Valinor VS data-transfer-object

cuyz/valinor: PHP library that helps to map any input into a strongly-typed value object structure.

I know there are alternatives like Valinor (https://github.com/CuyZ/Valinor)

For the next major version, i'm considering giving the option to use valinor (or anything else) instead of the Serializer component in the next major version. If you have more ideas, let me know.

You can check the repository on GitHub; there is also a documentation website.

See also: Valinor https://github.com/CuyZ/Valinor which does some of what you want, albeit in a more verbose fashion, but without polluting your objects.

Speaking of… https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object is dead, does doctrine offer similar functionality?

Once you are confident in the argument types, add them to the methods. If there are too many, create a Data Transfer Object. Also add method return types.

The benefits of using DTOs are numerous, there's even a package from Spatie for them. See the package's release post and this awesome DTO explanation for a more in-depth take and how to implement and use them in a more sensible way.

I opted to use Spatie's DTO package and a bit of additional custom code for easy casting. I decided to map each JSON column to its own DTO, so I created two classes for land and for army.

When possible, I surely will try using the spatie/data-transfer-object with attributes to see if I like it.

Open Source projects using this Action. Mostly my own projects, as I just released the Action. However, Spatie, a huge contributor to open source PHP packages recently added the workflow to their PHP package template; which makes me super proud ♥️

This spatie lib looks neat too, though it might not be all that static analysis friendly. I guess this doesn't save you from having two classes with the same properties. Seems like it could be worth a shot. Short of inventing a code generation tool I don't know how much better I can do.