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vollborn/laravel-request-cast
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Allows to cast request values into their supposed types

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Laravel Request Cast
====================

[](#laravel-request-cast)

Laravel Request Cast is a small package to cast Laravels request values into their supposed types.

For example: If you build an API and validate a request parameter as int, the value attached to the request object can still be a string. It only validates the content, but does not change its data type.

This JSON body would resolute as a string in your controller, because it is a string in the request itself too:

```
{
    "integer": "1251"
}
```

This package aims to fix this inconvenience. The same request will resolute as an int in your controller, if used correctly.

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

[](#installation)

This package is available at composer. To install it, run:

```
composer require vollborn/laravel-request-cast

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

There are two ways of using this package.
You can either...

1. Use it as an extended class
2. or as a trait if you need to extend something else.

Both will work the same way, they are just different writing styles.

### Using a parent class

[](#using-a-parent-class)

This is Laravel's default request.

```
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;

class TestRequest extends FormRequest
{
    ...
```

Once we change the extended class, we should be up and running!

```
use Vollborn\LaravelRequestCast\Classes\CastedRequest;

class TestRequest extends CastedRequest
{
    ...
```

### Using a trait

[](#using-a-trait)

Simply add the "Casts" trait to your request.
That should be it.

```
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
use Vollborn\LaravelRequestCast\Traits\Casts;

class TestRequest extends FormRequest
{
    use Casts;
    ...
```

### Casting values

[](#casting-values)

Casting values is pretty easy. You just need to add the "casts" function to your request, just like the "rules" function:

```