How to replace to Illuminate\Http\Client\Response to custom Response

[Haythamasalama]

Hi,

I wanna make a custom response for response in HTTP Client to overwrite the throw() method. but how to replace in all HTTP classes that are used Illuminate\Http\Client\Response to BaseResponse in clean way ?

<?php

namespace App\Contracts;

use App\Exceptions\APIException;
use Illuminate\Http\Client\Response;

class BaseResponse extends Response
{
    /**
     * throw exception
     *
     * @throws APIException
     */
    public function throw(): BaseResponse
    {
        $status = $this->status();
        $message = $this->json();

        if ($this->serverError()) {
            throw APIException::serverError(
                message: $message,
                statusCode: $status,
            );
        }

        if ($this->clientError()) {
            throw APIException::clientError(
                message: $message,
                statusCode: $status,
            );
        }

        return $this;
    }
}

I tried to use the alias() and bind() method in AppServiceProvider but didn't works.

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register(): void
    {
        $this->app->alias(BaseResponse::class, Response::class);
    }
    
    //... 
}

[bilalthepunjabi]

To replace the Illuminate\Http\Client\Response with a custom response class, you can use a response macro.

1. create your custom response class:

namespace App\Http\Responses;

use Illuminate\Http\Response;

class CustomResponse extends Response
{
    // Add your custom methods and properties here
}

2. register a response macro in the boot method of a service provider:

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use App\Http\Responses\CustomResponse;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function boot()
    {
        Response::macro('custom', function ($content = '', $status = 200, array $headers = []) {
            return new CustomResponse($content, $status, $headers);
        });
    }
}

3. you can now use the custom response class by calling the custom method on the response helper function:

return response()->custom($content, $status, $headers);

This will return an instance of your custom response class, which you can use to return customized responses in your application.