Laravel Dingo API - How to respond with multiple collections / transformers? - php

Question

To initialize my app I have the following route:
/initialize
This returns Taxonomies, Enumerables and a couple of other taxonomy like collections. This saves multiple HTTP requests.
Although with Dingo / Fractal, I cannot see how I can respond with multiple collections?
e.g.
return [
'taxonomies' => $this->response->collection($taxonomies, new TaxonomyTransformer);
'enumerables' => $this->response->collection($enumerables, new EnumerableTransformer);
'otherStuff' => $this->response->collection($otherStuff, new OtherStuffTransformer);
];

Answer 1

return response()->json([
'data' => [
'taxonomies' => $this->fractal->collection($taxonomies, new TaxonomyTransformer);
'enumerables' => $this->fractal->collection($enumerables, new EnumerableTransformer);
'otherStuff' => $this->fractal->collection($otherStuff, new OtherStuffTransformer);
]
], 200);
This should return the JSON in the format you are looking for.

Answer 2

I have the same issue ,and I found the solution from How to use Transformer in one to many relationship. #1054.
Here is the collection I want to return with the transfomer of dingo in my controller.
$user = User::where('email','=',$input['email'])->with('departments')->with('roles')->get();
DepartmentTransformer
class DepartmentTransformer extends TransformerAbstract
{
public function transform($department)
{
return [
'id' => $department['id'],
'name' => $department['name'],
'level' => $department['level'],
'parent_id' => $department['parent_id']
];
}
}
RolesTransformer
class RolesTransformer extends TransformerAbstract
{
public function transform($role)
{
return [
'name' => $role['name'],
'slug' => $role['slug'],
'description' => $role['description'],
'level' => $role['level']
];
}
}
UserTransformer
class UserTransformer extends TransformerAbstract
{
protected $defaultIncludes = ['departments','roles'];
public function transform($user)
{
return [
'id' => $user['id'],
'name' => $user['name'],
'email' => $user['email'],
'phone' => $user['phone'],
];
}
public function includeDepartments(User $user)
{
$dept = $user->departments;
return $this->collection($dept, new DepartmentTransformer());
}
public function includeRoles(User $user)
{
$rl = $user->roles;
return $this->collection($rl, new RolesTransformer());
}
}
In my controller
$user = User::where('email','=',$input['email'])->with('departments')->with('roles')->get();
return $this->response->collection($user, new UserTransformer());
And I got the result
"data": {
{
"id": 43,
"name": "test7",
"email": "test7#foxmail.com",
"phone": "186********",
"departments": {
"data": {
{
"id": 1,
"name": "业务一部",
"level": 1,
"parent_id": 0
}
}
},
"roles": {
"data": {
{
"name": "agent",
"slug": "agent",
"description": "业务员",
"level": 1
}
}
}
}
}
Please take note of the usage of $defaultIncludes and includeXXX() methonds in the UserTransformer.You can get more detail info from Fractal Doc.