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goomcoom/laravel-messages
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Sometimes you may wish to return responses with some extra messages informing the user of what happened. This package provides a fluent interface to add messages from anywhere within in your code base and gracefully add them to your JSON responses.

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Laravel Messages
================

[](#laravel-messages)

Sometimes you may wish to return responses with some extra messages informing the user of what happened. This package provides a fluent interface to add messages from anywhere within in your code base and gracefully add them to your JSON responses.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Install the package using composer.

```
$ composer require goomcoom/laravel-messages
```

The service provider and facade are registered automatically, but you may do so manually by adding them to the app config.

```
// config/app.php

[
    'providers' => [
        // ...
        GoomCoom\Messages\MessagesServiceProvider::class,
    ],

    'aliases' => [
        // ...
        'Messages' => GoomCoom\Messages\Facades\Messages::class,
    ],
];
```

Config
------

[](#config)

To publish the config file you may use the following command

```
$ php artisan vendor:publish --tag=goomcoom-laravel-messages
```

The config file holds the bags that are available for accepting messages which are fully customizable.

```
// config/goomcoom-laravel-messages.php

return [
    /**
     * –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
     * Bags
     * –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
     * These are the bags that messages can be added to.
     */

    'bags' => [
        'error',
        'info',
        'success',
        'warning',
    ],
];
```

Adding messages to responses
----------------------------

[](#adding-messages-to-responses)

If you would like the messages to the added to the response automatically, you may use the `AddMessagesToResponse`middleware. The middleware checks if there are any messages and adds them to the response's meta content. For information on using middleware please refer to the official [documentation](https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/middleware).

```
// The messages are added to the response's meta object

{
    data: {
        ...
    },
    meta: {
        ...
        messages: {
            error: [
                'Resource 532 was not updated',
            ],
            info: [
                'We did something you might not have expected'
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

The middleware also checks if the response has a message property and appends the message to the `meta.messages.error` array.

```
// The response message is appended to the error messages array

{
    message: 'Somethig went wrong.',
    meta: {
        messages: {
            error: [
                'Resource 532 was not updated',
                'Something went wrong.'
            ],
        }
    }
}

```

### Adding messages

[](#adding-messages)

The first argument is the message bag that the messages are meant to be added to. We use the splat operator to gather messages, so you may add multiple comma-separated messages at once.

```
    Messages::add('error', 'Cannot do that!', 'Something went wrong.');
    Messages::add('info', 'Something else happened.');

    /*
        {
            ...
            meta: {
                messages: {
                    error: [
                        'Cannot do that!',
                        'Something went wrong.'
                    ],
                    info: [
                        'Something else happened.'
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    */
```

It's worth noting that messages are not duplicated within a category.

### Getting a bag

[](#getting-a-bag)

The package uses laravel's [MessageBag](https://laravel.com/api/7.x/Illuminate/Support/MessageBag.html) class to categorise the messages. You may retrieve a specific bag using the `getBag` method.

```
// Returns Illuminate/Support/MessageBag with "warning" messages
Messages::getBag('warning');
```

### Getting all messages

[](#getting-all-messages)

You may also retrieve all the messages as an associative array with the messages grouped by their category by using the `getAll` method.

```
Messages::getAll();

/*
    [
        'error' => [ ... ],
        'info' => [ ... ],
        'success' => [ ... ],
        'warning' => [ ... ],
    ]
*/
```

### Checking if any messages have been added

[](#checking-if-any-messages-have-been-added)

You may check if any messages have been added by using the `hasAny` method.

```
// Returns boolean
Messages::hasAny();
```

### Removing messages

[](#removing-messages)

You may remove messages from a specific bag by using the `remove` method.

```
// Removes all messages from the success bag.
Messages::remove('success', '*');

// Removes the "To be removed" & "Also to be removed" messages from the error bag'
Messages::remove('error', 'To be removed', 'Also to be removed');
```

### Resetting all message bags

[](#resetting-all-message-bags)

You may reset all message bags by calling the `reset` method.

```
// Removes all messages
Messages::reset();
```

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

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###  Release Activity

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Total

1

Last Release

2156d ago

### Community

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