I am attempting to add custom repsitories (contract and Eloquent) in Laravel.
I don't understand where to add them and how to bind with services. Can any body show the best example for add own wn repository class and interfaces in Laravel?
Thanks in advance
For make usage of repository pattern (if it is that what you want to say), you have two options, one of it is to implement under a self-defined namespace (let's say App\Repositories
), an interface with the methods you want to use in all your repositories, maybe AbstractRepository
or something like that, this one choice is painful because of the lot of code you have to write, the other choice (what I would use), is to install the following package https://github.com/andersao/l5-repository, is really useful and already have inside a lot of methods, just follow the instructions of the readme file and you will not have any issue at all implementing this pattern, hope it helps, bests! ;)
In you controller inject the CustomRepository Class.Like-
class CustomController extends Controller{
private $customRepo;
public function __construct(CustomRepository $customRepo)
{
$this->customRepo= $customRepo;
}
}
The way I like to structure my Laravel Code would be:
Models - App\Models\*
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model as BaseModel;
class Model extends BaseModel
{
//
}
Contracts - App\Repositories\Contracts\*
<?php
namespace App\Repositories\Contracts;
interface Repository
{
// All the common methods for eloquent like - all, paginate, find, where, etc...
}
Repository - App\Repositories\Db\*
<?php
namespace App\Repositories\Db;
class ExampleRepository
{
// All the CRUD related methods here...
}
Services - App\Services\*
<?php
namespace App\Services;
class ExampleService
{
// All the logic & business related methods here...
}
This is what I like to structure my code in a laravel way.
Hope this helps!