application/hal builder / formatter for PHP 5.4+
This is a library for creating documents in the application/hal+json and application/hal+xml hypermedia formats
It requires PHP 5.4 or later.
use Nocarrier\Hal;$hal = new Hal('/orders'); $hal->addLink('next', '/orders?page=2'); $hal->addLink('search', '/orders?id={order_id}');
$resource = new Hal( '/orders/123', array( 'total' => 30.00, 'currency' => 'USD', ) );
$resource->addLink('customer', '/customer/bob', array('title' => 'Bob Jones ')); $hal->addResource('order', $resource); echo $hal->asJson(); echo $hal->asXml();
The preferred method of installation is via packagist as this provides the PSR-0 autoloader functionality. The following command will download and install the latest version of the Hal library into your project.
php composer.phar require nocarrier/hal
Alternatively, clone the project and install into your project manually.
Nocarrier\Hal is licensed under the MIT license.
A Hal resource can be created with no values set:
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal();
with a URI for the resource:
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal('/orders');
and also with an array of data:
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal('/orders', ['customerId' => 'CUS1234']);
Hal resources can also be created from existing XML or JSON documents:
$hal = \Nocarrier\Hal::fromJson($jsonString);
$hal = \Nocarrier\Hal::fromXml($xmlString);
$hal = \Nocarrier\Hal::fromXml($simpleXMLElement);
The depth of embedded resources parsed with both these methods is controlled by a second argument, which defaults to 0:
$hal = \Nocarrier\Hal::fromJson($jsonString, 5);
The Hal resource can be formatted as JSON or XML:
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal('/orders', ['customerId' => 'CUS1234']); $hal->asJson();
which with a first argument of
truefor pretty printing:
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal('/orders', ['customerId' => 'CUS1234']); $hal->asJson(true);
gives:
{ "customerId": "CUS1234", "_links": { "self": {"href": "/orders"} } }
and
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal('/orders', ['customerId' => 'CUS1234']); $hal->asXml(true);
gives:
CUS1234
The data can be set through
setDataand read with
getData:
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal('/orders'); $hal->setData(['customerId' => 'CUS1234']); $hal->getData();
Using array keys in the data for the XML representation can be done by prefixing the key with
@:
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal('/orders'); $hal->setData(['customerId' => ['CUS1234', '@type' => 'legacy']]);
gives:
The
@is ignored if JSON is rendered:
{ "customerId": { "value": "CUS1234", "type":" legacy" }, "_links": { "self": {"href": "/orders"} } }
Links can be added to the resource by providing the rel identifying them and a URI:
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal('/orders', ['customerId' => 'CUS1234']); $hal->addLink('next', '/orders?page=2'); $hal->addLink('search', '/orders?id={order_id}');
gives:
{ "customerId": "CUS1234", "_links": { "self": { "href": "/orders" }, "next": { "href": "/orders?page=2" }, "search": { "href": "/orders?id={order_id}" } } }
If a Hal object has been created from a response returned from elsewhere it can be helpful to retrieve the links from it.
$json = '{ "customerId": "CUS1234", "_links": { "self": { "href": "/orders" }, "next": { "href": "/orders?page=2" }, "search": { "href": "/orders?id={order_id}" } } }';$hal = \Nocarrier\Hal::fromJson($json);
foreach($hal->getLinks() as $rel => $links) { echo $rel."\n"; foreach($links as $link) { echo (string) $link."\n"; } }
next /orders?page=2 search /orders?id={order_id}
and
$json = '{ "customerId": "CUS1234", "_links": { "self": { "href": "/orders" }, "next": { "href": "/orders?page=2" }, "search": { "href": "/orders?id={order_id}" } } }'; $hal = \Nocarrier\Hal::fromJson($json); foreach($hal->getLink('next') as $link) { echo (string) $link."\n"; }
outputs:
/orders?page=2
As well as linking to resources so that the client can fetch them they can be directly embedded in the resource.
$hal = new \Nocarrier\Hal('/orders', ['customerId' => 'CUS1234']);$resource = new \Nocarrier\Hal( '/orders/123', array( 'total' => 30.00, 'currency' => 'USD', ) );
$resource->addLink('customer', '/customer/bob', array('title' => 'Bob Jones ')); $hal->addResource('order', $resource);
outputs:
{ "customerId": "CUS1234", "_links": { "self": { "href": "/orders" } }, "_embedded": { "order": [ { "total": 30, "currency": "USD", "_links": { "self": { "href": "/orders/123" }, "customer": { "href": "/customer/bob", "title": "Bob Jones " } } } ] } }