spatie/laravel-data 4.0.0

on GitHub

• Allow arrays, Collections, Paginators, ... to be used as DataCollections
• Add support for magically creating data collections
• Rewritten transformation system with respect to includeable properties
• Addition of collect method
• Removal of collection method
• Add support for using Laravel Model attributes as data properties
• Allow creating data objects using from without parameters
• Add support for a Dto and Resource object
• It is now a lot easier to validate all the payloads added to laravel-data
• Added contexts to the creation and transformation process
• Allow creating a data object or collection using a factory
• Speed up the process of creating and transforming data objects
• Add support for BNF syntax
• Laravel 10 requirement
• Rewritten docs

Some more "internal" changes

• Restructured tests for the future we have ahead
• The Type system was completely rewritten, allowing for a better performance and more flexibility in the future
• Benchmarks added to make data even faster