README

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require larapie/guard

Have you ever…

… encountered a situation where you had countless if statements that needed to throw specific errors when conditions were met?

Here's an example:

public function foo()
{
    if($user==null)
        throw new UserNotFoundException();
        
    if($user->age < 18)
        throw new NotOldEnoughException(18);
        
    ...
}

The goal of this package is to decouple these conditions and their exceptions in a guard object. This guard object can then be handled by the GuardHandler. By structuring this code in a guard object, we gain several advantages:

• We're able to reuse the same conditions in the code elsewhere.
• The code becomes a lot easier to read.
• More fine grained control of what exceptions will be thrown.

Let's rewrite the example from above with guards:

public function foo()
{
    guard(new UserDoesNotExistsGuard($user), new UserInsufficientAgeGuard($user, 18));
}

Note that the order of the guards will determine what exception will be thrown first.

class UserDoesNotExistsGuard extends Guard
{

    /**
     * The exception that will be thrown when the condition is met
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $exception = UserNotFoundException::class;


    /**
     * @var User
     */
    protected $user;

    /**
     * UserDoesNotExistsGuard constructor.
     * @param $user
     */
    public function __construct(User $user)
    {
        $this->user = $user;
    }

    /**
     * The condition that needs to be satisfied in order to throw the exception.
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function condition(): bool
    {
        return $this->user===null;
    }
}

class UserInsufficientAgeGuard extends Guard
{
    /**
     * @var User
     */
    protected $user;
    
    /**
     * @var int
     */
    protected $age;    

    /**
     * UserDoesNotExistsGuard constructor.
     * @param $user
     */
    public function __construct(User $user, int $age)
    {
        $this->user = $user;
        $this->age = $age;
    }

    /**
     * The condition that needs to be satisfied in order to throw the exception.
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function condition(): bool
    {
        return $this->user->age < this->age;
    }
    
    /**
     * The exception that gets thrown when the condition is satisfied.
     *
     * @return \Throwable
     */
    public function exception(): \Throwable
    {
        return new NotOldEnoughException(18);
    }    
}

Future

• Implement a feature that allows the guard handler to handle OR statements.

Changelog

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

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

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

Credits

• Anthony Vancauwenberghe
• All Contributors

License

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