Jump Gate

Helper Classes

---

• Controller
• Response
• Route
• Seeder
• Transformer

Controller

The JumpGate BaseController class adds a lot of extra functionality to help with common tasks. To use it you should have your Controller class (the one all of your other controllers extend) extend JumpGate\Core\Http\Controllers\BaseController. In a standard jumpgate application, App\Http\Controllers\BaseController already extends this, so you can extend that class instead.

Helper Methods

setViewData()

This method allows you to pass data to the view. It accepts either a key/value pair of parameters or it will accept PHP’s compact() function.

$this->setViewData('user', User::find($userId);
$this->setViewData(compact('user'));

{primary} Both of these will send a variable named $user to the view.

setJavascriptData

This method allows you to pass data directly to javascript. It accepts either a key/value pair of parameters or it will accept PHP’s compact() function. You can access this in your javascript by using your set namespace followed by the variable name.

{primary} You can set your namespace in app/config/javascript.php or in you .env file using the key JS_NAMESPACE. It is app by default.

In your controller:

$this->setJavascriptData('user', User::find($userId);
$this->setJavascriptData(compact('user'));

{primary} All of these will send a variable named js_namespace.user to javascript.

In your javascript:

let user = js_namespace.user

Response

The JumpGate\Core\Services\Response class is meant to make handling responses in your app much easier. This is used throughout our packages, but below is an example from JumpGate\Users\Services\Login.

private function handleSuccessfulLogin()
{
    event(new UserLoggedIn(auth()->user()));
    
    // Update the user with the log in details.
    auth()->user()->updateLogin();
    
    return Response::passed('You have been logged in.')
                   ->route('home');
}

In this method, we fire an event that the user has logged in and update the timestamp for the user’s last login. Then we use the response class to handle the message. We initialize the response as a passing/successful response and give it the message to flash to screen. We then tell it where it should redirect to. When a controller returns a response object it can then call redirect() to send the user to the specified route or redirectIntended().

{info} You can also use redirectIntended() to use the route a user was trying to access first.

Route

{info} You can learn more about class based routing in their docs

The JumpGate\Core\Http\Routes\BaseRoute class is used when you make a class route. All your class routes should extend this base class as it has all the methods the contract expects. It defines the different parts a route group can contain and getters and setters for them all.

Seeder

Have your seeds in database/seeds/ extend JumpGate\Core\Abstracts\Seeder. This class adds a method called truncate() that will truncate any table regardless of indexes.

Transformer

The JumpGate\Core\Abstracts\Transformer class will enforce a contract on your transformer that it must contain a transform() method. It will also give you access to the transformAll($resources) method that will transform all items in $resources and place them in a collection.

This site is open source. Improve this page.