Responses

All built-in response classes extend Nyholm\Psr7\Response and remain fully compatible with PSR-7 consumers. They are immutable, strictly typed, and designed to remove repetitive response setup from application code.

Class Default Status Automatic Headers Body Type Best Used For
JsonResponse 200 Content-Type: application/json; charset=... JsonStream APIs and any response that should keep a structured payload available.
HtmlResponse 200 Content-Type: text/html; charset=... Standard PSR-7 stream Markup rendered directly by browsers or simple web views.
TextResponse 200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=... Standard PSR-7 stream Diagnostics, simple text endpoints, and human-readable plain output.
EmptyResponse 204 None Empty body Successful operations where returning a body would add no value.
RedirectResponse 302 or 301 Location Empty body by default Redirect flows such as login redirects or resource moves.

How to Choose the Right Response

  • Use JsonResponse when clients expect machine-readable payloads.
  • Use HtmlResponse when clients will render HTML.
  • Use TextResponse when the payload is naturally just a string.
  • Use EmptyResponse when success is enough and the body should stay empty.
  • Use RedirectResponse when the next step is another URI.

Common PSR-7 Operations Still Work

The convenience classes do not hide the underlying PSR-7 API:

use FastForward\Http\Message\JsonResponse;
use FastForward\Http\Message\StatusCode;

$response = (new JsonResponse(['saved' => true]))
    ->withStatus(StatusCode::Created->value)
    ->withHeader('X-Request-Id', 'req-123');

Response-Specific Guides