Laravel DataMapper

• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration
• Options
• Testing
• Troubleshoot
• Contributing
• License

The laravel-datamapper provides a middleware that is able to convert an entity kind passed by request or url path to its respective model object . Take a look at contributing.md to see a to do list.

Installation

Via Composer

$ composer require agilize/laravel_datamapper

Usage

To allow Laravel Datamapper for all your routes, add the DataMappingMiddleware middleware at $middleware or $routeMiddleware property of app/Http/Kernel.php class:

protected $middleware = [
  \Agilize\LaravelDataMapper\DataMappingMiddleware::class,
    // ...
];

or

protected $routeMiddleware = [
  'datamapping' => \Agilize\LaravelDataMapper\DataMappingMiddleware::class,
    // ...
];

and add it in your routes:

Route::get('/user/{id}', function (Request $request) {
    // ...
})->middleware('datamapping');

The middleware will search for a matching Model referencing the key passed on path, query string or parameter bag.

Eg.: http://yourdomain.com/api/v1/user/1 will search for User.php (instance of Eloquent ORM Model) that exists on your database with id 1. See Configuration for more details.

It also supports hyphen and underscore separated names. Eg.: http://yourdomain.com/api/v1/user-role/1 => UserRole.php

Relationships

By default, the middleware is set to bring all existent relationships from Model. However, you need to create a withAll scope in your model:

public function scopeWithAll($query)
{
    $query->with('relation1', 'relation2');
}

If you don't want to bring any relationships from your Model, you can add a middleware parameter in your route to disable it:

Route::get('/user/{id}', function (Request $request) {
    // ...
})->middleware('datamapping:no-relations');

Configuration

The defaults are set in config/datamapping.php. Publish the config to copy the file to your own config:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="datamapping"

Options

Option	Description	Default value
entity_directory	Default path to model directory of your project, eg. app_path('Packages').	string
primary_key_type	Default primary key type of your database tables, eg. 'integer' or 'uuid'.	string
api_version	Main version of your REST API, eg. 'v1'.	string

Testing

$ composer test

Troubleshoot

Invalid key value type on Configuration file.

RuntimeException: DataMapping config `some_key` should be a string.

Invalid directory on Configuration file.

RecursiveDirectoryIterator::__construct(...) error.

Any other not supported or invalid configuration may not cause an Exception, but will not attempt to exactly match the Model.

Contributing

Please see contributing.md for details and a todolist.

License

Released under the MIT License. Please see the license for more information.