I recently forked a library that makes API calls to wikidata.org, the original library appears to be abandoned and was using a deprecated package, which was preventing the application from upgrading to Symfony 7. I've fixed that, and would like to also replace the dependency on Guzzle. Ideally, it should be any PSR-7 client, I would like to use Symfony so I get all the bonuses like automatic retry and integration with the debug toolbar.

The main class instantiates an ApiClient:

  public function search($query, $lang = 'en', $limit = 10)
  {
    $client = new ApiClient();

https://github.com/survos/wikidata/blob/master/src/Wikidata.php#L22-L24

The ApiClient uses the Guzzle Client

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

class ApiClient
{
  const API_ENDPOINT = 'https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php';
  private $client;
  public function __construct()
  {
    $this->client = new Client();
  }

I thought it'd be easy to swap out one for the other, but I got stuck quickly.

There are a lot of libraries out there that require guzzle to make API calls, but the better way is say something like

You will also need to install packages that "provide" psr/http-client-implementation and psr/http-factory-implementation, e.g.

composer require meilisearch/meilisearch-php symfony/http-client nyholm/psr7:^1.0

https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-php?tab=readme-ov-file#-installation

I've been using the meili library as a model for how to do this, but am a bit stuck and looking for some guidance on an easier way.

At this point, I'd even be okay with requiring the Symfony client. I still struggle with Mocks and testing, but maybe there are modern solutions to that as well. Pest looks pretty interesting, for example.

Since this is not my main focus, I really just want to fetch some wikidata from a Symfony 7 app (which I can do now), using the Symfony client is just a bonus. So again, looking for an easy way to drop guzzle and using symfony.

Any suggestions?