Guzzle Commands

This library uses Guzzle and provides the foundations to create fully-featured web service clients by abstracting Guzzle HTTP requests and responses into higher-level commands and results. A middleware system, analogous to, but separate from, the one in the HTTP layer may be used to customize client behavior when preparing commands into requests and processing responses into results.

Commands

Key-value pair objects representing an operation of a web service. Commands have a name and a set of parameters.

Results

Key-value pair objects representing the processed result of executing an operation of a web service.

Installing

This project can be installed using Composer:

composer require guzzlehttp/command

Service Clients

Service Clients are web service clients that implement the GuzzleHttp\Command\ServiceClientInterface and use an underlying Guzzle HTTP client (GuzzleHttp\ClientInterface) to communicate with the service. Service clients create and execute commands (GuzzleHttp\Command\CommandInterface), which encapsulate operations within the web service, including the operation name and parameters. This library provides a generic implementation of a service client: the GuzzleHttp\Command\ServiceClient class.

Instantiating a Service Client

The provided service client implementation (GuzzleHttp\Command\ServiceClient) can be instantiated by providing the following arguments:

1. A fully-configured Guzzle HTTP client that will be used to perform the underlying HTTP requests. That is, an instance of an object implementing GuzzleHttp\ClientInterface such as new GuzzleHttp\Client().
2. A callable that transforms a Command into a Request. The function should accept a GuzzleHttp\Command\CommandInterface object and return a Psr\Http\Message\RequestInterface object.
3. A callable that transforms a Response into a Result. The function should accept a Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface object and optionally a Psr\Http\Message\RequestInterface object, and return a GuzzleHttp\Command\ResultInterface object.
4. Optionally, a Guzzle HandlerStack (GuzzleHttp\HandlerStack), which can be used to add command-level middleware to the service client.

Below is an example configured to send and receive JSON payloads:

use GuzzleHttp\Client as HttpClient;
use GuzzleHttp\Command\CommandInterface;
use GuzzleHttp\Command\Result;
use GuzzleHttp\Command\ResultInterface;
use GuzzleHttp\Command\ServiceClient;
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Request;
use GuzzleHttp\UriTemplate\UriTemplate;
use GuzzleHttp\Utils;
use Psr\Http\Message\RequestInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;

$client = new ServiceClient(
    new HttpClient(['base_uri' => 'https://api.example.com']),
    function (CommandInterface $command): RequestInterface {
        return new Request(
            'POST',
            UriTemplate::expand('/{command}', ['command' => $command->getName()]),
            ['Accept' => 'application/json', 'Content-Type' => 'application/json'],
            Utils::jsonEncode($command->toArray())
        );
    },
    function (
        ResponseInterface $response,
        RequestInterface $request,
        CommandInterface $command
    ): ResultInterface {
        return new Result(
            Utils::jsonDecode((string) $response->getBody(), true)
        );
    }
);

Executing Commands

Service clients create command objects using the getCommand() method.

$commandName = 'foo';
$arguments = ['baz' => 'bar'];
$command = $client->getCommand($commandName, $arguments);

After creating a command, you may execute the command using the execute() method of the client.

$result = $client->execute($command);

The result of executing a command will be an instance of an object implementing GuzzleHttp\Command\ResultInterface. Result objects are ArrayAccess-ible and contain the data parsed from HTTP response.

Service clients have magic methods that act as shortcuts to executing commands by name without having to create the Command object in a separate step before executing it.

$result = $client->foo(['baz' => 'bar']);

Per-command HTTP options

GuzzleHttp\Command\ServiceClient reserves the @http command parameter for per-command Guzzle request options. When a command is executed, the service client reads $command['@http'], removes it from the command, transforms the remaining command data into a PSR-7 request, and passes the @http array to the underlying Guzzle HTTP client.

This is intended for trusted application code that needs to adjust transport behavior for a single command, such as setting a shorter timeout. Treat @http as a reserved control key, not as an operation parameter. Do not pass untrusted input directly into command arguments without filtering it first. If external input can include @http, that input may be able to influence the underlying HTTP request or transfer depending on the configured Guzzle client and handler. The @http value must be an array of Guzzle request options. Be especially careful with options that affect the target URI, proxy, TLS verification, headers, body, response sink, redirects, or timeouts.

Build command arguments from an allowlist of expected operation parameters, or explicitly reject reserved keys such as @http before creating commands:

if (array_key_exists('@http', $input)) {
    throw new InvalidArgumentException('"@http" is reserved.');
}

$command = $client->getCommand('foo', [
    'baz' => (string) $input['baz'],
]);

When setting per-command HTTP options intentionally, only expose and validate the specific options your application needs:

use GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions;

$command = $client->getCommand('foo', [
    'baz' => 'bar',
    '@http' => [
        RequestOptions::CONNECT_TIMEOUT => 1.0,
        RequestOptions::TIMEOUT => 2.0,
    ],
]);

$result = $client->execute($command);

Because @http is removed during execution, create a new command if you need to execute the same operation again with the same per-command HTTP options.

Asynchronous Commands

Commands can be executed asynchronously using executeAsync(). This method returns a GuzzleHttp\Promise\PromiseInterface that resolves to a GuzzleHttp\Command\ResultInterface.

use GuzzleHttp\Command\ResultInterface;

// Create and execute an asynchronous command.
$command = $client->getCommand('foo', ['baz' => 'bar']);
$promise = $client->executeAsync($command);

$promise->then(function (ResultInterface $result) {
    echo $result['fizz']; //> 'buzz'
})->wait();

Synchronous execution is equivalent to waiting on the asynchronous operation:

$result = $promise->wait();

echo $result['fizz']; //> 'buzz'

Magic methods may also be used asynchronously by appending Async to the operation name. For example, fooAsync() creates a foo command and executes it asynchronously:

$promise = $client->fooAsync(['baz' => 'bar']);
$result = $promise->wait();

If execution fails, the promise is rejected with a GuzzleHttp\Command\Exception\CommandException. When HTTP errors are enabled, 4xx and 5xx responses are represented by CommandClientException and CommandServerException, respectively, when the underlying Guzzle exception contains a response.

Concurrent Requests

Use executeAll() or executeAllAsync() to execute multiple commands with a fixed concurrency limit. Both methods accept an array or iterator that yields CommandInterface objects.

executeAll() waits for the pool to finish and returns an array keyed like the input commands. Successful entries contain results. Failed entries contain the rejection reason, typically a CommandException.

use GuzzleHttp\Command\ResultInterface;

$commands = [
    'first' => $client->getCommand('foo', ['baz' => 'bar']),
    'second' => $client->getCommand('foo', ['baz' => 'qux']),
];

$results = $client->executeAll($commands, [
    'concurrency' => 10,
    'fulfilled' => function (ResultInterface $result, $key) {
        // Called when one command succeeds.
    },
    'rejected' => function ($reason, $key) {
        // Called when one command fails.
    },
]);

executeAllAsync() returns a promise for the command pool instead of waiting for it immediately. The same options are supported:

$promise = $client->executeAllAsync($commands, [
    'concurrency' => 10,
]);

$promise->wait();

The supported options are:

• concurrency: Maximum number of commands to execute at the same time. The default is 25.
• fulfilled: Callable invoked as fulfilled($result, $key) when an individual command succeeds.
• rejected: Callable invoked as rejected($reason, $key) when an individual command fails.

Choose a concurrency value that is appropriate for the remote service and your application. Very large command lists should generally be streamed with an iterator rather than built eagerly as a large array.

Middleware: Extending the Client

Middleware can be added to the service client or underlying HTTP client to implement additional behavior and customize the Command-to-Result and Request-to-Response lifecycles, respectively.

Command middleware is added to the service client's handler stack and wraps commands before they are transformed into HTTP requests. HTTP middleware should be configured on the underlying Guzzle HTTP client instead.

use GuzzleHttp\Command\CommandInterface;
use GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions;

$client->getHandlerStack()->push(function (callable $handler) {
    return function (CommandInterface $command) use ($handler) {
        $http = $command['@http'] ?: [];
        $http[RequestOptions::TIMEOUT] = 2.0;
        $command['@http'] = $http;

        return $handler($command);
    };
});

Security

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License

Guzzle is made available under the MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

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