plank/laravel-metable

What's Changed

• Fix PHP 8.4 explicit nullable type deprecation by @saulens22 in #112

Full Changelog: 6.3.0...6.3.1

What's Changed

• Added support for Laravel 13 by @frasmage in #127
• Return Model instance to support chaining by @skauk in #117

New Contributors

• @skauk made their first contribution in #117

Full Changelog: 6.2.0...6.3.0

What's Changed

• Laravel 12.x Compatibility by @laravel-shift in #113

New Contributors

• @laravel-shift made their first contribution in #113

Full Changelog: 6.1.0...6.2.0

What's Changed

• Add PHP 8.4 support by @frasmage in #111
• Fix phpunit deprecations by @skeemer in #108

New Contributors

• @skeemer made their first contribution in #108

Full Changelog: 6.0.4...6.1.0

What's Changed

• Fix index migration on Postgres by @frasmage in #106

Full Changelog: 6.0.3...6.0.4

What's Changed

• fix mysql migration by @frasmage in #104

Full Changelog: 6.0.2...6.0.3

• doc updates

Full Changelog: 6.0.1...6.0.2

• Fix ReadTheDocs documentation generation

Full Changelog: 6.0.0...6.0.1

Version 6 contains a number of changes to improve the usability, performance and security of the package. Refer to the UPGRADING.md file for detailed instructions on how to upgrade from version 5.

Compatibility

• Added support for PHP 8.3
• Droppped support for PHP 8.0 and below
• Added support for Laravel 10 and 11
• Dropped support Laravel versions 9 and below
• New schema migration adding new columns and improving indexing for searching by meta values. See UPGRADING.md for details

Data Types

• Added SignedSerializeHandler as a catch-all datatype, which will attempt to serialize the data using PHP's serialize() function. The payload is cryptographically signed with an HMAC before being stored in the database to prevent PHP object injection attacks.
• Deprecated SerializableHandler in favor of the new SignedSerializeHandler datatype. The SerializableHandler will be removed in a future release. In the interim, added the metable.options.serializable.allowedClasses config to protect against unserializing untrusted data.
• Deprecated ArrayHandler and ObjectHandler, due to the ambiguity of nested array/objects switching type. These will be removed in a future release. The SignedSerializeHandler should be used instead.
• Added PureEnumHandler and BackedEnumHandler which adds support for storing enum values as Meta.
• Added StringableHandler which adds support for storing Illuminate\Support\Stringable objects as Meta.
• Added DateTimeImmutableHandler which adds support for storing DateTimeImmutable/CarbonImmutable objects as Meta.
• The ModelHandler will now validate that the encoded class is a valid Eloquent Model before attempting to instantiate it during unserialization. If the class is invalid, the meta value will return null.
• The ModelHandler will no longer throw a model not found exception if the model no longer exists. Instead, the meta value will return null. This is more in line with the existing behavior of the ModelCollectionHandler.
• The ModelCollectionHandler will now validate that the encoded collection class is a valid Eloquent collection before attempting to instantiate it during unserialization. If the class is invalid, an instance of Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection will be used instead.
• The ModelCollectionHandler will now validate that the encoded class of each entry is a valid Eloquent Model before attempting to instantiate it during unserialization. If the class is invalid, that entry in the collection will be omitted.
• Added getNumericValue(): null|int|float method to HandlerInterface which should convert the original value into a numeric format for indexing, if relevant for the data type.
• Added useHmacVerification(): bool method to HandlerInterface which should indicate whether the integrity of the serialized data should be verified with an HMAC.

New Commands

• Added metable:refresh artisan command which will decode and re-encode all meta values in the database. This is useful if you have changed the data type handlers and need to update the serialized data and indexes in the database.

Efficient Value Search

• The Metable whereMeta(), whereMetaIn(), and orderByMeta() query scopes can now leverage a prefix index on the meta.value column. This greatly improves performance when searching for meta values against larger datasets when using applicable operators, e.g. =, %, >, >=, <, <=, <>, LIKE (no leading wildcard). This index is only supported by the 'mysql', 'mariadb', 'pgsql', and 'sqlite' drivers.
• The whereMetaNumeric() and orderByMetaNumeric() query scopes will now scan the indexed numeric_value column instead of the serialized value column. This greatly improves performance when searching for meta values against larger datasets.
• whereMetaNumeric() query scope will now accept a value of any type. It will be converted to an integer or float by the handler. This is more consistent with the behaviour of the other query scopes.
• Added additional query scopes to more easily search meta values based on different criteria:
  • whereMetaInNumeric()
  • whereMetaNotIn()
  • whereMetaNotInNumeric()
  • whereMetaBetween()
  • whereMetaBetweenNumeric()
  • whereMetaNotBetween()
  • whereMetaNotBetweenNumeric()
  • whereMetaIsNull()
  • whereMetaIsModel()
• If the data type handlers cannot convert the search value provided to a whereMeta*Numeric() query scope to a numeric value, then an exception will be thrown.

Metable Casting

• Added support for casting meta values to specific types by defining the $castMeta property or castMeta(): array method on the model. This is similar to the casts property of Eloquent Models used for attributes. All cast types supported by Eloquent Models are also available for Meta values.Values will be cast before values are stored in the database to ensure that they are indexed consistently
• Added mergeMetaCasts() method which can be used to override the defined cast on a meta key at runtime.

Encrypt Meta

• Added the setMetaEncrypted() method which will encrypt data before storing it in the database and decrypt it when retrieving it. This is useful for storing sensitive data in the meta table.
• Prefixing a meta cast with encrypted: will automatically encrypt all values for that meta key.

Metable Attributes

• Added optional trait MetableAttributes which can further extend the Metable trait allowing access to meta values as model attributes using a meta_ prefix. This can be useful for type hinting, IDE autocompletion, static analysis, and usage in Blade templates.

Meta

• Added $meta->numeric_value attributes, which are used for optimizing queries filtering by meta value
• Added $meta->hmac attribute, which is used by some data type handlers to validate that the payload has not been tampered with.
• Added $meta->raw_value virtual attribute, which exposes the raw serialized value of the meta key. This is useful for debugging purposes.
• Added encrypt() method, used internally by the Metable::setMetaEncrypted() method

Full Changelog: 5.4.0...6.0.0

What's Changed

• feat: support laravel 10 by @GeoSot in #94
• feat: add dependabot by @GeoSot in #95

Full Changelog: 5.3.1...5.4.0

• Fixed setManyMeta() not properly serializing certain types of data.

• New schema migration: improved database indexing. See UPGRADING.md for details.
• Added config meta.applyMigrations. When set to false, migration paths will not be loaded from the package. Use this if you wish to override the default schema migrations provided with the package.
• Added setManyMeta() to bulk insert/update multiple keys to a model. Requires Laravel 8.0+ for optimal performance.
• Added removeManyMeta() to bulk delete multiple keys from a model.
• Fixed removeMeta() method causing an error if called with a non-existent key.
• Fixed a minor bug with setMeta() creating duplicates in the cached meta relation when updating a key.

• fixed support for Laravel 8.0 migration squashing
• Migration files are now loaded from the package itself instead of being published to the local /database/migrations directory. This may cause conflicts when upgrading, see UPGRADING.md for mitigation steps.

• Added support for Laravel 8.0 (Thanks @saulens!)
• Moved minimum requirements to PHP 7.3 and Laravel 6.0+

• Fixed array unpacking issue when queuing Metable models

• Added Laravel 7.0 support (Thanks @saulens22!)

• The joinMetaTable() function now uses getMorphClass() for Metable trait to assist with single table inheritance (Thanks @mbryne!)

• Moved minimum requirements to PHP 7.2 and Laravel 5.6+
• Added a number of missing return types.

1.1.0 - 2018-05-15

• Added whereDoesntHaveMeta() query scope (Thanks @tormjens!)

1.0.4 - 2017-08-20

• Added Laravel 5.5 package autodiscovery
• Meta keys are now correctly case sensitive throughout the package (Thanks @Luukvdo!)
• Fixed some PHPDoc typehints (Thanks @Luukvdo!)

1.0.3 - 2017-03-21

• Fixed some compatibility bugs with MySQL

1.0.2 - 2017-02-03

• Removed illegal default from value column in migration

1.0.1 - 2017-01-30

• Added Laravel 5.4 Compatibility

1.0.0 - 2017-01-16

• Initial Release