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Polymorphine/Message

PSR-7 Http message implementation

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Basic usage

Public API of base classes in this package is an implementation of PSR-7: HTTP message interfaces and won't be described here. Below you'll find description of object instantiation methods and their parameter formatting specific to this package.

PSR-17 Factories

Not every aspect of created objects can be changed with mutation methods (like in UriInterface), that's where the need for common factory interfaces came from. Packages that want to rely on abstract psr/message interface, and retain control of passing immutable parameters to encapsulated objects from within their classes will depend on PSR-17: HTTP Factories. For interoperability reasons Package includes implementations of these factories.

Direct instantiation

Constructor instantiation for each of the classes described below allows to create fully configured objects, and since some of them contains many encapsulated parameters instantiating such object might be tedious and unreadable. For some, frequently created objects static constructors are provided to pass some predefined parameters.

ServerRequest

The straight forward way is to instantiate ServerRequest from server globals using ServerRequest::fromGlobals() named constructor and optionally overriding its parameters passing array with server, get, post, cookie or files keys:

This will be most typical way to create ServerRequest instance. Because complete ServerRequest contains large amount of data, other methods of instantiation in production application use cases would require much more effort, and they'll be used mostly for testing with only necessary values provided. For example instead overriding server provided data you can fake it entirely by passing filled arrays to factory's constructor:

Or create new instance directly passing various parameters: request method string, UriInterface, StreamInterface body, headers array and parameters with UploadedFileInterface array, protocol version, parsed body, cookie array... etc. Check ServerRequest constructor phpDoc and some of its parameters implementations for more details.

Request & Response

Request can be created with constructor similar to used in ServerRequest, but $params array uses only version and target keys that defaults to 1.1 and string resolved from $uri parameter.

Response comes with several convenient static constructors that create instance preconfigured with status code or specific headers (usually Content-Type). Default constructor parameters are similar to Request constructor where method and Uri were replaced by status code, and reason phrase instead target in params.

Uri, Stream & UploadedFile

Default constructor for Uri requires array of segments, which is not convenient, but static Uri::fromString() method will create instance by parsing supplied string.

Constructor for Stream takes stream resource type, but two static methods will help creating one - either with uri and access mode or with body string to encapsulate.

UploadedFile all constructor parameters can be derived from server's $_FILES superglobal. Actually all, except StreamInterface, could be passed directly. Secondary constructor method - UploadedFile::fromFileArray() - is a convenient way of translating superglobal into class instance creating stream instance in the process.

Note that for multiple files superglobal data structure is populated in somewhat transposed fashion, so extracting it to create multiple instances of UploadedFile requires some iterations over its nested structure. Since these objects will be used mostly as server request property, instances for multiple files are created within ServerData object. You can use this class to create the array of multiple uploaded files from transposed array (normally $_FILES) if you want to do it separately:

UploadedFile for non-SAPI environments

UploadedFileFactory by default creates UploadedFile instance for web server environments, which support $_FILES superglobal and security mechanism that can tell whether given file was really uploaded or not (you cannot simply pick any file in the filesystem and move it somewhere else). In case of other types of http servers (like command line scripts listening for http requests in some event loop), you cannot use move_uploaded_file() function and need to handle this process differently.

Package includes NonSAPIUploadedFile that can move file (stream) in non-SAPI environments, but security part (recognising that file was uploaded) depends on implementation and should be resolved internally (when creating stream). You can create its instance directly or with factory that was instantiated with specific sapi name (for example: cli) or empty string. You can also resolve it automatically and create either UploadedFile or NonSAPIUploadedFile depending on predefined PHP_SAPI constant: