patchlevel/hydrator

This system is a PHP library for object hydration and data normalization, now architected around a middleware-based processing pipeline. It provides a flexible framework for converting between PHP objects and data arrays, featuring automatic type inference, lifecycle hooks, and transparent data encryption. The library supports extensible normalizers and metadata caching, enabling developers to customize every stage of the data transformation process.

This period was dominated by the complete refactoring of the hydration and normalization API into version 2.0, introducing a middleware-based architecture and context-aware normalizers. Concurrently, the metadata system was enhanced with caching support, an enricher pattern, and serialization capabilities. The work was supported by extensive updates to unit and benchmark tests to cover the new interfaces and performance requirements.

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This period focused on refactoring the core hydration and extraction logic into a flexible middleware pipeline, enabling modular extensions. It introduced a new type guesser system for automatic normalizer resolution and added a cryptography extension for transparent data encryption. Comprehensive unit tests were added to validate the new middleware stack, lifecycle hooks, and upcast transformations.

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