How to pass the base url and authentication details to the connector in non-Laravel apps?

[iamniels]

I'm planning on using Saloon to create a lib to interact with my own app. The lib can be used by other PHP (not Laravel) apps (consumer of the lib). How do I pass the base url and authentication details to the connector in the consumer app?

Extending a base connector and setting the name of that connector in each request in the consumer app is not efficient.

Great work BTW!

[Sammyjo20]

Thank you for the feedback!

In my libraries/SDKs that use Saloon, I tend to define the base URL / authentication into the constructor of your SDK/Library class. Then you can create a new instance of a connector and pass it into the connector via a constructor.

For authentication, you could accept an instance of AuthenticatorInterface or create one yourself and then authenticate the connector with $connector->withAuth().

Then you can re-use the same connector multiple times for the requests.

[iamniels]

Thanks!

Probably good to mention that I missed this topic in the docs: https://docs.saloon.dev/the-basics/sending-requests/sdk-style-connectors

[f4llenz]

This is what I do in my Connectors:

public function __construct(
    string $baseUrl;
)
{}

public function defineBaseUrl(): string
{
    return $this->baseUrl;
}