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Package dto
Short Description Data Transfer Objects for all PHP applications
License MIT
Informations about the package dto
Horizom DTO
Data Transfer Objects for all PHP applications.Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) are objects that are used to transfer data between systems. DTOs are typically used in applications to provide a simple, consistent format for transferring data between different parts of the application, such as between the user interface and the business logic.
Installation
Usage
Defining DTO Properties
Creating DTO Instances
You can create a DTO
instance on many ways:
From array
You can also use the fromArray
static method:
From JSON strings
Accessing DTO Data
After you create your DTO
instance, you can access any properties like an object
:
Casting DTO Properties
You can cast your DTO
properties to some types:
Defining Default Values
Sometimes we can have properties that are optional and that can have default values. You can define the default values for your DTO
properties in the defaults
function:
With the DTO
definition above you could run:
Transforming DTO Data
You can convert your DTO to some formats:
To array
To JSON string
Create Your Own Type Cast
Castable classes
You can easily create new Castable
types for your project by implementing the Horizom\DTO\Contracts\CastableContract
interface. This interface has a single method that must be implemented:
Let's say that you have a URLWrapper
class in your project, and you want that when passing a URL into your DTO
it will always return a URLWrapper
instance instead of a simple string:
Then you could apply this to your DTO:
Callable casts
You can also create new Castable types for your project by using a callable/callback:
Or you can use a static method:
Case of possibility of extending with Laravel
You can extend the DTO
class to create your own DTO
class with some custom methods:
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.