Json Api Laravel Package

• Added BaseQueryParser::getIncludes method for easier usage with Encoder::withIncludedPaths (#243)

Overall, versions 3 and 4 are nearly identical and the main changes were made in SchemaInterface. An extra parameter ContextInterface was added to SchemaInterface::getAttributes and SchemaInterface::getRelationships.

The context contains extra information about the resource such as its position in the data tree and encoder options such as filter fieldset and included paths. The context might be used for smarter loading resources from a database.

More in Upgrade Notes.

Improved/fixed setting up include paths #238

• Fixed usage of Identifiers in arrays (e.g. to-many and belongs-to-many relationships) #235.

• Improved extensibility. Thanks to @66mm added a sample of how to add wildcards support to include paths. #231

• Added extra checks for data returned from user's Schemas. If the returned data are not convertible to JSON it will cause an error with detailed information where the developer should fix the issue. #230

Thanks to contributions and ideas from @PabloKowalczyk performance increased for 10%+ #227 #228

• Added support for upcoming JSON API v1.1;
• Increased performance * (2,3X faster for small data sets with only a few resources and 5,4X faster for big data sets between v2 and v3);
• Added some improvements and fixes #218, #221, #223, #224

• Added #223
• Fixed #224

• An extra check is added for data from Schema's getRelationships to be compliant with the spec #217

• Added support for resources that might behave like arrays/collections (e.g. Yii CModel) #214

• Improved error messages #209

• BaseQueryParser refactored into PHP trait for better flexibility #204
• Error improved for easier conversion and encoding of custom errors/exceptions to JSON API Errors #206

• Fixed: Overriding Schema default include paths with empty list via EncodingParameters do not work #203

• Improved compatibility with data structures for PHP 7 extension library (C language) #202

• Improved detection of invalid data coming from developer's Schemas #199
• Fixed a bug with incorrect relationships inclusion. For example, if inclusion for comments is requested it will also include relationships comment, commen, comme, ..., and c #200

• Improved detection of invalid data coming from developer's Schemas #199
• Fixed a bug with incorrect relationships inclusion. For example, if inclusion for comments is requested it will also include relationships comment, commen, comme, ..., and c #200

• PHP strong types were added to all applicable interface and class methods.
• Code optimizations.
• New HTTP header and query parameter parsers.
• Removed deprecated (JSON API extensions, codec matcher).

Upgrade notes

• Improved compatibility with PHP 7.2 #189

• Fixed #188

• Micro-optimization #186
• Design tweaks #187

• Content-Type header will not be added to Responses without content #184
• Improved error handling for HTTP header and HTTP query parsers #185

• Added a helper method to ErrorCollection to indicate issues with attributes field #181

• Removed unnecessary requirements to headers for requests with no content/body #178.

• #177

• Added support for encoding newly created objects (without ID). The resulting JSON will not have id property #175