Interfaces

Contract User

This is an Interface of an User. Contract User is a child of Contract Content, and has more abilities.

 
namespace MetaFox\Platform\Contracts;
 
interface User extends Content, BigNumberId
{
    /**
     * Result must contain entity_type, user_name, user_image, name.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function toUserResource(): array;
 
    /**
     * Determine if resource can be blocked.
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function canBeBlocked(): bool;
}

A special ability of a Contract User is that it uses BigNumberId to set ID (with setEntityId method) for entities tables ( to support global and unique ID for all resources).

 
namespace MetaFox\Platform\Contracts;
 
interface BigNumberId
{
    public function entityId();
 
    public function setEntityId(int $id);
 
    public function entityType();
}

To define which details are stored in entities table, we can use the toUserResource() method. For example: in User, you can define this method as below:

 
public function toUserResource()
{
    return [
        'entity_type' => $this->entityType(),
        'user_name'   => $this->user_name,
        'user_image'  => $this->profile != null ? $this->profile->user_image : null,
        'name'        => $this->full_name,
    ];
}

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