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shalvah/laravel-jsend
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Laravel helpers to easily send JSend-compliant responses

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laravel-jsend
=============

[](#laravel-jsend)

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Simple helpers to generate [JSend-compliant](https://labs.omniti.com/labs/jsend) responses for your Laravel app

The [JSend specification](https://labs.omniti.com/labs/jsend) lays down some rules for how JSON responses from web servers should be formatted. JSend is especially suited for REST-style applications and APIs.

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

[](#installation)

Laravel 7 and above:

```
composer require shalvah/laravel-jsend
```

Laravel 5.1 - 6.\*:

```
composer require shalvah/laravel-jsend:^1.0
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

In your controller:

```
public function create(Request $request)
{
  $userData = $request->input('data');
  if (empty($userData['email']))
      return jsend_fail(['email' => 'Email is required']);

  try {
      $user = User::create($userData):
      return jsend_success($user);
  } catch (Exception $e) {
      return jsend_error('Unable to create user: '.$e->getMessage());
  }
}
```

You can also add the `JsendExceptionFormatter` trait in `App\Exceptions\Handler` to format JSON responses for unhandled exceptions and Laravel validation errors as JSend:

```
class Handler extends ExceptionHandler
{
    use Shalvah\LaravelJsend\JsendExceptionFormatter;

    // ...
}
```

Available helpers
-----------------

[](#available-helpers)

### `jsend_success`

[](#jsend_success)

The `jsend_success` function creates a JSend **success** response instance.

```
return jsend_success([
  "id" => 2,
  "title" => "New life",
  "body" => "Trust me, this is great!"
]);
```

Generates a response:

```
{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "id": 2,
    "title": "New life",
    "body": "Trust me, this is great!"
  }
}
```

You may pass an Eloquent model instead of an array as the "data" object:

```
$post = Post::find($id);
return jsend_success($post);
```

### `jsend_fail`

[](#jsend_fail)

The `jsend_fail` function creates a JSend **fail** response instance.

```
return jsend_fail([
    "title" => "title is required",
    "body" => "body must be 50 - 10000 words"
]);
```

Generates a response:

```
{
  "status": "fail",
  "data": {
    "title": "title is required",
    "body": "body must be 50 - 10000 words"
  }
}
```

### `jsend_error`

[](#jsend_error)

The `jsend_error` function creates a JSend **error** response instance.

```
return jsend_error("Unable to connect to database");
```

Generates a response:

```
{
  "status": "error",
  "message":"Unable to connect to database"
}
```

You may also pass optional `code` and `data` objects.

```
return jsend_error("Unable to connect to database", 'E0001', ['type' => 'database error']);
```

Generates a response:

```
{
  "status": "error",
  "message":"Unable to connect to database",
  "code": "E001",
  "data": {
    "type": "database error"
  }
}
```

> Note: for each helper, the HTTP status codes are set automatically (to 200, 400, and 500 for `success`, `fail`, and `error` respectively), and the header `Content-type: application/json` is set. If you wish, you may specify a HTTP status code and additional headers as the last two parameters.

```
return jsend_success($post, 201, ["X-My-Header" => "header value"]);
return jsend_fail(["location_id" => "Location not found"], 404);
return jsend_error("Unable to connect to database", 'E0001', [], 503, ["X-My-Header" => "header value"]);
```

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity46

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community23

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 72.7% 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 ~192 days

Recently: every ~253 days

Total

12

Last Release

1138d ago

Major Versions

1.4 → 2.02020-06-25

1.5 → 2.12020-09-23

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0PHP >=5.6.4

2.0PHP >=7.2.5

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

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