Value Object Laravel Package

What's Changed

• Add test for "Cannot use positional argument after named argument during unpacking" error by @Kehet in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/302
• Fix positional after named by @aidan-casey in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/304

New Contributors

• @Kehet made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/302

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/compare/3.9.0...3.9.1

What's Changed

• allow enum casting not only enum value casting by @regnerisch in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/301

New Contributors

• @regnerisch made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/301

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/compare/3.8.1...3.9.0

What's Changed

• Fixed bug #249 by @gerpo in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/251

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/compare/3.8.0...3.8.1

What's Changed

• Added enum caster by @Elnadrion in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/277

New Contributors

• @Raja-Omer-Mustafa made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/271
• @Elnadrion made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/277

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/compare/3.7.3...3.8.0

• #[Strict] is passed down the inheritance chain so children are strict when parent is strict (#239)

• Cast properties with self or parent type (#236)

• Add #[MapTo] support (#233)

• Correct behavior of Arr::forget with dot keys (#231)

• Fix array assignment bug with strict dto's (#225)

• Support mapped properties (#224)

• Support union types in casters (#210)

• Fix for an empty value being created when casting ArrayAccess objects (#216)
• Add logic exception when attempting to cast ArrayAccess objects that are not traversable (#216)
• Allow the ArrayCaster to retain values that are already instances of the itemType (#217)

• Expose DTO and validation error array in ValidationException (#213)

• Support generic casters (#199)
• Add ArrayCaster
• Add casting of objects that implement ArrayAccess to the ArrayCaster (#206)
• Fix for caster subclass check (#204)

• Make DefaultCast repeatable (#202)

• Add DataTransferObject::clone(...$args)

• Support union types (#185)
• Resolve default cast from parent classes (#189)
• Support default values (#191)

• Fix when nested DTO have casted field (#178)

• Allow valid DTOs to be passed to caster (#177)

• Fix for null values with casters

This package now focuses only on object creation by adding easy-to-use casting and data validation functionality. All runtime type checks are gone in favour of the improved type system in PHP 8.

• Require php:^8.0
• Removed all runtime type checking functionality, you should use typed properties and a static analysis tool like Psalm or PhpStan
• Removed Spatie\DataTransferObject\DataTransferObjectCollection
• Removed Spatie\DataTransferObject\FlexibleDataTransferObject, all DTOs are now considered flexible
• Removed runtime immutable DTOs, you should use static analysis instead
• Added Spatie\DataTransferObject\Validator
• Added Spatie\DataTransferObject\Validation\ValidationResult
• Added #[DefaultCast]
• Added #[CastWith]
• Added Spatie\DataTransferObject\Caster
• Added #[Strict]

• Add support for using collection internally

This might be a breaking change, but it was required for a bugfix

• Prevent DataTransferObjectCollection from iterating over array copy (#166)

• Fix for incorrect return type (#164)

• Allow the traversal of collections with string keys

• Cast nested collections (#117)

• Support PHP 8

• Group type errors (#130)

• Support for array<int, string> syntax (#136)

• Add PHPStan extension to support checkUninitializedProperties: true (#135)

• Validator for typed 7.4 properties (#109)

• Add support for typed properties to DTO casting in PHP 7.4

• Bump minimum required PHP version to 7.4
• Support for nested immutable DTOs (#86)

• Ignore static properties when serializing (#88)

• DataTransferObjectError::invalidType : get actual type before mutating $value for the error message (#81)

• Improve extendability of DTOs (#80)

• Ignore static properties (#82)
• Add DataTransferObject::arrayOf (#83)

• Improved performance by adding a cache (#79)
• Add FlexibleDataTransferObject which allows for unknown properties to be ignored

• Add iterable and iterable<\Type> support

• Allow a DTO to be constructed without an array (#68)

• Improve type error message

• Add DataTransferObjectCollection::items()

• Support immutability

• Fixes #47, allowing empty dto's to be cast to using an empty array.

• Nested array DTO casting supported.

• Properly support float.

• Fix uninitialised error with default value.

• Don't use allValues anymore.

• Support nested collections in collections
• Cleanup code

• Remove too much magic in nested array casting

• Support nested toArray in collections.

• Support nested toArray.

• Add strict type declarations

• Add auto casting of nested DTOs

• Rename to data-transfer-object

• Add uninitialized errors.

• Support instanceof on interfaces when type checking

• proper support for collections of value objects

• initial release

• Stop suggesting phpstan/phpstan by @ymilin in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/264

• @sergiy-petrov made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/246
• @damms005 made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/255
• @ymilin made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/pull/264

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object/compare/3.7.2...3.7.3