Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator

Hydration is the act of populating an object from a set of data.

The Hydrator is a simple component to provide mechanisms both for hydrating objects, as well as extracting data sets from them.

The component consists of an interface, and several implementations for common use cases.

HydratorInterface

namespace Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator;

interface HydratorInterface
{
    /**
     * Extract values from an object
     *
     * @param  object $object
     * @return array
     */
    public function extract($object);

    /**
     * Hydrate $object with the provided $data.
     *
     * @param  array $data
     * @param  object $object
     * @return object
     */
    public function hydrate(array $data, $object);
}

Usage

Usage is quite simple: simply instantiate the hydrator, and then pass information to it.

use Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator;
$hydrator = new Hydrator\ArraySerializable();

$object = new ArrayObject(array());

$hydrator->hydrate($someData, $object);

// or, if the object has data we want as an array:
$data = $hydrator->extract($object);

Available Implementations

• Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\ArraySerializable

  Follows the definition of ArrayObject. Objects must implement either the exchangeArray() or populate() methods to support hydration, and the getArrayCopy() method to support extraction.

• Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\ClassMethods

  Any data key matching a setter method will be called in order to hydrate; any method matching a getter method will be called for extraction.

• Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\ObjectProperty

  Any data key matching a publicly accessible property will be hydrated; any public properties will be used for extraction.