Laravel – Calling API connections - php

Question

Repeated Calls – Lets say you need your Application to talk to an API and you're using guzzle or a wrapper or whatever. I find myself having to call the connection in every controller function e.g:
class ExampleController extends Controller
{
public function one()
{
$client = new Client();
$response = $client->get('http://',
[ 'query' => [ 'secret' => env('SECRET')]]);
$json = json_decode($response->getBody());
$data = $json->object;
// do stuff
}
public function two()
{
$client = new Client();
$response = $client->get('http://',
[ 'query' => [ 'secret' => env('SECRET')]]);
$json = json_decode($response->getBody());
$data = $json->object;
// do stuff
}
}
How do I better handle this? Do I use a service Provider? if so, how would I best implement these calls? Should I create another controller and call all my API connections in each function and then include that controller and call upon each function as required? Should I place it in a __construct?

Answer 1

lets try the Dependency inversion principle
Ok this might sound a bit hard at first and my code might have some typos or minor mistakes but try this
You need to create the interface
namespace app\puttherightnamespace; // this deppends on you
interface ExempleRepositoryInterface
{
public function getquery(); // if you passinga variable -> public function getquery('variable1');
}
Now you have to create the repo
class ExempleRepository implements ExempleRepositoryInterface {
public function getquery() {
$client = new Client();
$response = $client->get('http://',
[ 'query' => [ 'secret' => env('SECRET')]]);
$json = json_decode($response->getBody());
return $json->object;
}
Now last step is to bind the interface to the repo in a service provider register method
public function register()
{
$this->app->bind('namespacehere\ExempleRepositoryInterface', 'namespacehere\ExempleRepository');
}
Now everytime you need the result in a controller all you have to do is to ineject
class ExempleController extends Controller {
private $exemple;
public function __construct(ExempleRepositoryInterface $home) {
$this->exemple = $exemple;
}
public function test() {
$data = $this->exemple->getquery(); / you can pass a variable here if you want like this $this->exemple->getquery('variable');
// do stuff
}
this is not the simplest way but this is the best way i guess