paginate method for data obtained from external api - laravel

Question

I'm wondering if it is possible to automate the pagination process for data obtained from external API like
$users = App\User::paginate(15);
for models. Maybe do you know any packages? I want to make something like that
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('GET', 'https://xxx');
$data = $res->getBody();
$res = json_decode($data );
///pagination
Do you know any solutions? Is the only one way to create pagination manually?

Answer 1

You could use Laravel resource.
First: create a single resource (I suppose your API is about Post)
namespace App\Http\Resources;
use Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\JsonResource;
class Post extends JsonResource
{
/**
* Transform the resource into an array.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #return array
*/
public function toArray($request)
{
return [
'name' => $this->resource['name'],
'title' => $this->resource['title']
];
}
}
Second: create a resource collection
namespace App\Http\Resources;
use Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\ResourceCollection;
class PostCollection extends ResourceCollection
{
public function toArray($request)
{
return [
'data' => $this->collection
->map
->toArray($request)
->all(),
'links' => [
'self' => 'link-value',
],
];
}
}
after that you could set your api data to collection like this:
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('GET', 'https://xxx');
$data = $res->getBody();
$res = collect(json_decode($data));
return PostCollection::make($res);
and for add pagination to your resource collection you could do this:
$res = collect(json_decode($data));
$page = request()->get('page');
$perPage = 10;
$paginator = new LengthAwarePaginator(
$res->forPage($page, $perPage), $res->count(), $perPage, $page
);
return PostCollection::make($paginator);
for reading more about Laravel collection visit laravel documentation.
for knowing more about Consuming third-party APIs with Laravel Resources visit this great article.