Spore

This function is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this function, its name, and surrounding documentation may change without notice in a future release of PHP.

SPORE is a way to describe public services HTTP APIs such as [twitter] 1 or applications with an HTTP interface such as [Apache CouchDB] 2 using a simple language-agnostic JSON document that can be used by various language-specific implementations to dynamically or statically generate high level client objects.

The goal of this git repository is to host:

• the specifications for the [SPORE description language] 3
• the specifications for writing a [SPORE client implementation] 4

Applications and services API descriptions

• API Descriptions

Install

Use Composer.phar

cd Spore/
curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install

Usage

The examples are a good place to start. The minimal you'll need to have is:

<?php
namespace Application;

require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

use Spore;

$client = new Spore\Client();
$client->loadSpec(__DIR__ . '/spec/github.json');
$response = $client->call('GET', 'get_user', array(
    'user' => 'euskadi31'
));

print_r($response->getContent());

?>

Output

stdClass Object
(
    [type] => User
    [company] => Audiofanzine
    [public_gists] => 6
    [followers] => 12
    [created_at] => 2010-02-03T10:25:00Z
    [blog] => 
    [following] => 42
    [email] => 
    [public_repos] => 14
    [location] => Toulouse, France
    [html_url] => https://github.com/euskadi31
    [name] => Axel Etcheverry
    [hireable] => 
    [url] => https://api.github.com/users/euskadi31
    [gravatar_id] => 6171ad2ceddde3288b87c546e92f2909
    [avatar_url] => https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6171ad2ceddde3288b87c546e92f2909?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png
    [id] => 195383
    [bio] => PHP & Zend Framework developer
    [login] => euskadi31
)

Generated client

cd Spore/
bin/spore generate:client demo/spec/github.json

<?php
namespace Application;

require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

use Acme;

$client = new Acme\Client\Github;
$response = $client->getUser(array(
    'user' => 'euskadi31'
));

print_r($response->getContent());
?>

Output

stdClass Object
(
    [type] => User
    [company] => Audiofanzine
    [public_gists] => 6
    [followers] => 12
    [created_at] => 2010-02-03T10:25:00Z
    [blog] => 
    [following] => 42
    [email] => 
    [public_repos] => 14
    [location] => Toulouse, France
    [html_url] => https://github.com/euskadi31
    [name] => Axel Etcheverry
    [hireable] => 
    [url] => https://api.github.com/users/euskadi31
    [gravatar_id] => 6171ad2ceddde3288b87c546e92f2909
    [avatar_url] => https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6171ad2ceddde3288b87c546e92f2909?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png
    [id] => 195383
    [bio] => PHP & Zend Framework developer
    [login] => euskadi31
)

Test with Atoum

The tests can be executed by using this command from the base directory:

./vendor/mageekguy/atoum/bin/atoum --glob Tests/Units/

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