Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

Understanding and setting transformers

Actually, the package we used, named, Dingo API, contains a lot of stuff that we need to create a RESTful web service. The same Dingo API package provides support for transformers as well.

Before doing anything, we need to understand that the transformer layer consists of transformers. A transformer is a class responsible for data presentation. Dingo API transformers support transformers, and for transformers, the API depends on another library responsible for transformer functionality. It is up to us which transformation layer or library we use. By default, it comes with Fractal, a default transformation layer.

We don't need to do anything else related to setup. Let's move towards using transformer ...