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danack/datatype
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A library that makes using data types easier

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DataType
========

[](#datatype)

A library for validating input and creating types.

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Installation
============

[](#installation)

`composer require danack/datatype`

Example usage
=============

[](#example-usage)

The full documentation is in [DOCS.md](DOCS.md), but here is an example usage.

In your controller, you would have some code to create the type. e.g. for Symfony you would have something like:

```
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\JsonResponse;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

class SearchController
{
    public function index(Request $request, SearchRepo $searchRepo): JsonResponse
    {
        $searchParams = SearchParams::createFromRequest($request);

        $data = $searchRepo->search($searchParams);

        return $this->json($data);
    }
}
```

In your code you would have a data type that represents a particular concept, e.g. the search parameter used in the API:

```
class SearchParameters implements DataType
{
    use CreateFromRequest;
    use CreateFromVarMap;
    use GetInputTypesFromAttributes;

    public function __construct(
        #[SearchTerm('search')]
        public string $phrase,

        #[MaxItems('limit')]
        public int $limit,

        #[ArticleSearchOrdering('order')]
        public Ordering $ordering,
    ) {
    }
}
```

And each of the elements in the 'search parameters' would have their own rule based based details:

```