Transform Data Into Speaking Format AND BACK

[AlexanderWelberg]

using this bundle you can create a edifact transformation into human readable array like this:

public static function edistring_to_array(string $edifactFile = '', array &$metadata = []): array
    {
        $p = new Parser();
        $p->loadString($edifactFile);
        $metadata[self::DIR_VERSION] = $p->getMessageDirectory();
        $metadata[self::FORMAT] = $p->getMessageFormat();
        $metadata[self::ERRORS] = $p->errors();
        $parsed = $p->get();
        $mapping = new MappingProvider($p->getMessageDirectory());
        $analyser = new Analyser();
        $interpreter = new Interpreter(
            $mapping->getMessage($p->getMessageFormat()),
            $analyser->loadSegmentsXml($mapping->getSegments()),
            $analyser->loadSegmentsXml($mapping->getServiceSegments())
        );
        $interpreted = $interpreter->prepare($parsed);

        return $interpreted;
    }

This will generate a very nice assoc array. But I struggle to reverse this process and generate and edifact message out of the result. Is there a Builder or something to accomplish reverse the process?
I hoped for something like

public static function array_to_edistring(array $data = [], array &$metadata = []): string
{
    $mapping = new MappingProvider($metadata[self::VERSION]);
    $analyser = new Analyser();
    $builder = new Builder($mapping->getMessage($metadata[self::FORMAT]),
        $analyser->loadSegmentsXml($mapping->getSegments()),
        $analyser->loadSegmentsXml($mapping->getServiceSegments())
    );
    $builder->set($data);
    $edifactString = $builder->get();
    $metadata[self::ERRORS] = $builder->errors();
    return $edifactString;
}

[sabas]

Try to call rebuildArray() from Interpreter and then pass the result to EDI\Encoder, it should be what you are looking for 🙂

[sabas]

@AlexanderWelberg any feedback?

[AlexanderWelberg]

I've copy pasted the code from dev branch and it works fine. I dont see rebuildArray function in version ^1.0. Nevertheless it would be great to have a intuitive builder, which can generate edifact files when directory/version is given. In any case, its already a very usefull project when handling edifact.