Laravel Rest Sdk Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Build vs. buy for the content delivery layer. This SDK is the Laravel-native client for the Prepr content API. Choosing it replaces a bespoke HTTP/GraphQL client (auth, retries, paging, caching, uploads) with a maintained dependency — a decision that should be made on maintenance cost and time-to-market, not raw feature parity.
• Content-driven feature delivery. Supports features where marketing/editorial content must ship without a deploy: landing pages, localized copy, personalization and experiment variants, multi-channel (web/app) content. Relevant to roadmap items gated on content velocity rather than engineering capacity.
• Performance and cost envelope. The PREPR_CACHE fix means response caching is now safe to enable in production: GET responses are stored as status + body and rebuilt on hit, and legacy/corrupt payloads are ignored rather than throwing. That converts caching from "risky optimization" into a first-class latency and API-quota/cost lever — a decision previously blocked by a known TypeError.
• Platform upgrade sequencing. v5 supports Laravel 12 and 13 only (PHP 8.2+). Adoption is now coupled to the framework upgrade track: teams still on Laravel 10/11 must either upgrade Laravel or pin to the v4 line. This is a roadmap dependency, not a library detail.
• Integration risk / quality signal. The new Testbench suite (requests, paths, cache parity, auto-paging, uploads, connections, facade) raises confidence in the surface area we'd depend on, and lowers the expected cost of debugging integration issues in our own code.
• Vendor concentration and exit cost. Committing to Prepr via a vendor SDK increases switching cost; the assessment should record it as a tracked dependency with an exit path (thin wrapper/adapter layer) rather than an irreversible choice.

When to Consider This Package

Adopt when most of the following hold:

• The application is on Laravel 12 or 13 with PHP 8.2+, or the Laravel upgrade is already on the roadmap.
• Prepr is the selected content platform, or is a finalist in a CMS evaluation and we want to prototype the integration cheaply.
• You need content in the Laravel idiom — service container binding, facade, config-driven setup, auto-paging, uploads — rather than hand-rolling API calls per feature team.
• You want production caching of content responses but not to own the cache-invalidation and serialization logic yourself.

Look elsewhere or defer when:

• You are on Laravel 10/11 or PHP < 8.2 — v5 will not install; plan an upgrade or stay on the previous major with a documented end-of-support risk.
• Prepr has not been selected; do not let an SDK decision drive the platform decision.
• You need an editorial UI, workflow, or governance — this is an SDK, not a CMS; that is Prepr's product surface, not this package's.
• Your content needs are small and static (a handful of fields, low change frequency); a config file or a thin custom client is cheaper than a new vendor relationship.
• You require formal LTS, SLA, or security-patch guarantees — confirm the vendor's support policy explicitly rather than inferring it from release cadence.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

To executives: This package is the integration layer between our Laravel application and the Prepr content platform. It lets marketing and content teams ship and personalize content without engineering releases, and replaces custom API plumbing we would otherwise build and maintain ourselves. The new major version requires us to be on Laravel 12/13 (PHP 8.2+) — a framework upgrade we should sequence deliberately — and it fixes a caching defect that previously made production caching unsafe, which directly reduces response latency and third-party API usage. Risk is bounded to a single vendor dependency, which we mitigate by keeping our integration behind a thin internal interface.

To engineering: v5 is the supported line going forward — Laravel 12/13, PHP 8.2+. There is no migration work beyond the constraint bump (composer require preprio/laravel-rest-sdk:"^5.0"), but the framework floor is a hard gate. The caching path is now correct: responses are cached as status + body and reconstructed on hit, with corrupt/legacy payloads ignored rather than throwing, so enabling PREPR_CACHE in production is a legitimate performance decision rather than a known landmine. The package now carries a Testbench suite across requests, paths, cache parity, auto-paging, uploads, connections, and the facade, so our confidence rests on their tests plus our own integration tests — we should still add contract tests around the endpoints we actually use, and wrap the facade so a future major version or vendor change is a contained change rather than a codebase-wide one.