Laravel XML Support Package

This package comes with the much desired xml support for you Laravel project including middleware to accept only xml requests, http response in xml, and more utilities for xml conversions as well as validation.

Supports: Laravel versions v5.3 and above

Installation

$ composer require bmatovu/laravel-xml

Requests

Get the request content (body).

$request->xml();

* Returns Bmatovu\LaravelXml\Support\XMLElement object.

Determine if the request content type is XML.

$request->isXml();

Determine if the current request is accepting XML.

$request->wantsXml();

Validate XML content

Xml::is_valid($request->xml());

Validation - Against XML Schema Definition

$errors = Xml::validate($request->xml(), 'path_to/sample.xsd');

if ($errors) {
    return response()->xml(['error' => $errors], 422);
}

Responses

Expects an array, convent you're objects to arrays prior...

Route::get('/users', function () {
    $users = App\User::all();
    return response()->xml(['users' => $users->toArray()]);
});

Sample response from above snippet

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<document>
    <users>
        <id>1</id>
        <name>John Doe</name>
        <email>jdoe@example.com</email>
        <created_at>2018-07-12 17:06:13</created_at>
        <updated_at>2018-07-12 18:00:05</updated_at>
    </users>
    <users>
        <id>2</id>
        <name>Gary Plant</name>
        <email>gplant@example.com</email>
        <created_at>2018-07-12 18:02:26</created_at>
        <updated_at>2018-07-13 11:22:44</updated_at>
    </users>
</document>

And will automatically set the content type to xml

Content-Type → text/xml; charset=UTF-8

Middleware

First register the middleware in app\Http\Kernel.php

protected $routeMiddleware = [
    // ...
    'xml' => \Bmatovu\LaravelXml\Http\Middleware\RequireXml::class,
];

Then use the middleware on your routes, or in the controllers.

Route::post('/user/store', function (Request, $request) {
    // do something...
})->middleware('xml');

In case of the request content-type is not xml, the response will be;

[415 - Unsupported Media Type]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<document>
    <error>Only accepting xml content</error>
</document>

Utilities

Encode: Array to Xml

Xml::encode(['key' => 'value']);

Or

xml_encode(['key' => 'value']);

Decode: Xml to Array

Xml::decode('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><document><key>value</key></document>');

Or

xml_decode('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><document><key>value</key></document>');

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Credits

Under the hood, I'm using;

Spatie's array to XML convernsion

Hakre's XML to JSON conversion

Akande's XML validation

Reporting bugs

If you've stumbled across a bug, please help us by leaving as much information about the bug as possible, e.g.

• Steps to reproduce
• Expected result
• Actual result

This will help us to fix the bug as quickly as possible, and if you do wish to fix it yourself; feel free to fork the package on GitHub and submit a pull request!