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MappingBundle

Symfony bundle to automap an object into another object easily.

It was mainly built in order to avoid passing full entities to symfony forms when you want to edit them. But you can use it in many ways.

It was designed to be as easy as possible, all the mapping is located into a single object that is "aware" of the target class and properties destinations. There is no configuration outside of the main object.

The main service have two methods :

• mapToTarget : This method will map the mapped Aware object to a target object. The target object can be another simple object or an entity. e.g : You have a form with a data_class that is an object that will represent some properties of an entity, for a User for example.

• mapFromTarget : this method will do the opposite. It will take an object (or an entity that is tagged as the target) and map properties into the mapped Aware object.

Installation

Make sure Composer is installed globally, as explained in the installation chapter of the Composer documentation.

Applications that use Symfony Flex

Open a command console, enter your project directory and execute:

Applications that don't use Symfony Flex

Step 1: Download the Bundle

Open a command console, enter your project directory and execute the following command to download the latest stable version of this bundle:

Step 2: Enable the Bundle

Then, enable the bundle by adding it to the list of registered bundles in the config/bundles.php file of your project:

Usage

In order to use this bundle, you will need to mark an object (basically a DTO) with the attribute Ehyiah\MappingBundle\Attributes\MappingAware

And in the same class, simply tag every properties you want to map to the target object with the same attribute. If the properties in the target class and the mapped DTO have the same name, there is nothing else to do (see property example). If the properties have a different name, you can use the option to specify the name in the target class.

As the mapping logic is using the propertyAccess component, you can specify nested properties in the target class. see and properties in the example below.

If you want to ignore null values when mapping from an object to the other, juste use the ignoreNullValue option on each properties you need to.

Simple Usage

1 - Create a DTO that will 'hold' the mapping logic

2 - Inject the into your code, and call the methods.

If you call function of the service tagged with in a controller, handler or wherever you need it, the service will take properties tagged with MappingAware attribute and will put the values stored in the DTO into the properties in the entity and flush them (default value).

Advanced usage

Replace the Built-in service

A Default service implementing exist in the bundle. But you may need to create a service that implements the to replace the default built-in.

Create your own service

To create your own service :

• Just create a service that implements the , there is nothing more to do, no need to register or override the default built-in. The compiler pass do the work for you.
• In this service you will handle the logic yourself.
• Of course you can take the basis methods of the default service and modify them to your needs inside your custom service.

Transformers

Sometimes you need to modify data between the objects.

Example : in your SourceObject you have a string and need a Datetime in the TargetObject. Or the opposite

Well there is a simple way to do this via Transformers. You can easily create them or use some of prebuilt. To create them just create a class and implements

Transformers will have 2 methods and . and you can pass an array of options that will be used in both.

method is used in mapToTarget

method is used in mapFromTarget

In each method you have access ot the SourceObject and the TargetObject.

Going Further with Transformers

Transformers can be "open-minded" or "narrow-minded". For a better understanding there is an easy-to-understand example built-in with and .

Which one to choose is entirely to your mind ! The only difference between them is how you code the transform and reverseTransform methods.

Narrow-minded transformers

If you pick as examples the : It is said as a narrow-minded transformer as it will only accept to transform String to DateTime and reverseTransform DateTime to String. It will pick a string from the sourceObject and transform it into a DateTime object in the target object (via the mapToTarget method). And will pick the DateTime object from the target object and reverseTransform it into the sourceObject (via the mapFromTarget method)

If you try to do the opposite an Exception will be thrown.

Open-minded transformers

If you pick as examples the : It is said as an open-minded transformer as it will accept :

• to transform String to DateTime and reverseTransform DateTime to String.
• but also to transform Datetime to String and reverseTransform String to Datetime.

List Of built-in Transformers

Open-minded :

Narrow-minded:

Mapped collection inside Mapped object

If you need to have sub mapped elements inside your initial mapped class, the is the perfect fit.

• it can allow you to map collection elements to another (or also same to benefit of other feature!) class
• it can simulate the clearMissing feature to avoid default mapping clear on element not posted
• it can be deep chained