library jsend

themallen/jsend

JSend is a library intended to make outputting data for RESTful responses easy and painless using the super simple JSend specification.

JSend

This lightweight JSend library was built because I needed an easy way to write responses to REST queries. I wanted to use a standard that was simple and clear, and I found one in JSend. I tried my best to create a jQueryesque fluent interface for it. Basically everything is chainable, and mutators are get/set hybrids., _(*1)

TODO: The ability to pass a jSend output into a jSend constructor would almost certainly be a good idea. In many cases they will be processed by javascript, but sometimes multiple php processes may need to send eachother jsons., _(*2)

Updates

• Added security prefixing.

Installing

For composer, add "themallen/jsend": "dev-master" to your require object., _(*3)

For anyone else, just git clone the repo into your desired folder and add it to whatever include_path or autoloader solution you're using. For example, in codeigniter you would install it to the application/libraries folder., _(*4)

Example usage

Configure a jSend manually

You simply use the mutators passing in your desired data. You can echo the object directly in your response thanks to __toString() automagically json_encodeing for you., _(*5)

    <?php
       $jSend = new \themallen\JSend();

       echo $jSend->data(array(...))
             ->message('some message');
             ->status('success');
             ->output();

Shortcut functions

You don't have to be a rubyist to appreciate one liners. JSend has some shortcut methods so you can produce common message formats easily. Shortcuts are chainable, and as a result you can one line creating and echoing jSend objects as long as you don't need to much fancy business., _(*6)

• success($data) sets the status to success and passes any input to the data field.

       echo (new JSend())->success(array(...));

• fail sets the status to fail and passes any input to the message field.

       echo (new JSend())->fail('You messed up!');

• error sets the status to error and passes any input to the message feld.

       echo (new JSend())->error('We messed up!');

Getting values out of a jSend.

You can use any of the mutator methods to access property values., _(*7)

       $jSend = new \themallen\JSend();

       echo $jSend->data(array('messageId' => $generator->makeAnId()))
                   ->message('some message');
                   ->status('success');
                   ->output();
       $db->store($jSend->data()['messageId']);

Contributing

If you feel like making this better, feel free to open a pull request! Even some tests or something would be pretty rad., _(*8)

License

Pretty much everything I make I'd consider under the Don't Be a Dick license, _(*9)