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Laravel TOON

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The most complete TOON implementation for Laravel, and the only one with full TOON v3.0 specification compliance. Listed as official Laravel implementation.

TOON (Token-Optimized Object Notation) is a compact, YAML-like format designed to reduce token usage when sending data to LLMs. This package achieves ~50% token reduction compared to JSON while maintaining full round-trip fidelity, backed by 470 tests.

Installation

Quick Start

Output:

Global Helper Functions

For convenience, global helper functions are available:

Collection Macro: toToon

You can convert any Laravel collection directly to TOON format with the built-in toToon macro:

Output:

Eloquent Model: toToon

Eloquent models have a toToon method, similar to toJson and toArray:

Why TOON?

When building MCP servers or LLM-powered applications, every token counts. JSON's verbosity wastes context window space with repeated keys and structural characters.

JSON (201 bytes):

TOON (62 bytes) - 69% smaller:

Benchmarks

For a typical paginated API response (50 records):

Real-world benchmarks from a production application with 17,000+ records:

Data Type JSON TOON Savings
50 records 30,389 bytes 14,343 bytes 53%
100 records 60,856 bytes 28,498 bytes 53%
500 records 303,549 bytes 140,154 bytes 54%
1,000 records 604,408 bytes 277,614 bytes 54%

Features

Tabular Format

Arrays of uniform objects with primitive values are encoded as compact tables:

List Format for Nested Objects

Arrays containing objects with nested properties use list format for clarity:

Type Preservation

All scalar types are preserved through encode/decode:

String Quoting (Spec-Compliant)

Strings containing special characters are automatically quoted per the TOON spec:

Safe strings (alphanumeric, underscores, dots) remain unquoted for minimal overhead.

Configuration

Publish the config file:

Basic Options

Token-Saving Options

Value Transformation

Utility Methods

Measure Savings

Encode Specific Keys Only

Use Cases

MCP Servers

Reduce token usage when returning data from MCP tool calls:

LLM Context

Pack more data into your context window:

API Responses

Optional TOON responses for token-conscious clients:

Spec Compliance

This package implements the TOON v3.0 specification and passes the official specification test suite. Key compliance features:

Testing

The test suite includes 470 tests covering encoding, decoding, nested object handling, and official spec compliance fixtures.

Requirements

Credits

License

MIT

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