($object);
  }

• The serializer can also indicate errors and failed requests.

    // return a successful response with status 200
    $serializer->success($data = null, $code= 200, $context = null);
    // return a failure response, for example validation
    $serializer->fail($data = null, $code = 422, $context = null);
    // return an error response, for unexpceted errors 
    $serializer->error($message, $data = null, $code = 500, $context = null);
    // return the normalized array of the php objects; equivalent to `DataNormalizer::normalize()`
    $serializer->normalize($object, $context = null);

Data type serializers

The package supports serializing:

• the Laravel pagination object LengthAwarePaginator ['pagination' => ['total' => 5, 'perPage' => 10... ], 'items' => [...] ] The property 'items' can be renamed using the serializer context 'itemsKey' property like that:

$context = SerializationContext::create()->setAttribute('itemsKey', 'subscribers');

The 'items' property of the array can be renamed using

• Ramsey\Uuid\Uuid
• Carbon\Carbon: serialized to a ISO8086 string readable by all browsers.