Alternatives to this library

Mapping and hydration have been available in the PHP world for a long time. This library aims to bring powerful features to this aspect, some of which are missing in similar packages:

• Objects have a valid state when mapping is over.
• Validation is recursively applied on the input during mapping, reported error messages bring clarity to missing or invalid values.
• Type declaration follow community standards developed by popular packages, meaning that advanced types like list<string>, non-empty-string, positive-int, int<0, 42>, shaped arrays, generic classes and more are handled and validated properly.
• The mapper can be flexible, allowing for instance type casting when needed.
• Mapped objects should not rely on inheritance.

You may take a look at alternative projects, but some features listed above might be missing:

• symfony/serializer
• eventsauce/object-hydrator
• crell/serde
• spatie/laravel-data
• jms/serializer
• netresearch/jsonmapper
• json-mapper/json-mapper
• brick/json-mapper