README

Laravel Responder is a package for building API responses,

Installation

To get started, install the package through Composer:

composer require offspring/laravel-handle-responder

Publish Package Assets (optional)

You may additionally publish the package configuration and language file using the vendor:publish Artisan command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Offspring\Responder\ResponderServiceProvider"

This will publish a responder.php configuration file in your config folder. It will also publish an errors.php file inside your lang/en folder which can be used for storing error messages.

####  Use `responder` Helper

If you're a fan of Laravel's `response` helper function, you may like the `responder` helper function:

```php
return responder()->success();

return responder()->error();

Building Responses

The success and error methods return a SuccessResponseBuilder and ErrorResponseBuilder respectively, which both extend an abstract ResponseBuilder, giving them common behaviors. They will be converted to JSON when returned from a controller, but you can explicitly create an instance of Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse with the respond method:

return responder()->success()->respond();

return responder()->error()->respond();

The status code is set to 200 by default, but can be changed by setting the first parameter. You can also pass a list of headers as the second argument:

return responder()->success()->respond(201, ['x-foo' => true]);

return responder()->error()->respond(404, ['x-foo' => false]);

Consider always using the respond method for consistency's sake.

Casting Response Data

Instead of converting the response to a JsonResponse using the respond method, you can cast the response data to a few other types, like an array:

return responder()->success()->toArray();

return responder()->error()->toArray();

Decorating Response

A response decorator allows for last minute changes to the response before it's returned. The package comes with two response decorators out of the box adding a status and success field to the response output. The decorators key in the configuration file defines a list of all enabled response decorators:

'decorators' => [
    \Offspring\Responder\Http\Responses\Decorators\StatusCodeDecorator::class,
    \Offspring\Responder\Http\Responses\Decorators\SuccessFlagDecorator::class,
],

You may disable a decorator by removing it from the list, or add your own decorator extending the abstract class Flugg\Responder\Http\Responses\Decorators\ResponseDecorator. You can also add additional decorators per response:

return responder()->success()->decorator(ExampleDecorator::class)->respond();

return responder()->error()->decorator(ExampleDecorator::class)->respond();

The package also ships with some situational decorators disabled by default, but which can be added to the decorator list:

• PrettyPrintDecorator decorator will beautify the JSON output;

\Offspring\Responder\Http\Responses\Decorators\PrettyPrintDecorator::class,

• EscapeHtmlDecorator decorator, based on the "sanitize input, escape output" concept, will escape HTML entities in all strings returned by your API. You can securely store input data "as is" (even malicious HTML tags) being sure that it will be outputted as un-harmful strings. Note that, using this decorator, printing data as text will result in the wrong representation and you must print it as HTML to retrieve the original value.

\Offspring\Responder\Http\Responses\Decorators\EscapeHtmlDecorator::class,