DPDHL Group unified shipment tracking API SDK

The Shipment Tracking API provides up-to-the-minute shipment status reports. Users of this API can:

• Retrieve tracking information for shipments.
• Identify the Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) service provider involved with the shipment.
• Verify DPDHL is using the correct delivery address. This can reduce the number of misdelivered shipments.

Requirements

System Requirements

• PHP 8.1+ with JSON extension

Package Requirements

• netresearch/jsonmapper: Mapper for deserialization of JSON response messages into PHP objects
• php-http/discovery: Discovery service for HTTP client and message factory implementations
• php-http/httplug: Pluggable HTTP client abstraction
• php-http/logger-plugin: HTTP client logger plugin for HTTPlug
• psr/http-client: PSR-18 HTTP client interfaces
• psr/http-factory: PSR-7 HTTP message factory interfaces
• psr/http-message: PSR-7 HTTP message interfaces
• psr/log: PSR-3 logger interfaces

Virtual Package Requirements

• psr/http-client-implementation: Any package that provides a PSR-18 compatible HTTP client
• psr/http-factory-implementation: Any package that provides PSR-7 compatible HTTP message factories
• psr/http-message-implementation: Any package that provides PSR-7 HTTP messages

Development Package Requirements

• fig/log-test: PSR-3 logger implementation for testing purposes
• nyholm/psr7: PSR-7 HTTP message factory & message implementation
• phpunit/phpunit: Testing framework
• php-http/mock-client: HTTPlug mock client implementation
• phpstan/phpstan: Static analysis tool
• rector/rector: Automatic refactoring tool to help with PHP upgrades
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: Static analysis tool
• symfony/finder: file utility for loading pre-recorded web service responses

Installation

$ composer require dhl/sdk-api-unified-tracking

Uninstallation

$ composer remove dhl/sdk-api-unified-tracking

Testing

$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c test/phpunit.xml

Static code analysis

$ ./vendor/bin/phpstan --level=7 analyze ./src/

$ ./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=PSR12 src/ test/

Features

The DPDHL Group unified shipment tracking API SDK supports the following features:

• Fetch advanced information about a trackable shipment

Tracking Service

Fetch information about shipment status of a trackable shipment no matter which business unit of DHL is actually processing the shipment. Additional search parameters can be provided to narrow down possible search results.

Public API

The library's components suitable for consumption comprise

• service:
  • service factory
  • tracking service
• data transfer objects:
  • track information with detailed shipment events

Usage

<?php
$consumerKey = 'Your application consumer key';
$logger = new \Psr\Log\NullLogger();
$defaultTimeZone = new \DateTimeZone('Europe/Berlin'); // or date_default_timezone_get()
$trackingNumber = '9876543210';

$serviceFactory = new \Dhl\Sdk\UnifiedTracking\Service\ServiceFactory();
$service = $serviceFactory->createTrackingService($consumerKey, $logger, $defaultTimeZone);

$response = $service->retrieveTrackingInformation($trackingNumber);