[New package] ODM/ORM based Datamapping to Document classes

[alexander-schranz]

The current abstraction requires json like arrays to be indexed and return that indexes. There should be in future another package build on top of seal package which will do mapping from PHP Classes so Document Object to this array and back to it.

So the seal package will be something like what in doctrine is doctrine/dbal and the odm or whatever we will call it will be what doctrine/orm is.

A ODM Impelmentaiton could look like this:

<?php

use Schranz\Search\SEAL\Schema\Field;
use Schranz\Search\SEAL\Schema\Index;

#[Index(name: 'news')]
class News {
    #[Field\IdentifierField('id')]
    private string $id;
    
    #[Field\TextField('title')]
    private string $title;
    
    #[Field\TypedField('header', 'type', [
        'image' => [
            'media' => new Field\IntegerField('media'),
        ],
        'video' => [
            'media' => new Field\TextField('media', searchable: false),
        ],
    ])]
    private array $header;
    
    // ...
}

Open Points

• array <-> object mapping: Find the best way to map array to object maybe look at following components:
  • Symfony Normalizer and Denormalizer
  • Symfony PropertyAccessor
  • Symfony ObjectMapper
  • Doctrine Object Instantiator
  • thephpleague/object-mapper
  • JanePHP
  • CuyZ/Valinor