XML Transformer

Installation

Use Composer to install the package:

$ composer require nilportugues/xml

Usage

Given a PHP Object, and a series of mappings, the XML Transformer will represent the given data as a XML object.

For instance, given the following piece of code, defining a Blog Post and some comments:

$post = new Post(
  new PostId(9),
  'Hello World',
  'Your first post',
  new User(
      new UserId(1),
      'Post Author'
  ),
  [
      new Comment(
          new CommentId(1000),
          'Have no fear, sers, your king is safe.',
          new User(new UserId(2), 'Barristan Selmy'),
          [
              'created_at' => (new DateTime('2015/07/18 12:13:00'))->format('c'),
              'accepted_at' => (new DateTime('2015/07/19 00:00:00'))->format('c'),
          ]
      ),
  ]
);

And a Mapping array for all the involved classes:

use NilPortugues\Api\Mapping\Mapper;

$mappings = [
    [
        'class' => Post::class,
        'alias' => 'Message',
        'aliased_properties' => [
            'author' => 'author',
            'title' => 'headline',
            'content' => 'body',
        ],
        'hide_properties' => [

        ],
        'id_properties' => [
            'postId',
        ],
        'urls' => [
            'self' => 'http://example.com/posts/{postId}',
            'comments' => 'http://example.com/posts/{postId}/comments'
        ],
    ],
    [
        'class' => PostId::class,
        'alias' => '',
        'aliased_properties' => [],
        'hide_properties' => [],
        'id_properties' => [
            'postId',
        ],
        'urls' => [
            'self' => 'http://example.com/posts/{postId}',
        ],
    ],
    [
        'class' => User::class,
        'alias' => '',
        'aliased_properties' => [],
        'hide_properties' => [],
        'id_properties' => [
            'userId',
        ],
        'urls' => [
            'self' => 'http://example.com/users/{userId}',
            'friends' => 'http://example.com/users/{userId}/friends',
            'comments' => 'http://example.com/users/{userId}/comments',
        ],
    ],
    [
        'class' => UserId::class,
        'alias' => '',
        'aliased_properties' => [],
        'hide_properties' => [],
        'id_properties' => [
            'userId',
        ],
        'urls' => [
            'self' => 'http://example.com/users/{userId}',
            'friends' => 'http://example.com/users/{userId}/friends',
            'comments' => 'http://example.com/users/{userId}/comments',
        ],
    ],
    [
        'class' => Comment::class,
        'alias' => '',
        'aliased_properties' => [],
        'hide_properties' => [],
        'id_properties' => [
            'commentId',
        ],
        'urls' => [
            'self' => 'http://example.com/comments/{commentId}',
        ],
    ],
    [
        'class' => CommentId::class,
        'alias' => '',
        'aliased_properties' => [],
        'hide_properties' => [],
        'id_properties' => [
            'commentId',
        ],
        'urls' => [
            'self' => 'http://example.com/comments/{commentId}',
        ],
    ],
];

$mapper = new Mapper($mappings);

Calling the transformer will output a valid XML response using the correct formatting:

use NilPortugues\Api\Xml\XmlSerializer;
use NilPortugues\Api\Xml\Http\Message\Response;

$serializer = new XmlSerializer($mapper);
$output = $serializer->serialize($post);

//PSR7 Response with headers and content.
$response = new Response($output);

header(
    sprintf(
        'HTTP/%s %s %s',
        $response->getProtocolVersion(),
        $response->getStatusCode(),
        $response->getReasonPhrase()
    )
);
foreach($response->getHeaders() as $header => $values) {
    header(sprintf("%s:%s\n", $header, implode(', ', $values)));
}

echo $response->getBody();

Output:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<data>
  <postId><![CDATA[9]]></postId>
  <headline><![CDATA[Hello World]]></headline>
  <body><![CDATA[Your first post]]></body>
  <author>
    <userId><![CDATA[1]]></userId>
    <name><![CDATA[Post Author]]></name>
  </author>
  <comments>
    <resource>
      <commentId><![CDATA[1000]]></commentId>
      <dates>
        <created_at><![CDATA[2015-07-18T12:13:00+02:00]]></created_at>
        <accepted_at><![CDATA[2015-07-19T00:00:00+02:00]]></accepted_at>
      </dates>
      <comment><![CDATA[Have no fear, sers, your king is safe.]]></comment>
      <user>
        <userId><![CDATA[2]]></userId>
        <name><![CDATA[Barristan Selmy]]></name>
      </user>
    </resource>
  </comments>
  <links>
    <link rel="self" href="http://example.com/posts/9"/>
    <link rel="comments" href="http://example.com/posts/9/comments"/>
  </links>
</data>

Quality

To run the PHPUnit tests at the command line, go to the tests directory and issue phpunit.

This library attempts to comply with PSR-1, PSR-2, PSR-4 and PSR-7.

If you notice compliance oversights, please send a patch via Pull Request.

Contribute

Contributions to the package are always welcome!

• Report any bugs or issues you find on the issue tracker.
• You can grab the source code at the package's Git repository.

Support

Get in touch with me using one of the following means:

• Emailing me at contact@nilportugues.com
• Opening an Issue

Authors

• Nil Portugués Calderó
• The Community Contributors

License

The code base is licensed under the MIT license.