rtablada / ibm-data-struct
A quick library for creating string length data structures to communicate with IBM services
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Last update: 2024-12-17 03:26:35 UTC
README
When communicating with IBM based web services you may be required to create data structures represented by strings of varied lengths. This can be a bit tedious to have to remember string lengths and various requirements and create these data structures from varied inputs.
This library gives you a simple API for creating these structures in a manageable and configurable way.
Installation
This library can be installed using composer and requiring rtablada/ibm-data-struct.
Use
To create a data structure and get the string representation you just need to pass a set of input values and rules to create the structure. The rules will be parsed in order to create the string. If a rule is not defined as a map, then the default mutation of length will be used.
$values = [ 'name_long' => 'Ryan Tablada', 'name_short' => 'Ryan Tablada', ]; $rules = [ 'name_short' => 22, // Pad length to take up 22 chars 'name_long' => ['length' => 10], // Trim to 10 chars ]; $structure = new Rtablada\IbmDataStruct\IbmStructBuilder($values, $rules); $stringValue = (string) $structure; $stringValue = $structure->getString();