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martinezdelariva/hydrator
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Hydrate and extract functions made simple. Ideally for flat or primitive data.

v1.0(8y ago)423.7k↓44.1%2MITPHPPHP >=7.1

Since Nov 29Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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Hydrator
========

[](#hydrator)

Hydrate and extract functions made simple. Ideally for flat objects or primitive data.

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

[](#installation)

Install it using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/)

```
composer require martinezdelariva/hydrator

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Having the following class:

```
    class Person
    {
        private $name;
        private $age;
        private $hobbies = [];
        private $student = false;

        public function __construct(string $name, int $age, array $hobbies, bool $student)
        {
            $this->name     = $name;
            $this->age      = $age;
            $this->hobbies  = $hobbies;
            $this->student  = $student;
        }
    }
```

Extraction:

```
    use function Martinezdelariva\Hydrator\extract;

    $person = new Person("John", 29, ["soccer", "reading"], true);
    extract($person);

    // array (
    //   'name'    => 'John',
    //   'age'     => 29,
    //   'hobbies' => array (
    //       0 => 'soccer',
    //       1 => 'reading',
    //   ),
    //   'student' => true,
    // )
```

Hydration:

```
    use function Martinezdelariva\Hydrator\hydrate;

    $values = [
        "name"    => "Maria",
        "age"     => 30,
        "hobbies" => ["swimming", "coding"],
    ];
    $person = hydrate(Person::class, $values);

    // object(Person)#48 (4) {
    //   ["name":"Person":private] => string(5) "Maria"
    //   ["age":"Person":private]  => int(30)
    //   ["hobbies":Person":private]=>
    //       array(2) {
    //         [0]=>
    //         string(8) "swimming"
    //         [1]=>
    //         string(6) "coding"
    //       }
    //   ["student":"Person":private] => bool(false)
```

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity30

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

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

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

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

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3092d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1567749?v=4)[José Luis Martínez de la Riva Manzano](/maintainers/martinezdelariva)[@martinezdelariva](https://github.com/martinezdelariva)

---

Top Contributors

[![martinezdelariva](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1567749?v=4)](https://github.com/martinezdelariva "martinezdelariva (7 commits)")

---

Tags

hydrationhydratorserializationserializerserializeserializationhydratorhydration

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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