Adding only and except methods

[agentphoenix]

Really enjoying this library! I'd like to use it to replace my DTOs, but I'm finding that I'm missing the only and except methods that your DTO package has.

// Currently doing this...
Arr::except($data->all(), 'field');

// Would love to be able to do this instead...
$data->except('field')->toArray();

I see that there are include and exclude methods, but it's not clear if that's meant for the same thing in this package.

Would you guys be open to a PR adding the only and except methods into the package?

[freekmurze]

I think it makes sense to add such methods.

What do you think @rubenvanassche ?

[IsraelOrtuno]

I was kind of looking for the same, I guess a UserData may have a password property but it won't ever be returned by any resource. Is there a way to do this as of now?

[IsraelOrtuno]

Or may even make sense to have a UserResource class which does the exclusion for these particular use cases?

[rubenvanassche]

@agentphoenix That seems like a great idea! Though it it will take some work to implement, the include and exclude methods allow you to include/exclude lazy properties. You need to also implement the only / except methods which need to decide in advance which properties should be transformed and which not.

I think only/except should have precedence on the lazy properties. So if someones hides a property with except and then includes that same property then it shouldn't be in the payload.

It would be really cool if you'd use the PartialsParser to make nested things like this possible:

ArtistData::from($artist)->only('name', 'songs.title')->toArray();

I'd love to see such a PR! Good luck!

[agentphoenix]

Awesome! Thanks for the insight @rubenvanassche. I'll definitely jump in and take a shot at adding the methods.