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Componenta Filter

Composable predicates and iterable collection filters for PHP 8.4+.

Installation

Requirements

• PHP 8.4+
• componenta/arrayable
• componenta/iterator

Contracts

Version 2 separates single-value predicates from collection operations.

• PredicateInterface exposes only accept() and is used when one value can be evaluated without collection context.
• CollectionFilterInterface exposes collection processing through getIterator(), withIterable(), and toArray().
• FilterInterface extends both interfaces and represents a predicate-backed collection filter.
• AbstractCollectionFilter provides immutable iterable binding and toArray() for collection-only operators.
• AbstractFilter extends AbstractCollectionFilter and adds predicate-backed iteration.

Predicate-backed Filters

String-oriented predicates accept only string and Stringable values. Scalars such as integers and booleans are not silently cast to strings.

Pure Predicates and Composition

Custom predicates do not need iterable behavior:

Filterable, ChainableFilter, OneOfFilter, NotFilter, and RecursiveFilter depend on PredicateInterface. Filterable/ChainableFilter use AND semantics; OneOfFilter uses OR semantics and an empty OneOfFilter rejects every value.

Collection-only Operators

The following operators intentionally do not implement PredicateInterface:

• PercentageFilter: the result depends on collection size and position.
• UniqueFilter: uniqueness depends on values already observed in the current traversal.
• MergingFilter: concatenates results from multiple CollectionFilterInterface instances.

MergingFilter::withIterable() uses ReplayableIterator to fan out one-shot sources lazily. Binding a generator does not consume it immediately, and each inner filter gets an independent replay cursor.

Exact Numeric Predicates

NumericFilter, BetweenFilter, RangeFilter, GreaterThan*, LessThan*, MultipleOfFilter, and the parity filters do not collapse numeric strings to float unnecessarily.

Large integers, long decimal strings, and scientific notation can therefore be compared without the 2^53 precision loss of IEEE-754 conversion. NAN and infinite values are rejected by value-oriented numeric predicates. Actual PHP float inputs keep their native floating-point precision; MultipleOfFilter uses a bounded tolerance only when the tested value itself is a float.

Date Ranges

DateRangeFilter accepts DateTimeInterface or absolute ISO-like date strings. It captures a timezone at construction for local strings, preserves microsecond precision, and does not accept relative expressions such as tomorrow or silently normalized impossible dates.

Recursive Filtering

RecursiveFilter detects iterable-object cycles and also enforces maxDepth (default 64) so recursive arrays cannot recurse indefinitely.

Random Filtering

RandomFilter uses an isolated Random\Randomizer instead of the process-global mt_rand() state. Inject a Randomizer when deterministic seeded behavior is needed.

Validation

Invalid configuration is rejected early with InvalidArgumentException where safe execution would otherwise be impossible. This includes invalid numeric/date ranges, regular expressions, filter_var() IDs/options, probabilities, percentages, and typed class/string/key lists.

Breaking Changes from 1.x

• FilterInterface is now the intersection of PredicateInterface and CollectionFilterInterface.
• PercentageFilter, UniqueFilter, and MergingFilter are collection-only and have no accept() method.
• Predicate composition APIs accept PredicateInterface; custom predicates no longer need iterable methods.
• MergingFilter accepts arbitrary CollectionFilterInterface implementations and replays one-shot inputs lazily.
• String predicates no longer cast arbitrary scalars to strings.
• Numeric range thresholds support int|float|string and exact decimal/scientific comparison.
• DateRangeFilter uses absolute deterministic parsing, a captured timezone, and microsecond precision.
• RandomFilter no longer consumes global mt_rand() state.
• RecursiveFilter has bounded recursion and cycle detection.

Development

CI validates Composer metadata, lints all PHP sources and tests, and runs Pest on PHP 8.4 and 8.5. A manual mutation-audit workflow is available for checking test sensitivity.