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Larasponse

Beautiful and easy to use API responses. It uses League/Fractal as a default provider.

Installation

Add Larasponse to your composer.json file:

"require": {
    "sorskod/larasponse": "~1.0"
}

and run composer update sorskod/larasponse

Registering the Package

Register the service provider within the providers array found in app/config/app.php:

'providers' => array(
    // ...
    'Sorskod\Larasponse\LarasponseServiceProvider'
)

Usage

Here is various examples in single controller:

use Sorskod\Larasponse\Larasponse;

class UserController extends BaseController
{
    protected $response;

    public function __construct(Larasponse $response)
    {
        $this->response = $response;

        // The Fractal parseIncludes() is available to use here
        $this->response->parseIncludes(Input::get('includes'));
    }

    public function index()
    {
        return $this->response->paginatedCollection(User::paginate());
    }

    public function show($id)
    {
        return $this->response->item(User::find($id), new UserTransformer());
    }


    public function collection()
    {
        return $this->response->collection(User::all(), new UserTransformer(), 'users');
    }
}

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