APITOOLKIT

APITOOLKIT is a comprehensive package for Laravel that provides powerful tools for building queries, handling API responses, and managing caching efficiently.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require mhasnainjafri/apitoolkit

Features

APITOOLKIT provides a variety of features for building and handling API responses efficiently:

• Query Building: Construct queries with filters, sorts, includes, and more.
• API Response Helpers: Standardize API responses.
• Caching: Cache API responses for a specified duration.
• Custom Responses: Standardized methods for success, error, validation, and other types of responses.

Usage

Query Building

APITOOLKIT helps you build complex queries easily.

use Mhasnainjafri\APIToolkit\QueryBuilder\QueryBuilder;

// Example usage
$users = QueryBuilder::for(User::class)
    ->allowedFilters(['name', 'email'])
    ->allowedSorts(['name', 'created_at'])
    ->paginate();

API Responses

APITOOLKIT offers various methods to handle API responses efficiently.

Success Response

use Mhasnainjafri\APIToolkit\API;

return API::success($data, 'Data retrieved successfully');

Error Response

use Mhasnainjafri\APIToolkit\API;

return API::error('An error occurred', 500);

Validation Error Response

use Mhasnainjafri\APIToolkit\API;

$errors = ['email' => 'The email field is required.'];
return API::validationError($errors);

Not Found Response

use Mhasnainjafri\APIToolkit\API;

return API::notFound('User not found');

Caching

You can cache responses to improve performance and reduce load on your database.

Cached Response

use Mhasnainjafri\APIToolkit\API;
use App\Models\User;

$resource = User::query();
$cacheKey = 'users_list';

return API::cachedResponse($resource, $cacheKey);

Paginated Cached Response

use Mhasnainjafri\APIToolkit\API;
use App\Models\User;

$resource = User::query();
$pageNumber = 1;

return API::paginatedCachedResponse($resource, $pageNumber);

Clearing Cache

use Mhasnainjafri\APIToolkit\API;

$cacheKey = 'users_list';
API::clearCacheKey($cacheKey);

Custom Responses

You can also create custom responses as needed.

use Mhasnainjafri\APIToolkit\API;

$data = ['key' => 'value'];
return API::custom($data, 'Custom response message');

Constants

APITOOLKIT provides various HTTP status codes as constants for convenience:

• API::SUCCESS: 200
• API::CREATED: 201
• API::NO_CONTENT: 204
• API::BAD_REQUEST: 400
• API::UNAUTHORIZED: 401
• API::FORBIDDEN: 403
• API::NOT_FOUND: 404
• API::METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED: 405
• API::UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY: 422
• API::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR: 500
• API::NOT_IMPLEMENTED: 501
• API::BAD_GATEWAY: 502
• API::SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: 503

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue on GitHub.

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.