Reousrce link

Resources can be linked to other resources. There are two types of links: external links ¹, which link external resources, and internal links ², which embed other resources in the resource itself.

Out-bound links

Specify links by rel (relation) and href of the link name. The href can be a regular URI or RFC6570 URI template.

    #[Link rel: 'profile', href: '/profile{?id}']
    public function onGet($id): static
    {
        $this->body = [
            'id' => 10
        ];

        return $this;
    }

In the above example, href is represented by and $body['id'] is assigned to {?id}. The output in HAL format is as follows

{
    "id": 10,
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "/test"
        },
        "profile": {
            "href": "/profile?id=10"
        }
    }
}

Internal links

A resource can embed another resource. Specify the resource in the src of #[Embed].

Internally linked resources may also internally link other resources. In that case, another internally linked resource is needed, and the process is repeated recursively to obtain a resource graph. The client can retrieve the desired set of resources at once without having to fetch the resources multiple times. ³ For example, instead of calling a customer resource and a product resource respectively, embed them both in an order resource.

use BEAR\Resource\Annotation\Embed;

class News extends ResourceObject
{
    #[Embed(rel: 'sports', src: '/news/sports')]
    #[Embed(rel: 'weather', src: '/news/weather')]
    public function onGet(): static

It is the resource request that is embedded. It is executed at rendering time, but before that you can add arguments with the addQuery() method or replace them with withQuery().

A URI template can be used for the src, and request method arguments will be bound to it. (Unlike external links, it is not $body)

use BEAR\Resource\Annotation\Embed;

class News extends ResourceObject
{
    #[Embed(rel: 'website', src: '/website{?id}']
    public function onGet(string $id): static
    {
        // ...
        $this->body['website']->addQuery(['title' => $title]); // 引数追加

Self linking

Linking a relation as _self in #[Embed] copies the linked resource state to its own resource state.

namespace MyVendor\Weekday\ResourcePage;.

class Weekday extends ResourceObject
{
#[Embed(rel: '_self', src: 'app://self/weekday{?year,month,day}'])
public function onGet(string $id): static
{

In this example, the Page resource copies the state of the weekday resource of the App resource to itself.

Internal links in HAL

Handled as _embedded in the HAL renderer.

Link request

Clients can link resources connected by hyperlinks.

$blog = $this
    ->resource
    ->get
    ->uri('app://self/user')
    ->withQuery(['id' => 1])
    ->linkSelf("blog")
    ->eager
    ->request()
    ->body;

There are three types of links. The body linked resource of the original resource is embedded using $rel as the key.

• linkSelf($rel) which will be replaced with the link destination.
• linkNew($rel) the linked resource is added to the original resource
• linkCrawl($rel) crawl the link and create a resource graph.

crawl

Crawls are lists (arrays) of resources, and links can be traversed in sequence to compose complex resource graphs. Just as a crawler crawls a web page, the resource client crawls hyperlinks and generates a source graph.

Crawl Example

Consider a resource graph with author, post, meta, tag, and tag/name associated with each. Name this resource graph post-tree and specify a hyperreference href in the `#[Link]’ attribute of each resource.

The first starting point, the author resource, has a hyperlink to the post resource. 1:n relationship.

#[Link(crawl: "post-tree", rel: "post", href: "app://self/post?author_id={id}")]
public function onGet($id = null)

The post resource has hyperlinks to the meta and tag resources. 1:n relationship.

#[Link(crawl: "post-tree", rel: "meta", href: "app://self/meta?post_id={id}")]
#[Link(crawl: "post-tree", rel: "tag", href: "app://self/tag?post_id={id}")]
public function onGet($author_id)
{

A tag resource is just an ID with a hyperlink to the corresponding tag/name resource. 1:1 relationship.

#[Link(crawl:"post-tree", rel:"tag_name", href:"app://self/tag/name?tag_id={tag_id}")]
public function onGet($post_id)

Each is now connected. Request with a crawl name.

$graph = $resource
  ->get
  ->uri('app://self/marshal/author')
  ->linkCrawl('post-tree')
  ->eager
  ->request();

When a resource client finds a crawl name specified in the #[Link] attribute, it creates a resource graph by connecting resources by their rel names.

var_export($graph->body);

array (
    0 =>
    array (
        'name' => 'Athos',
        'post' =>
        array (
            0 =>
            array (
                'author_id' => '1',
                'body' => 'Anna post #1',
                'meta' =>
                array (
                    0 =>
                    array (
                        'data' => 'meta 1',
                    ),
                ),
                'tag' =>
                array (
                    0 =>
                    array (
                        'tag_name' =>
                        array (
                            0 =>
                            array (
                                'name' => 'zim',
                            ),
                        ),
                    ),
 ...