Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\Strategy

You can add a Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\Strategy\StrategyInterface to any of the hydrators (expect it extends Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\AbstractHydrator or implements Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\HydratorInterface and Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\Strategy\StrategyEnabledInterface) to manipulate the way how they behave on extract() and hydrate() for specific key / value pairs. This is the interface that needs to be implemented:

namespace Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\Strategy;

interface StrategyInterface
{
     /**
      * Converts the given value so that it can be extracted by the hydrator.
      *
      * @param mixed $value The original value.
      * @return mixed Returns the value that should be extracted.
      */
     public function extract($value);
     /**
      * Converts the given value so that it can be hydrated by the hydrator.
      *
      * @param mixed $value The original value.
      * @return mixed Returns the value that should be hydrated.
      */
     public function hydrate($value);
}

As you can see, this interface is similar to Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\HydratorInterface. The reason why is, that the strategies provide a proxy implementation for hydrate() and extract().

Adding strategies to the hydrators

To allow strategies within your hydrator, the Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\Strategy\StrategyEnabledInterface provide the following methods:

namespace Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator;

use Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\Strategy\StrategyInterface;

interface StrategyEnabledInterface
{
    /**
     * Adds the given strategy under the given name.
     *
     * @param string $name The name of the strategy to register.
     * @param StrategyInterface $strategy The strategy to register.
     * @return HydratorInterface
     */
    public function addStrategy($name, StrategyInterface $strategy);

    /**
     * Gets the strategy with the given name.
     *
     * @param string $name The name of the strategy to get.
     * @return StrategyInterface
     */
    public function getStrategy($name);

    /**
     * Checks if the strategy with the given name exists.
     *
     * @param string $name The name of the strategy to check for.
     * @return bool
     */
    public function hasStrategy($name);

    /**
     * Removes the strategy with the given name.
     *
     * @param string $name The name of the strategy to remove.
     * @return HydratorInterface
     */
    public function removeStrategy($name);
}

Every hydrator, that is shipped by default, provides this functionality. The AbstractHydrator has it fully functional implemented. If you want to use this functionality in your own hydrators, you should extend the AbstractHydrator.

Available implementations

• Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\Strategy\SerializableStrategy

  This is the strategy, that provides the functionality for Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\ArraySerializable. You can use it with custom implementations for Zend\Serializer\Adapter\AdapterInterface if you want to.

• Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\Strategy\DefaultStrategy

  This is a kind of dummy-implementation, that simply proxies everything through, without doing anything on the parameters.

Writing custom strategies

As usual, this is not really a very useful example, but will give you a good point about how to start with writing your own strategies and where to use them. This strategy simply transform the value for the defined key to rot13 on extract() and back on hydrate():

 class Rot13Strategy implements StrategyInterface
 {
     public function extract($value)
     {
         return str_rot13($value);
     }

     public function hydrate($value)
     {
         return str_rot13($value);
     }
 }

This is the example class, we want to use for the hydrator example:

 class Foo
 {
     protected $foo = null;
     protected $bar = null;

     public function getFoo()
     {
         return $this->foo;
     }

     public function setFoo($foo)
     {
         $this->foo = $foo;
     }

     public function getBar()
     {
         return $this->bar;
     }

     public function setBar($bar)
     {
         $this->bar = $bar;
     }
 }

Now, we want to add the rot13 strategy to the method getFoo() and setFoo($foo):

 $foo = new Foo();
 $foo->setFoo("bar");
 $foo->setBar("foo");

 $hydrator = new ClassMethods();
 $hydrator->addStrategy("foo", new Rot13Strategy());

When you now use the hydrator, to get an array of the object $foo, this is the array you’ll get:

 $extractedArray = $hydrator->extract($foo);

 // array(2) {
 //     ["foo"]=>
 //     string(3) "one"
 //     ["bar"]=>
 //     string(3) "foo"
 // }

And the the way back:

 $hydrator->hydrate($extractedArray, $foo)

 // object(Foo)#2 (2) {
 //   ["foo":protected]=>
 //   string(3) "bar"
 //   ["bar":protected]=>
 //   string(3) "foo"
 // }