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Object Transformation Library

In a need to map object data from one system to another, I was always using temporary, throw-away solutions, which turned out to be pretty ugly.

PHP 5.3 Reflection API changes the game...

Usage

Assume you have a product and a line item. Line item gets added to the order and essentially represents the product, with some data frozen (price) for historical reasons - you don't want product price updates to change customer order history and financial information.

You could write a manual getData() setData($data) type of transform, or you could use this Transform library.

Assume you have two classes. Product class:

<?php
class Product {
    private $id;
    private $name;
    private $price;
    public function setId($id) {
        $this->id = $id;
    }
    public function setName($name) {
        $this->name = $name;
    }
    public function setPrice($price) {
        $this->price = $price;
    }
}

LineItem class:

<?php
class LineItem {
    private $productId;
    private $name;
    private $unitPrice;
    public function getProductId() {
        return $this->productId;
    }
    public function getName() {
        return $this->name;
    }
    public function getUnitPrice() {
        return $this->unitPrice;
    }
}

You need to define the properties map, that would guide the transformation, in a array('source property name' => 'target property name', ...) manner:

<?php
$map = array(
    'id'    => 'productId',
    'name'    => 'name',
    'price'    => 'unitPrice',
);

Instantiate your source class:

$product = new Product();
$product->setId('unique-id');
$product->setName('T-Shirt');
$product->setPrice(49.99);

Or just use array of data (useful when need to convert Web Services result):

$product = array(
    'id' => 'unique-id',
    'name' => 'T-Shirt',
    'price' => 49.99,
);

And tranform:

$transformer = new Transformer();
$transformer->setTransformationMap($map);

$lineItem = $transformer->transform($product, 'LineItem');
// or
//...
$lineItem = new LineItem();
$transformer->transform($product, $lineItem);

$lineItem->getProductId();
$lineItem->getName();
$lineItem->getUnitPrice();

Another useful example is when you have some input data from one of your data sources, which already has the correct mappings, then you could use the PropertyManipulator class:

<?php
$data = array(
    'productId' => 'unique-id',
    'name' => 'T-Shirt',
    'unitPrice' => 49.99,
);

$manipulator = new PropertyManipulator();
$lineItem = $manipulator->inject('LineItem', $data);
// or
//...
$lineItem = new LineItem();
$manipulator->inject($lineItem, $data);

The other manipulator method, that can come in handy is extract():

<?php
//...
echo json_encode($manipulator->extract($lineItem));
// outputs: { productId: "unique-id", name: "T-Shirt", unitPrice: 49.99 }

Happy coding!

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