2 years ago

Working with third-party APIs can be frustrating; we get JSON responses which in PHP will be represented as a plain old array - and we send data as arrays too. What if I told you that it doesn’t take much effort to build something that will add more context and improve your work with third-party APIs?

declare(strict_types=1); namespace App\Services\MedicalTrust\Resources; use Illuminate\Http\Client\Response; class DentalResource { public function __construct( private readonly MedicalTrustService $service, ) {} public function list(string $identifier): Response { return $this->service->get( request: $this->service->buildRequestWithToken(), url: "/dental/{$identifier}/records", ); } public function addRecord(string $identifier, array $data = []): Response { return $this->service->post( request: $this->service->buildRequestWithToken(), url: "/dental/{$identifier}/records", payload: $data, ); }}

Let’s have a look at how an object like Crowns might look: app/Services/MedicalTrust/DataObjects/Crowns.php declare(strict_types=1); namespace App\Services\MedicalTrust\DataObjects; use Illuminate\Support\Collection; class Crowns { public function __construct( public Collection $treatments, ) {} public function toArray(): array { return $this->treatments->map(fn (DentalTreatment $treatment) => $treatment->toArray(), )->toArray(); }}

Firstly let’s create the data object for the request:app/Services/MedicalTrust/Requests/NewDentalTreatment.php declare(strict_types=1); namespace App\Services\MedicalTrust\Requests; class NewDentalTreatment { public function __construct( public readonly string $type, public readonly string $material, public readonly string $location, public readonly Carbon $implemented, ) {} public function toArray(): array { return [ 'type' => $this->type, 'material' => $this->material, 'location' => $this->location, 'implemented' => Carbon::now()->toDateString(), ]; }}