Can I use transformers to transform data coming from API rather than from database? - Laravel/Fractel

Asked by: Ajeesh

I have been using laravel to build my APIs. I use transformers to tranform data from model object.

Now instead of database, I have a response coming from an API as the data source and I want to transform that data back to a user, but I am unable to do so.

My Controller

 public function rocByName(Request $request)
    {
        try {
            $this->roc_by_name_validator->with( $request->all() )->passesOrFail();
            $company_name = $request->input('company_name');
            $result = $this->my_service->getDetailsByName($company_name); //$result has the response object from the API which I want to transform and give it as a response.

             return $this->response->collection($result,new OnboardingTransformer()); //Tried using tranformer like this
        }
        catch (ValidatorException $e) {

            dd($e);

        }

    }

My Transformer

<?php

namespace Modules\Onboarding\Transformers;

use League\Fractal\TransformerAbstract;
use App\Entities\OnboardingEntity;  //I dont have an entity since the response is coming from an API!! What will give here?

/**
 * Class OnboardingTransformerTransformer
 * @package namespace App\Transformers;
 */
class OnboardingTransformer extends TransformerAbstract
{

    /**
     * Transform the \OnboardingTransformer entity
     * @param \OnboardingTransformer $model
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function transform(OnboardingEntity $data_source) 
    {
        return [
            'company_name'         => $data_source->company_name,
        ];
    }
}

Here the OnboardingEntity refers to data coming from database ideally. Here I am not fetching data from database, instead my data is from an API source. How do I go about it. I am little consfused here. Can someone give a solution?

$result has the following response

[
    [
        {
            "companyID": "U72400MHTC293037",
            "companyName": "pay pvt LIMITED"
        },
        {
            "companyID": "U74900HR2016PT853",
            "companyName": "dddd PRIVATE LIMITED"
        }
    ]
]

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