Marco "Ocramius" Pivetta

Valinor is a must-have library for #PHP + PSR-15 based development.

It lives at the edge of your graph, between user input and your DTOs, and runs circles around all other (de-)serialization libraries out there: it's just built with @phpstan / @psalm types at its core, reducing mapping code massively, keeping type safety central.

Glad to see this getting a new major release!

https://mastodon.social/@Romm/114754020085694743

See also
https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/

Parse, don’t validate

Jun 27 at 8:23amWeb
Show threadpieceofthepie Jun 27

@ocramius @phpstan @psalm

I've not used valinor but did end up going with another object hydrator because it used attributes to markup DTO properties instead of annotations.

I'm not sure it's that big of a deal but really that should be the default now right?

Show threadMarco "Ocramius" PivettaJun 27

@pieceofthepie valinor does not use annotation nor attributes: only type inference :-)

You can use attributes, but I would discourage that.

Show threadpieceofthepie Jun 27
@ocramius oh, the type reference docs page suggests otherwise?
Show threadMarco "Ocramius" PivettaJun 27

@pieceofthepie ah, just a misunderstanding in what we define as annotations.

* `@ validate("some-rule")` would be an annotation
* `#[Validate("some-rule")]` would be an attribute
* `@ param list<int<5, 25>>` is a type declaration (not an annotation)

Show threadMarcus BointonJun 27
@ocramius @phpstan @psalm I’d be interested in seeing how that compares to spatie/laravel-data
Show threadMarco "Ocramius" PivettaJun 27
@Synchro @phpstan @psalm I find laravel-data completely unusable: actually put a strong veto on its introduction in a codebase a couple months ago, as it pushes for god object design.
Show threadAlerta! Alerta!Jun 27

@ocramius @Synchro @phpstan @psalm what a difference an "o" makes... 🙈

I initially read "good object design" and was scratching my head. Until I reread.... 🤣

Show threadMarcus BointonJun 27
@ocramius @phpstan @psalm OK, I found LD really quick and easy to use (could do almost everything by adding attributes, no code needed), but don't need the ties to Laravel. But I'm having trouble understanding Valinor, seems much more complex...
Show threadMarco "Ocramius" PivettaJun 27

@Synchro @phpstan @psalm it's waaaaaaay simpler: you want a T, you get a T 😋

Your objects just have to have well formed constructors