To create a block transformer (if you really need it) you just have to create a class

App/Transformers/Block/Slideshow

, for example

If you name a block 'quote-author', class would be QuoteAuthor

You have an example here https://github.com/area17/twill-transformers#create-block-transformers

@antonioribeiro I think @Ivan Markov is looking to have a transformer to transform repeaters inside a block

yes ! @User

@User , you can still create the Block\QuoteAuthor (just my example) class, when youn call

$this->transformBlocks()

and it finds a block named QuoteAuthor, this class will be called having

$this

as the all contents of your block (QuoteAuthor), so inside this class you get transform your block data, and can also loop over your repeaters and transform them, you can even create a new class just to transform your repeaters, if you like. Let's say your repeaters are the paragraphs of the QuoteAuthor:

<?php

namespace App\Transformers\Block;

class QuoteAuthor extends Transformer
{
    public function transform($data = null)
    {
        return [
            'title' => $this->title,

            'author' => $this->author,

            'paragraphs' => $this->transformQuoteParagraphs($this->paragraphs),
        ];
    }
}

/cc @User

Hi @User ! I just began working a on

twill-api

package in order to have a REST API ready and extendable. I am starting to dig into

twill-transformers

 to hopefully bring in the work into the api package. Any words of wisdom or advice? 🙂 I'm not so far into it yet, but would love to discuss it with you (and everyone interested)!

@User I don't understand how you get repeaters using the $this->paragraphs method . The only way I could get to them is through the path $ this->data->blocks

dd($this)

@User , it was really just an example to say they are somewhere inside

$this

, so yes, internally it will re-add all blocks back to the transformer if we have sub-blocks (as repeaters are subblocks)

Nice @User ! Yeah, sure, hit me whenever you want to discuss it! A call can be more productive

Ok, sounds great. I'll be in touch tomorrow or Wednesday!

Hi @User, please help me correctly connect the namespaces of the capsules for twill-transformers https://github.com/area17/twill-transformers/blob/ac1f36c8983f4dbedb490e3f88d70b5a83ee2987/src/Behaviours/HasBlocks.php#L99

i tried to use capsule model browsers in blocks but failed

not perfect solution but worked in HasBlocks.php

protected function getModelFromBrowserName($browserName, $id)
    {

        $browserName = Str::beforeLast($browserName, ':');

//        $class =
//            $this->config('namespaces.app.models') .
//            '\\' .
//            Str::singular(Str::studly($browserName));
        
        foreach ($this->config('namespaces.app.models') as $namespace)
        {
            $class = $namespace . '\\' . Str::singular(Str::studly($browserName));

            if (class_exists($class)) {
                break;
            }
        }

        return $class::find($id);
    }

in config twill-transformers.php ``` 'app' => [ // 'models' => 'App\Models', 'models' => ['App\Models','App\Twill\Capsules\Products\Models'], 'transformers' => 'App\Transformers', ], ``

Sorry, @User , a bit swamped out here with work. But glad to see you find yourself a solution!

Hi. Tell me please. How can I override the underlying structure output of all blocks without overriding the template for each one? At the moment I have found the file src/Transformers/Block/Raw.php it has a transform method that helped me with this.

Hey @User , not sure what you want to accomplish but the idea is if you want to change the behaviour of your blocks you have those methods: 1)

transformData()

method:

page

transformers will usually have this method, it's used to get the data from the transformer and it should be called from your base transformer. So usually my

App\Transformers\Transformer::class

looks something like this:

public function transform(): array
{
    return $this->sanitize([
        'template_name' => $this->makeTemplateName(),

        'page' => $this->transformData($this),

        'seo' => $this->transformSeo($this),

        'locale' => locale(),
    ]);
}

See the

transformData()

being called?

2)

transform()

method: this is the root transformer method and if you don't override this method on a new transformer class, it will use the base transformer method. Usually we create a Transformer class on our application and we have a

transform()

method on it, so all my

page

transformers will return the same structure every time, for for example I have a Home Page, a Post Page, and an Author Page, they will all descend from the same base transformer, will all use the same base transform() method, and the method responsible for transforming data for that page is actually

transformData()

. When we have a partial transformer let's say a Promotion, I will override the

transform()

method because now I don't need ALL that data that we are generating on the base transformer, I don't need page, seo, locale, what I need is my transformer to only return an array with the Promotion, like this

class Promotion extends Transformer
{
    public function transform(): array
    {
        $promotion = $this->getData();

        return [
            'id' => $promotion->ProductId,
            'name' => $promotion->ProductName,
            'code' => $promotion->ProductCode,
            'quantity' => $promotion->Quantity,
            'saving' => $promotion->Saving,
        ];
    }
}

So for blocks if you need to override the base block transformer because you need more, you just have to create the

App\Transformers\Block\Quote::class

, override the

transform()

and generate the array for your block. Hope it helps, Cheers!

Thank you for your message. I will try to understand. I needed to override the basic behavior and structure of the block.

I found that the current solution has problems getting all nesting blocks:

$this->transformSubBlocks

also the browser output does not work for me.

As things with blogs can get very complex, @User , I would say create a class

App\Transformers\Block\BannerSlide::class

And render the block yourself.

Extend it from

A17\TwillTransformers\Transformers\Block

Yes. Thanks. That's exactly what I did. I was wondering how it was supposed to work by default.

https://github.com/area17/twill-transformers#create-block-transformers The line

use App\Transformers\Block;

Is it referring to

A17\TwillTransformers\Transformers\Block

?

In the example the app has its own but by default you would use the one you said, yes

I have gone through the source code for a few hours, can't get my head around on this part. In the example below, what data type is

$portraits

and

$portrait

? https://github.com/area17/twill-transformers#reuse-blocks-as-components

public function transformArtistPortraits($portraits)
{
    return collect($portraits)->map(function ($portrait) {
        return $this->transformBlockArtistPortrait($portrait);
    });
}

Below is my

About

singleton module, I had success transforming `About`'s data, but I'm not sure how I can transform the

Content Alfa

block.

Did you try what the default behavior is giving you?

'blocks' => $this->transformBlocks(),