Laravel Web Service

A laravel package built as a wrapper around Guzzle for connections to external services/APIs

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require youngmayor/web-service

Usage

The package uses auto discovery hence if you use Laravel 5.5 or above, installing the package automatically registers it in your application.

However, if you use Laravel 5.4 or below you will need to add the below snipet to your config/app.php to register the Service Provider

'providers' => [
    ...
    YoungMayor\WebService\WebServiceServiceProvider,
    ...
],

Next create your Service class to extend the WebService class

<?php

namespace App\Services;

use YoungMayor\WebService\WebService;

class MyExampleService extends WebService
{
    /**
    * The baseUri for the service. 
    * This is an important method that must be implemented when extending the WebService Class
    *
    * @return string
    */
    public function baseUri()
    {
        return "https://example.com";
    }

    public function demoAction(array $payload = [])
    {
        return $this->post("/demo/endpoint", [
            'json' => $payload
        ]);
    }
    // ...
}

Your service can seat anywhere on your application. The above is just an example

Setting Default Headers

It is possible to apply default headers to every request . Example

...
protected $headers = [
    'Accept' => 'application/json'
]

This can be also be achieved by calling the setHeaders($headers) method on the construct

...
public function __construct()
{
    parent::__construct(); 

    // $bearerToken = ...;
    $this->setHeaders([
        "Content-Type" => "application/json", 
        "Authorization" => "Basic {$bearerToken}"
    ]);
}

Setting Client Configurations

Client configurations can also be set using the clientConfig() method. By returning an array of configurations to append to the request

... 
public function clientConfig()
{
    // $apiKey = ...;

    return array_merge(parent::clientConfig(), [
        'auth' => [$apiKey, 'X'],
        'follow_redirects' => true
    ]);
}

Then you can add your methods to perform actions. The WebService exposes the following methods

get($path, $options);
post($path, $options);
put($path, $options);
delete($path, $options);
patch($path, $options);

The path is the relative path we would want to call and the options are Guzzle Request Options

Using your service class

Your service class can now be injected or instantiated anywhere on your application.

<?php 

namespace App\Http\Controllers; 

// ...

class DemoController extends Controller
{
    public function demoMethod(Request $request, MyExampleService $myExampleService)
    {
        // Quickly send the request and render the response/error
        return $myExampleService->demoAction()->render();


        // Interact with the response 
        $response = $myExampleService->demoAction();

        // Render the response 
        return $response->render(); 

        //  Get the status code
        $statusCode = $response->getStatusCode(); 

        // Get the response body
        $responseBody = $response->getBody();

        // You can also handle the response/error
        $response->onComplete(
            // ...
        );


        // Handle response/error
        /**
         * The onComplete($onSuccessCallback, $onErrorCallback) method takes two parameters
         * 1. callback to execute on a successful request 
         * 2. callback to execute on a failed request
         * 
         * Both callbacks receive an object which has the following methods:
         * - render(): Renders the response/error to an array
         * - getStatusCode(): Get the status code of the error 
         * - getBody(): Get the body of the response/error as an array
         * 
         * The object passed to the onErrorCallback however has a method for retrieving the error message
         * - getMessage(): Get the error message
         */
        return $myExampleService->demoAction()->onComplete(function($response) {
            $result = $response->render(); 

            $body = $response->getBody(); 

            $statusCode = $response->getStatusCode();

            return [
                'status' => $statusCode, 
                'body' => $body, 
                'message' => "This is a successful call"
            ]
            // OR
            return $result;
        }, function ($error) {
            $result = $error->render(); 

            $body = $error->getBody(); 

            $statusCode = $error->getStatusCode();

            $message = $error->getMessage();

            return [
                'status' => $statusCode, 
                'body' => $body, 
                'message' => "An error occurred: $message"
            ]
            // OR
            return $result;
        });
    }
}

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

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

YoungMayor/laravel-web-service