Hydrator

Hydrator can be used for two purposes:

• To extract data from a class to be further stored in a persistent storage.
• To fill an object with data or create a new instance of a class filled with data.

In both cases it is saving and filling protected and private properties without calling any methods which leads to ability to persist state of an object with properly encapsulated data.

Installation

The preferred way to install this package is through composer.

composer require --prefer-dist samdark/hydrator

Usage

Consider we have a Post entity which represents a blog post. It has a title and a text. A unique id is generated to identify it.

class Post
{
    private $id;
    protected $title;
    protected $text;

    public function __construct($title, $text)
    {
        $this->id = uniqid('post_', true);
        $this->title = $title;
        $this->text = $text;
    }
   
    public function getId()
    {
        return $this->id;
    }
    
    public function getTitle()
    {
        return $this->title;
    }
    
    public function setTitle($title)
    {
        $this->title = $title;
    }
    
    public function getText()
    {
        return $this->text;
    }
    
    public function setText()
    {
        return $this->text;
    }
}

Saving a post to database:

$post = new Post('First post', 'Hell, it is a first post.');

$postHydrator = new \samdark\hydrator\Hydrator([
    'id' => 'id',
    'title' => 'title',
    'text' => 'text',
]);

$data = $postHydrator->extract($post);
save_to_database($data);

Loading post from database:

<?php
$data = load_from_database();

$postHydrator = new \samdark\hydrator\Hydrator([
    'id' => 'id',
    'title' => 'title',
    'text' => 'text',
]);

$post = $postHydrator->hydrate($data, Post::class);
echo $post->getId();

Filling existing post object with data:

$data = load_from_database();

$postHydrator = new \samdark\hydrator\Hydrator([
    'title' => 'title',
    'text' => 'text',
]);

$post = get_post();
$post = $postHydrator->hydrateInto($data, $post);
echo $post->getTitle();