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ndapio/rest-helper
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A library that supports communication with REST API

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REST Helper
-----------

[](#rest-helper)

A library that supports communication with REST API. This library can speed up your development with REST API and make it easier to troubleshoot.

- Built-in code base to interact with Guzzle to call REST API.
- Built-in code to support Guzzle request under HTTP/HTTPS proxy.
- Built-in code to get responded cookies.
- Built-in code for common authentication method: username & password or access token
- Built-in code to support form params, JSON data, XML data

Guide and sample
----------------

[](#guide-and-sample)

You can extend the RestApi class to use in your project.

Example:

```

```

> **Note:** There are more samples in **sample** folder

Response
--------

[](#response)

Success response:

```
array(
  "status" => "success",
  "time" => $timestamp,
  "code" => $code,
  "cookies" => $cookies,
  "response" => $response_data_parsed // depend on the data_type input
);

```

Error response:

```
$response = array(
  "status" => "error",
  "time" => $timestamp,
  "code" => $code // 401, 403, 500, ...
);

```

Exception response:

```
array(
  "status" => "exception",
  "code" => 000,
  "time" => $timestamp,
  "response" => array(
      "message" => $exception_message,
      "action" => $action,
      "headers" => $headers,
      "params" => $params,
      "proxy" => $proxy
  )
);

```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity52

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

Every ~223 days

Total

4

Last Release

881d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

responserequestrestGuzzle

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