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Laravel package that adds custom casts for models attributes.

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require gregoriohc/laravel-castable

In Laravel 5.5 the package will autoregister the service provider. In Laravel 5.4 and before you must install this service provider.

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    ...
    Gregoriohc\Castable\ServiceProvider::class,
    ...
];

Usage

With Castable base model

The fastest way is using \Gregoriohc\Castable\CustomCastableModel as your base model.

Without Castable base model

Add HasCustomCasts trait to your the model you want to add custom attribute casting (if you want to use it in all your models, I suggest adding it to your own base model).

Override castAttribute model method:

protected function castAttribute($key, $value)
{
    return $this->customCastAttribute($key, parent::castAttribute($key, $value));
}

Override setAttribute model method:

public function setAttribute($key, $value)
{
    return parent::setAttribute($key, $value)->customSetAttribute($key, $value);
}

Override toArray model method:

public function toArray()
{
    return $this->customToArray(parent::toArray());
}

Add custom casted attributes to the model casts array:

protected $casts = [
    'location' => 'point',
    'bounding_box' => 'multipoint',
];

A full model example would look like this:

namespace App\Models;

use Gregoriohc\Castable\HasCustomCasts;

class Place extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model
{
    use HasCustomCasts;
    
    protected $casts = [
        'location' => 'point',
        'bounding_box' => 'multipoint',
    ];

    protected function castAttribute($key, $value)
    {
        return $this->customCastAttribute($key, parent::castAttribute($key, $value));
    }

    public function setAttribute($key, $value)
    {
        return parent::setAttribute($key, $value)->customSetAttribute($key, $value);
    }
    
    public function toArray()
    {
        return $this->customToArray(parent::toArray());
    }
}

Attribute migration, setting and getting

Depending on the custom caster, the attribute will accept and return different values when setting/getting. Also, the required database migration type will differ. For the included casters, you can see the doc in the caster class file.

For example, for the point caster requires a Point database migration type, and to set its value you can do the following:

$place->location = [12.345, 67.890];

Configuration

You can optionally publish the config file with:

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Gregoriohc\Castable\ServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Creating a custom caster

You can create a custom caster extending the \Gregoriohc\Castable\Casters\Caster class and implementing as and from methods. For example:

namespace \App\Casters;

class SerializableObject extends \Gregoriohc\Castable\Casters\Caster
{
    public function as($value)
    {
        return unserialize($value);
    }

    public function from($value)
    {
        return serialize($value);
    }
}

The as method must transform the raw attribute value (from the database or internal) to the usable model attribute, and the from method must do the opposite thing.

After that, add the custom caster to the config file:

// config/castable.php
'casters' => [
    ...
    'serializable' => \App\Casters\SerializableObject::class,
    ...
];

Testing

$ composer test

Change log

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING and CODE_OF_CONDUCT for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email gregoriohc@gmail.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Socialware

You're free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment I highly appreciate you sharing it on any social network.

Credits

• Gregorio Hernández Caso
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.