Typecasting conversion (#22)

* Implemented typecast option

* updated readme

* Fix

* StyleCI fix

* Removed Extra Condition

Author: albalooshi

README.md

@@ -27,11 +27,13 @@ Define airtables account information in .env:
 AIRTABLE_KEY=
 AIRTABLE_BASE=
 AIRTABLE_TABLE=
+AIRTABLE_TYPECAST=false 
 ```
 
 * `AIRTABLE_KEY` can be retrieved here: https://airtable.com/account
 * `AIRTABLE_BASE` can be found here: https://airtable.com/api, select base then copy from URL: `https://airtable.com/[Base Is Here]/api/docs#curl/introduction`
 * `AIRTABLE_TABLE` can be found in the docs for the appropriate base, this is not case senstive. IE: `tasks`
+* `AIRTABLE_TYPECAST` set this to true to allow automatic casting.
 
 ## Example Config
 

config/config.php

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     | This value can be found in your Airtable account page:
     | https://airtable.com/account
     |
-    */
+     */
     'key' => env('AIRTABLE_KEY'),
 
     /*
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     | https://airtable.com/api
     | https://airtable.com/[BASE_ID]/api/docs#curl/introduction
     |
-    */
+     */
     'base' => env('AIRTABLE_BASE'),
 
     /*
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     | Example:
     | Each record in the `Tasks` contains the following fields
     |
-    */
+     */
     'default' => 'default',
 
     'tables' => [
@@ -49,4 +49,6 @@
 
     'log_http' => env('AIRTABLE_LOG_HTTP', false),
     'log_http_format' => env('AIRTABLE_LOG_HTTP_FORMAT', '{request} >>> {res_body}'),
+
+    'typecast' => env('AIRTABLE_TYPECAST', false),
 ];

src/AirtableManager.php

@@ -119,7 +119,9 @@ protected function createAirtable($table)
             $httpLogFormat = null;
         }
 
-        $client = new AirtableApiClient($base, $table, $access_token, $httpLogFormat);
+        $airtableTypeCast = $this->app['config']['airtable.typecast'];
+
+        $client = new AirtableApiClient($base, $table, $access_token, $httpLogFormat, null, $airtableTypeCast);
 
         return new Airtable($client, $table);
     }

src/Api/AirtableApiClient.php

@@ -9,17 +9,19 @@ class AirtableApiClient implements ApiClient
 {
     private $client;
 
+    private $typecast;
     private $base;
     private $table;
 
     private $filters = [];
     private $pageSize = 100;
     private $maxRecords = 100;
 
-    public function __construct($base, $table, $access_token, $httpLogFormat = null, Client $client = null)
+    public function __construct($base, $table, $access_token, $httpLogFormat = null, Client $client = null, $typecast = false)
     {
         $this->base = $base;
         $this->table = $table;
+        $this->typecast = $typecast;
 
         $stack = \GuzzleHttp\HandlerStack::create();
 
@@ -49,7 +51,7 @@ private function buildClient($access_token, $stack)
 
     public function addFilter($column, $operation, $value)
     {
-        $this->filters [] = "{{$column}}{$operation}\"{$value}\"";
+        $this->filters[] = "{{$column}}{$operation}\"{$value}\"";
 
         return $this;
     }
@@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ public function post($contents = null)
     {
         $url = $this->getEndpointUrl();
 
-        $params = ['json' => ['fields' => (object) $contents]];
+        $params = ['json' => ['fields' => (object) $contents, 'typecast' => $this->typecast]];
 
         return $this->decodeResponse($this->client->post($url, $params));
     }
@@ -116,7 +118,7 @@ public function put(string $id, $contents = null)
     {
         $url = $this->getEndpointUrl($id);
 
-        $params = ['json' => ['fields' => (object) $contents]];
+        $params = ['json' => ['fields' => (object) $contents, 'typecast' => $this->typecast]];
 
         return $this->decodeResponse($this->client->put($url, $params));
     }
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ public function patch(string $id, $contents = null)
     {
         $url = $this->getEndpointUrl($id);
 
-        $params = ['json' => ['fields' => (object) $contents]];
+        $params = ['json' => ['fields' => (object) $contents, 'typecast' => $this->typecast]];
 
         return $this->decodeResponse($this->client->patch($url, $params));
     }